tell us about your fancy rig…
It started life as a regular CZ 455 in 17 HMR. It was never very accurate so it hardly ever got used and when it did it was just at the range.
Last year while on a PD hunt in WY, there were PD everywhere at my first stop. I started off with the 20 VT and it worked well, but of course after some rounds down range, the dogs go back down and you have longer shots. I started thinking about the HMR again.
I ordered an MDT stock, Yankee Hill Arca rail,19" Lothar Walther barrel, Timney trigger and another bolt knob. The scope is a Hawke Sidewinder off a .22 rifle.
When I ordered the barrel from Lothar Walther, I requested the tenon to be a certain diameter with no barrel grub screw milled out. I received a call from the machinist/gunsmith from Lothar Walther just before he was going to turn the barrel. He was verifying that the dimensions I requested were correct. No one had sent him tenon dimensions before. When I got the barrel it was such a tight fit, it wouldn't go in the receiver hardly at all. This is what I wanted. I put the barrel in the freezer overnight and the receiver in the oven for a short period of time. As I was putting the two together, I used green loctite on the tennon and let it set up overnight.
After putting it all together, I headed to the range and it shot an easy sub MOA at 100 yards. It will be going again next year.
Using the suppressor I did lots of shooting from a few yards out to around 180 yards or so. The kill shot you see here is 163 yards. There was high grass and I would be able to see the PD a little above the grass, but I couldn't use my range finder on them.
The little 17 gr bullet makes quite a POP when it hits a PD. With the suppressor, you can hear every hit, even at distances over 100 yards.