I just picked this up today, but we had it out over the weekend.
This is one of the newest ones off the line as far as I can tell. I had none of the issues reported with the earlier guns.
My initial impression is that the rifles amazingly light, but doesn't feel cheap or like a toy.
Its well fitted, accurate, and is an interesting piece of engineering, and that always appeals to me. It doesn't hurt that the things very attractive also.
On Saturday it came to the range and I set it up with a Burris Droptine 4.5-14x42, as seen here.
The ammo I had on hand was Eley Club, Eley Target, Armscor HVs, and a little bag of random .22s that had everything from stingers to sniper sub-sonics.
Accuracy with the Eley Club was very good, except for random fliers. 7-8 shots out of a 10rnd mag would go into pretty much the same hole, then I'd get a few 1/2"-3/4" away. Wasnt consistent on when it would do it, and its very possible it was me just failing to be consistent.
I shot @Mr.Revolverguy's challenge with this gun, and didn't do great.
The shot on 14 was there from sight in, and the one high on 22 was my first shot. I went left from there then up to 30 and back to 28.
Not a fantastic showing, but if you overlay the groups were still looking at a sub 1" for the 4 that didn't go all wonky. Again, not FANTASTIC, but pretty good considering the conditions and a choice of only 2 types of ammo.
There also wasn't a huge difference between the 16 dollar box of Eleys, and the 3 dollar box of Armscor.....this is only about 100rnds into the gun.
Function was 100%, everything that went into the gun left it with no issues.
The bolt runs fine, but IS noticeably stiffer to lock and unlock than my 457...which has a fantastic feeling action.
When I picked up the rifle today, I immediately installed the adapter to run my Spartan Jav on the rifle, as I do with almost all of the guns I own.
While doing the installation I noticed the stock is a very thin (maybe a tenth +/- of an inch thick) fiberglass and gel coat shell over a light but fairly hard/ridgid foam core.
My particular specimen weights in a 4.5lbs sans scope and ammo. With the Burris Timberline 4.5-14x32 which I'm pretty sure will be this guns constant companion, the whole rig weights 5.5lbs. I said earlier that its surprisingly light for not feeling like a toy, and ill stand by that. It feels GOOD in the hands, solid withought being heavy......don't know why that struck me as strange, but it did.
If I have ANY knock on the gun, its that its "ONLY" got a TriggerTech Field trigger as opposed to Primary like the Mesa and above carry. I adjusted it down to 2.5Lbs which is as low as the adjustments go, and it feels fantastic.....Par for the course with TriggerTech it seems.
I am going to have an aluminum brake made for the gun, simply because I like a bit more length on my barrels.....and while this ones very accurate, the short tube doesn't look right to me.
I hope to have the gun out again on Saturday, so hopefully a bit more through a work out.
This is one of the newest ones off the line as far as I can tell. I had none of the issues reported with the earlier guns.
My initial impression is that the rifles amazingly light, but doesn't feel cheap or like a toy.
Its well fitted, accurate, and is an interesting piece of engineering, and that always appeals to me. It doesn't hurt that the things very attractive also.
On Saturday it came to the range and I set it up with a Burris Droptine 4.5-14x42, as seen here.
The ammo I had on hand was Eley Club, Eley Target, Armscor HVs, and a little bag of random .22s that had everything from stingers to sniper sub-sonics.
Accuracy with the Eley Club was very good, except for random fliers. 7-8 shots out of a 10rnd mag would go into pretty much the same hole, then I'd get a few 1/2"-3/4" away. Wasnt consistent on when it would do it, and its very possible it was me just failing to be consistent.
I shot @Mr.Revolverguy's challenge with this gun, and didn't do great.
The shot on 14 was there from sight in, and the one high on 22 was my first shot. I went left from there then up to 30 and back to 28.
Not a fantastic showing, but if you overlay the groups were still looking at a sub 1" for the 4 that didn't go all wonky. Again, not FANTASTIC, but pretty good considering the conditions and a choice of only 2 types of ammo.
There also wasn't a huge difference between the 16 dollar box of Eleys, and the 3 dollar box of Armscor.....this is only about 100rnds into the gun.
Function was 100%, everything that went into the gun left it with no issues.
The bolt runs fine, but IS noticeably stiffer to lock and unlock than my 457...which has a fantastic feeling action.
When I picked up the rifle today, I immediately installed the adapter to run my Spartan Jav on the rifle, as I do with almost all of the guns I own.
While doing the installation I noticed the stock is a very thin (maybe a tenth +/- of an inch thick) fiberglass and gel coat shell over a light but fairly hard/ridgid foam core.
My particular specimen weights in a 4.5lbs sans scope and ammo. With the Burris Timberline 4.5-14x32 which I'm pretty sure will be this guns constant companion, the whole rig weights 5.5lbs. I said earlier that its surprisingly light for not feeling like a toy, and ill stand by that. It feels GOOD in the hands, solid withought being heavy......don't know why that struck me as strange, but it did.
If I have ANY knock on the gun, its that its "ONLY" got a TriggerTech Field trigger as opposed to Primary like the Mesa and above carry. I adjusted it down to 2.5Lbs which is as low as the adjustments go, and it feels fantastic.....Par for the course with TriggerTech it seems.
I am going to have an aluminum brake made for the gun, simply because I like a bit more length on my barrels.....and while this ones very accurate, the short tube doesn't look right to me.
I hope to have the gun out again on Saturday, so hopefully a bit more through a work out.
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