Deep Creek 25th anniversary rifle

[Alex Wheeler]

Bat was kind enough to donate an aluminum Neuvo to Deep Creek for the 25th anniversary championship match. The winner of that match had me put this rifle together for him on that action he won. Its a 6.5x47 which is suiting since thats what he used to win the action with. I inletted and pillar bedded the LRB stock, the first one in this color. Purple and orange, I really like it. Looks even better in person. Bix n Andy trigger, straight 1.250 Bartlien barrel. Its in its 22lb configuration right now. But its only a heavy varmint contour away from being a 17lb light gun again. Kind of a special build for me. I had been pushing for years to get an aluminum Bat. Almost had Bruce on board, then covid happened. Finally thanks to Chris Harris, it happened. I believe in the dampening of the aluminum, and lack of stress. Plus the time I spent at Deep Creek. The Deep Creek tracker and the fiberglass version which I called the LRB all have their roots at Deep Creek. Just a cool rifle, at least for me.

 

[InTraining]

Puts a smile on my face! Nicely done Alex, thanks!

 

[Northridge]

Pretty cool Darin Van, Darin bumped me for the Win last August Lol , I could not have been happier for Him, pretty cool History of many components that evolved or developed while your time At Deep Creek Alex. Really cool rifle as well looking forward to competing against rifle and Darin real soon as March is not far away.. thanks Bat machine and Bullet Central for the certificate

Shawn Williams

 

[InTraining]

Pretty cool Darin Van, Darin bumped me for the Win last August Lol , I could not have been happier for Him, pretty cool History of many components that evolved or developed while your time At Deep Creek Alex. Really cool rifle as well looking forward to competing against rifle and Darin real soon as March is not far away.. thanks Bat machine and Bullet Central for the certificate

Shawn Williams

It's on!

Yes, thanks everyone!

 

[6MMsteve]

Nice !!!!!!

 

[Evan]

Puts a smile on my face! Nicely done Alex, thanks!

Congrats, Darin! Im happy to see that you got the 6.5x47 working for you. I know you and I had talked on and off about our efforts with it.

 

[Jefferson]

nice bedding, do you paint that in

just kidding

pretty much perfect

 

[Jim Ziegler]

Wow! Gorgeous rifle! I bet it's a shooter!

 

[quest450]

you hit one out of the park again....Go Yankee$ Go !!!

 

[ShtrRdy]

VERY NICE!!!

 

[JBT47]

Beautiful rifle. Unbelievable bedding.

 

[Hal]

Alex

Another great looking build with top quality components.

Your bedding jobs deserves a purple ribbon. BEST of show.

Hal

 

[InTraining]

Bumping this up as she deserves another look!

Thanks again Alex, your attention to detail and the industry is noticed!

Thanks Shawn and Deep Creek, we got a great thing going!

Also, thank you Sponsors for the support, love being part of this industry!

Darin

 

[JPB3]

out of curiosity, what bedding compound do you use,, perfect job.. I
m excited to see an aluminum BAT!

 

[Jud96]

Beautiful rifle and great work as always. Those aluminum BATs are intriguing. I haven’t got to handle one in person yet, but I’d love to check one out one day. Nice work!

 

[LitLBoy]

WOW!

 

[DHuffman]

Very nice!

 

[J_idaho]

That is beautiful. Love the dark colors.

 

[JFrank]

@InTraining
Beautiful rifle Darin and congrats again on your win. Sorry I wasn’t there in person, I look forward to seeing you in a couple short months.

 

[ern.santos]

I believe in the dampening of the aluminum, and lack of stress.

I've seen this when calibrating both aluminium and stainless load cells on an Instron. There's more deflection on the aluminium load cells when doing a cal curve. There's something to your observation that aluminium actions agg better.