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Our shooting buddy known World Wide as Martini Bill just got back from work in Alabama and brought home his 1 of 50 of the first Anschutz 1727 APR Competition rifle to make to the United States. He ordered his with the much heavier steel forend and I believe he said it weighs a tad over 20 lbs. It has the 1.1 inch diameter 22 inches long. Nice might be a big time understatement, It has Anschutz's own designed stock this time and they have done their research and hit a Home Run with including everything that works. Lots of adjustments on the buttstock with a really nice height adjustable bag rider.
He shot it using some R50 he's been secretly hoarding from the rest of us and even with it being cold and a bit breezy it did quite well at 50 yards and 197 yards. We didn't take any group pictures, if it warms up next week we'll do that. Chris and I had out Izhmash 7-2 toggle guns down there and we did get some group pictures. Chris' is factory barrel with a suppresson and mine sports a long Shilen Ratchet barrel and both are in ARS aluminum chassis. Bill will have his hands full running with them but it'll probably end up we'll have our hands full trying to keep up at the long range matches. If all else fails I can fall back on my Anschutz Exemplar Pistol to keep Bill humble.
Not much else to say other than we were impressed with the quality and how well they addressed incorporating nearly everything we look for in a good long range setup. We're all running either an Arken 7-35 or DNT 7-35 which we think is nearly the perfect scope for this longrange game. Plenty of travel, excellent mechanics and glass good enough to move the small floating dot around on a 1 inch target at 200 yards with room to easily see all the edges.
He shot it using some R50 he's been secretly hoarding from the rest of us and even with it being cold and a bit breezy it did quite well at 50 yards and 197 yards. We didn't take any group pictures, if it warms up next week we'll do that. Chris and I had out Izhmash 7-2 toggle guns down there and we did get some group pictures. Chris' is factory barrel with a suppresson and mine sports a long Shilen Ratchet barrel and both are in ARS aluminum chassis. Bill will have his hands full running with them but it'll probably end up we'll have our hands full trying to keep up at the long range matches. If all else fails I can fall back on my Anschutz Exemplar Pistol to keep Bill humble.
Not much else to say other than we were impressed with the quality and how well they addressed incorporating nearly everything we look for in a good long range setup. We're all running either an Arken 7-35 or DNT 7-35 which we think is nearly the perfect scope for this longrange game. Plenty of travel, excellent mechanics and glass good enough to move the small floating dot around on a 1 inch target at 200 yards with room to easily see all the edges.
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