New competition precision rifle

USO has a left-handed windage option but it's not listed on the website. It's kind of an "ask if you're in the know" thing.

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actually, USO has a new website which doesn't suck, although the performance makes me think their server might be riding around on the back of a goat somewhere in Eritrea.

you can configure left/right windage in their new configurator.

man, my old 29" bbl + 9" suppressor 260AI has been rebarreled... i targeted 26" and it got screwed up, and wound up a little shorter. and the cuts kept coming off the chamber end so my taper starts right at the friggin action. i have no idea if the thing will shoot or not. i'll find out tonight i guess

OK PRS is going to be ugly.

it's sitting on the floor in front of me. i keep feeling like i should fill out SBR paperwork on it.

Did you say you won that? That is so cool.

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only the chassis and a $2000 gift cert towards a USO scope.

you should come out and shoot matches! everybody usually wins something. at most matches with prize tables, i'd guess the top half of the shooters win something worth more than the cost of their entry fee/trip.

BUT... the cool thing is, the prize table is where all the interesting new products are for display. so you get to handle all kinds of stuff before you decide to buy something.

vaupet, very cool. i won't know ballistics until i get a load worked up. i'm hoping to shoot the 115g DTAC at about 3040fps though.

my USO scope won't be done for a long time, so I bought a S&B instead. not lefty obviously. Got the folder hardware on there too...

here's some pics

couple of weekends under my belt (and by 'couple' i mean 2). i had forgotten what a PITA sorting out a new gun can be. new action, new bbl, new scope, new rings, new caliber, new dies, etc etc... sooo many things to go wrong and it seems half of them have. i think i've been to "the range" prob 15 times in the past week shooting 5-10 rounds per trip. ugh. very very frustrating.

finally started coming together yesterday and today though, after i'd had enough saturday and swapped barrels and took a dremel to the bedding. also destroyed 100 pc of brass.

finally got a decent zero. good news is... it's shooting flat and accurate and recoil is everything i'd hoped. can easily see my own trace at 500 yards. i shot a 5 round group on paper without ever taking my eyes off the target and without the crosshair moving more than 1 mil from the dot through recoil or while running the bolt. i'm excited.

i'm warming up the to XLR as well. it was really irritating at first, because i thought i had it adjusted but it didn't really fit me. after i figured out what i'd done and got it properly adjusted, i am pretty happy with it. it's actually a good thing i put the folder hardware in there, which extends the tube about 2 inches. Without it, I would have been right at the end of the adjustment.

also shot it off shooting sticks and it was super-easy. so much lighter weight than my previous match rifle. I can't wait to weight this setup. definitely several lbs lighter, and better balanced.

of course, i haven't shot a match yet, but currently, the only problem i have with the XLR, is the the bottom of the butt is like a blade. it doesn't float on fluffy rear bags like an macmillan A5 or manners T4A does, but cuts right down (see pic). I may have to switch to a heavy sand bag instead of the super-light poly fill, or figure out how to put a skid plate on the bottom of the butt to make it wider.

i REALLY love the MSR reticle from S&B. huge improvement over the P4F that i've been using. that tiny gap in the lines .5 mils from the center of the crosshair makes a huge difference for me today. i'm using the milling reticle on the low left a lot too. it's SO much easier to use than the stupid .2 hashes on the edges of the reticle.

so far, not terribly happy with the spuhr mounts. i can't see the stupid bubble level without moving my head off scope. i trust they'll keep the scope in place though. it does seem well made.

lot of work to do though...

Peter, you are right that it is not on S&B's page, but you can purchase it directly from them. check out this page for info about the reticle http://www.finnaccuracy.com/sb_pm2_MSR_special_reticle_en.html

and yes, haha just 100 yards. no need to sell anything!

Was this inleted for your action? yes

Did you do any additional bedding beyond just dropping it in? yes, skim bed (gunsmith did it, not me personally)

Before you added the folder hardware, would a cleaning rod clear the stock? don't think so but don't remember.



btw, since you bumped it... this project has been a complete disaster. the gun will put a few in the same hole, then move around 2+ inches. i've replaced everything except the action body and can't get this thing to shoot. it's going back to the gunsmith or will be busted up and components sold off. i went from a 10th place finish and 2 4th places finishes in PRS matches with my old rifle to finish the year with 3 30-40th place finishes with this new gun. ugh!

i switched the xlr chassis out and put a rock solid chassis in. still shoots like crap, so it wasn't the xlr chassis. i'm grasping at straws but my best guess is the problem was the barrel reamer now

btw, i have cool plans for my xlr chassis. going to build a 300blk using a 16" accuracy international covert barrel, with a custom suppressor

here's a pic of what it looks like in the rock solid stock for comparison. pretty, but still doesn't shoot




most anything that shoots a heavy 6mm would be a good competition gun. the exact cartridge comes down to brass availability. most of the good ones are very similar (almost same length, 30* shoulder, 6mm). They'll vary +- a grain of powder capacity. and it comes down to brass availability and cost. And they start to get pretty nuanced. for instance, 6x47L uses small rifle primers where all the 308win based cartridges (e.g. 243win) don't. 6 creedmoor is a worth a look. 260rem/AI and 6.5CM are good choices as well. more energy, more recoil, little harder to pick up trace or maintain a position to see your impacts or take a followup shot when you're not prone