I'm so excited that I just had to share. I recently bought a Remington 700 SPS Tactical and in the midst of getting that together, I built a new AR upper. I had two new toys to shoot today.
The AR in a Daniel Defense upper receiver, Spike's Tactical lower receiver, Douglass barrel (18" with rifle length gas system) profiled by Compass Lake and coated by Superior Barrels, the stock is a Magpul UBR, Geissele SSA-E trigger group and a Nightforce 2.5-10X32 in an American defense mount.
The Remington is pretty much stock out of the box, although I do have an HS Precision LTR stock coming and an HS detachable magazine kit coming as well. The scope is a Swarovski 4.5-18X44 on a Leupold one piece standard mount with medium rings.
That AR is a shooter. It REALLY liked the 77gr SMKs over 24gr of RL15. Good solid .8" groups. This thing shot SMOOTH. I really think the trigger and stock are holding me back. When I get some disposable income together, I'm going to go Magpul PRS and Geissele DMR.
What really surprised me and made me sick at the same time was that the .308 bolt gun was shooting one hole five shot groups out of the box. That Swarovski is nice. I was going to go with a the Nightforce 15X, but it's really heavy and BIG. I think the Swaro compliments the rifle nicely and I'm thinking that it has better glass, although I'm going to look more closely tomorrow when I go back to the range.
The AR in a Daniel Defense upper receiver, Spike's Tactical lower receiver, Douglass barrel (18" with rifle length gas system) profiled by Compass Lake and coated by Superior Barrels, the stock is a Magpul UBR, Geissele SSA-E trigger group and a Nightforce 2.5-10X32 in an American defense mount.
The Remington is pretty much stock out of the box, although I do have an HS Precision LTR stock coming and an HS detachable magazine kit coming as well. The scope is a Swarovski 4.5-18X44 on a Leupold one piece standard mount with medium rings.
That AR is a shooter. It REALLY liked the 77gr SMKs over 24gr of RL15. Good solid .8" groups. This thing shot SMOOTH. I really think the trigger and stock are holding me back. When I get some disposable income together, I'm going to go Magpul PRS and Geissele DMR.
What really surprised me and made me sick at the same time was that the .308 bolt gun was shooting one hole five shot groups out of the box. That Swarovski is nice. I was going to go with a the Nightforce 15X, but it's really heavy and BIG. I think the Swaro compliments the rifle nicely and I'm thinking that it has better glass, although I'm going to look more closely tomorrow when I go back to the range.