Incredible Results New Nosler Liberty

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American Craftmanship at its finest. It was so satisfying landing a winner after having to send back the past 2 $1000 rifles I bought. The Remington 5R HS Precision had a cracked stock and wouldn't feed. The Christiansen Arms Mesa 6.5 PRC wouldn't eject. I upped my game an landed this gem. With Nosler match ammo, it's truly stunning!

Here's a what the holes look like at 50 yards.

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Heck yeah bud. I'll bet that'll mess a deer slap up.

Then my best 100 yard group. One inch target dot.

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I've got one in .270W that I got on new on Gunbroker for $950, I guess no one wanted the antique caliber :D.

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It's a pretty solid rifle and has replaced my Steyr MOD M Professional, it's accurate, reasonably lightweight, with a decent trigger.

I set it up to be my open country whitetail/mulie rig. With a Leupold VX6HD 2-12x42 with CDS and FireDot BDC, LW Talley rings and VTAC LW sling in weighs in at 8lbs. I get 3180FPS out of the 24" barrel with 130 Nosler ABs and H4831SC and it will consistently hold 3 in about 3/4MOA and 5 in just about 1 MOA.

The 24" barrel's pretty thin, somewhere between a sporter and light sporter profile, so it heats up pretty quick. I've taken the combination out to 545yds on steel and it remains well within "minute of deer".

A friend of mine has two of them; one in .270WSM and .300WSM, both shoot very well.
 
Chuck R. said:
I've got one in .270W that I got on new on Gunbroker for $950, I guess no one wanted the antique caliber :D.

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It's a pretty solid rifle and has replaced my Steyr MOD M Professional, it's accurate, reasonably lightweight, with a decent trigger.

I set it up to be my open country whitetail/mulie rig. With a Leupold VX6HD 2-12x42 with CDS and FireDot BDC, LW Talley rings and VTAC LW sling in weighs in at 8lbs. I get 3180FPS out of the 24" barrel with 130 Nosler ABs and H4831SC and it will consistently hold 3 in about 3/4MOA and 5 in just about 1 MOA.

The 24" barrel's pretty thin, somewhere between a sporter and light sporter profile, so it heats up pretty quick. I've taken the combination out to 545yds on steel and it remains well within "minute of deer".

A friend of mine has two of them; one in .270WSM and .300WSM, both shoot very well.
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The rifle feels absolutely perfect in hand. While the shape of the trigger is a bit weird, it breaks just right. I bought one box of 105 grain factory ammo. The bolt is really hard to close on it. I am anxious to see what Nosler finds when they get it back. The oblongation of the target impact tells me that it's not stabilizing the bullets. I am wondering if they gave it a 243 twist.

What scope is that? A VX5-HD? If I can get the results I want out of this rifle, I am going to treat it to a VX5. I am thinking about going with the firedot.
 
dranrab said:
The rifle feels absolutely perfect in hand. While the shape of the trigger is a bit weird, it breaks just right. I bought one box of 105 grain factory ammo. The bolt is really hard to close on it. I am anxious to see what Nosler finds when they get it back. The oblongation of the target impact tells me that it's not stabilizing the bullets. I am wondering if they gave it a 243 twist.
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I take it they sent you a return label? Something's definitely amiss with it.

My understanding is the Liberty's have Pacnor barrels on them. Mine appears to have been lapped as it cleans up really well with just wet patches and a borescope showed no ugly tool marks. Unlike some barrels it's shot pretty well from the get-go rather than having to settle in. I did barrel break-in with 130 Sierras and have only developed 2 loads for it; 130 Nosler BTs for practice and the 130ABs for hunting.

3rds at 100:
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5rds at 220yards (black circle is 2"):

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Hopefully they get it sorted out pronto!
 
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What scope is that? A VX5-HD? If I can get the results I want out of this rifle, I am going to treat it to a VX5. I am thinking about going with the firedot.
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Sorry, missed your question, the scope is a VX6HD with Firedot BDC. I've left the CDS dial in MOA, rather than specific cartridge and the holdover dot values are close, so I've made a dope chart and taped it to the side of the stock. Here's the actual drop due to my 3180 FPS:

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Chuck, how do you like the firedot when it's off? Is it fine enough for precision?

I found out yesterday that the rifle had issues, so it'll be Monday before I get in touch with Nosler. I feel confident they'll provide a shipping label.
 
It's thin enough when off, the only issue I've had with it is when it's on too bright, just like an RDS, it looks HUGE. I leave mine at the lowest setting.

Target precision and tiny groups I'd probably want something thinner, hunting precision when needing to see the crosshairs in low light, IMHO just about perfect. Nice feature with the VX6HD is it has a blinking cant feature to let you know if your canted. The "move on" feature also works very well.
 
That’s frustrating for sure at any price. I spent a few minutes on a RAR this week sorting out action, trigger, and accuracy issues. Wouldn’t feed, would double feed, wouldn’t chamber, 7+ lbs. trigger pull, and shotgun effect. Today it was punching near MOA from 50-200 yards.

While I too have yet to see a Liberty in the wild I love all things Nosler I have come in contact with so I’m sure they’ll straighten things out. I can empathize none the less that for the price it did not ship that way to begin with.
 
As a rifle shooting guy for many decades, my mind asks the question of what happens/ what changes for the second 50 yards of the round’s trajectory to open up like that - I have never experienced that kind of accuracy change from 50 to 100 yards - very strange stuff.
 
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