carlsbad
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Last weekend I was finishing up a new barrel on a friend's Accuracy International Arctic Warfare for a match. Got it done about 3pm on Saturday. He wanted me to to shoot the local PRS match with him so I started reloading and watching the basketball game. About 830 I realized I needed to move my 6xc from my benchrest stock to a chassis for belly shooting, aka prone. Well, I had several projects out on my bench and didn't have room to do it right. Late night, long day, taking shortcuts.
I put it into one chassis and realized the SEB Joystick I wanted to use wouldn't mount easily on that chassis. Also, the trigger wouldn't catch on the sear. I laid the barreled action aside and went to get a different chassis and on the way back I heard clanking noise as the barreled action (with scope) fell off the bench. It landed on the eyepiece with the screwed-in cover on. The cover was jammed in so hard I had to tape up the scope and use channel locks to get it off.
I figured out the trigger was bad, a screw was backed out and disappeared. Since I had a project in the barrel vise, the easiest way to change the trigger was to take the scope off and clamp the action in the bench vise. Changed the trigger, put the scope back on, put it in a different chassis and went to bed about 1030.
Next morning at the range I checked the zero an 100 yards and it was 1/8" high.
For this match there was no warmup at any range other than 100 yards so check the zero was it. Range distances were 300 to 700 yards with a crosswind building to 10+ mph. I got some lucky wind calls (guesses) and hit 16 of 19 targets. There were 35 shooters there and lots of $10,000+ setups so I expected there were scores better than mine. I was putting my rifle away when the Match Official came over to tell me there was a tie--top score was 16 and the tie was me and my buddy. To be fair, he had a late night the night before and missed one target by shooting the right gong when he was supposed to shoot the left gong. And he hit it right in the center. Anyway, they gave me the 1st because I hit the last target, head shot on the 700 yd silhouette. Had 4moa of wind in for 10mph and decided at the last minute to hold just off his left ear. My buddy missed just right as the wind kept increasing.
He was shooting the most powerful rifle there, 300 norma Magnum, and I was shooting the least powerful, 6xc. I was the only rifle without a muzzle brake. LOL. When it became known that I had built/barreled both winning rifles I suddenly got very popular. But I'm not taking work at this time outside of friends and family.
The scope obviously performed flawlessly and I was very impressed that it held the zero through the drop.
--Jerry
Ps. The barrel is a 30" bartlein HV. Several pounds.
I put it into one chassis and realized the SEB Joystick I wanted to use wouldn't mount easily on that chassis. Also, the trigger wouldn't catch on the sear. I laid the barreled action aside and went to get a different chassis and on the way back I heard clanking noise as the barreled action (with scope) fell off the bench. It landed on the eyepiece with the screwed-in cover on. The cover was jammed in so hard I had to tape up the scope and use channel locks to get it off.
I figured out the trigger was bad, a screw was backed out and disappeared. Since I had a project in the barrel vise, the easiest way to change the trigger was to take the scope off and clamp the action in the bench vise. Changed the trigger, put the scope back on, put it in a different chassis and went to bed about 1030.
Next morning at the range I checked the zero an 100 yards and it was 1/8" high.
For this match there was no warmup at any range other than 100 yards so check the zero was it. Range distances were 300 to 700 yards with a crosswind building to 10+ mph. I got some lucky wind calls (guesses) and hit 16 of 19 targets. There were 35 shooters there and lots of $10,000+ setups so I expected there were scores better than mine. I was putting my rifle away when the Match Official came over to tell me there was a tie--top score was 16 and the tie was me and my buddy. To be fair, he had a late night the night before and missed one target by shooting the right gong when he was supposed to shoot the left gong. And he hit it right in the center. Anyway, they gave me the 1st because I hit the last target, head shot on the 700 yd silhouette. Had 4moa of wind in for 10mph and decided at the last minute to hold just off his left ear. My buddy missed just right as the wind kept increasing.
He was shooting the most powerful rifle there, 300 norma Magnum, and I was shooting the least powerful, 6xc. I was the only rifle without a muzzle brake. LOL. When it became known that I had built/barreled both winning rifles I suddenly got very popular. But I'm not taking work at this time outside of friends and family.
The scope obviously performed flawlessly and I was very impressed that it held the zero through the drop.
--Jerry
Ps. The barrel is a 30" bartlein HV. Several pounds.
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