Dthunter
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Hello Fellow Shooters/Hunters/Tactical shooters!
I had the rare opportunity to purchase a Cadex Defence Systems Chassis. It was in the standard flat black (I prefer the Dark Earth), but beggars can't be choosers! LOL!
Upon opening the product box, it was apparent that this isn't your garden variety Chassis system! Visually and physically it is obviously very well designed and built!
I decided to Install my barrelled action from a Rem700, Sendero II in 7mm Rem. Mag. The shiny Stainless really stands out against the flat black of the chassis! I will remedy that soon enough.
The nature of the flat black finish made it hard to get a nice sharp/focused picture from my I-Phone. Hope these pictures give it a good representation of its features.
I took the chassis system out to give it a try, and had some bad fortune! My Leupold 6.5-20X40 VXIII scope failed to adjust the point of impact at all! The internal workings are pooched! AGAIN! This is the second time with this very scope!
Every other Leupold I have had has been switched a hundred times and never failed to work flawlessly! Back to Korth it will go AGAIN!
Upon my returning home, I decided to mount the only other spare scope in my inventory. A Bushnell 3200, 5-15X40 Tactical. I KNOW!....... I KNOW!......., Its a cheap scope to put on a chassis system like this, but these little scopes have seriously surprised me in the past! Until I can get the Leuplod back and upgrade it, this will have to do.
I was sitting back looking at my Chassis with the Bushnell scope and thinking that the flat black would look better with some kind of breakup patterns on it. SOOooooo, I let the idea troll have a run at this one! I decided to attach some camouflage duct tape to see what the chassis would look like if I got it professionally painted in a cams pattern like real tree. I went to Home Depot, and grabbed some flat matte duct tap and went at it. This is the stuff.
As I laid the tape loosely onto the rifle, I used a pointed tool (a 180 grain .284 VLD Berger Bullet, LOL!), I pressed the tape tightly into the valleys and machined edges. Kind of ironed/pressed and stretched it into place. It tended to take two or three times pressing it into place to have the tape stay in place. To my surprise, it started to look fairly good! So I continued till the whole rifle was done. So what do you guys think? This is certainly a very cheap and easily changeable way to camp a rifle! As long as we can find a decent quality Flat/matte finished tape, your off to the races.
Here is a picture when I was just starting the camouflage job.
I even covered the magazine (just the visible part). Still functions flawlessly.
A few more pictures of various angles to highlight the features of the chassis system.
Sorry in advance about the picture orientation! I am not the best photographer.
A pic With flash:
Without flash:
A few more pictures to round the views off:
Hope you guys liked the post! Now all I have to do is get back out there and get this system shooting on point of aim and dialed in as far as my optics allow! I can hardly wait!
I will post some results when they come available.
I had the rare opportunity to purchase a Cadex Defence Systems Chassis. It was in the standard flat black (I prefer the Dark Earth), but beggars can't be choosers! LOL!
Upon opening the product box, it was apparent that this isn't your garden variety Chassis system! Visually and physically it is obviously very well designed and built!
I decided to Install my barrelled action from a Rem700, Sendero II in 7mm Rem. Mag. The shiny Stainless really stands out against the flat black of the chassis! I will remedy that soon enough.
The nature of the flat black finish made it hard to get a nice sharp/focused picture from my I-Phone. Hope these pictures give it a good representation of its features.
I took the chassis system out to give it a try, and had some bad fortune! My Leupold 6.5-20X40 VXIII scope failed to adjust the point of impact at all! The internal workings are pooched! AGAIN! This is the second time with this very scope!
Every other Leupold I have had has been switched a hundred times and never failed to work flawlessly! Back to Korth it will go AGAIN!
Upon my returning home, I decided to mount the only other spare scope in my inventory. A Bushnell 3200, 5-15X40 Tactical. I KNOW!....... I KNOW!......., Its a cheap scope to put on a chassis system like this, but these little scopes have seriously surprised me in the past! Until I can get the Leuplod back and upgrade it, this will have to do.
I was sitting back looking at my Chassis with the Bushnell scope and thinking that the flat black would look better with some kind of breakup patterns on it. SOOooooo, I let the idea troll have a run at this one! I decided to attach some camouflage duct tape to see what the chassis would look like if I got it professionally painted in a cams pattern like real tree. I went to Home Depot, and grabbed some flat matte duct tap and went at it. This is the stuff.
As I laid the tape loosely onto the rifle, I used a pointed tool (a 180 grain .284 VLD Berger Bullet, LOL!), I pressed the tape tightly into the valleys and machined edges. Kind of ironed/pressed and stretched it into place. It tended to take two or three times pressing it into place to have the tape stay in place. To my surprise, it started to look fairly good! So I continued till the whole rifle was done. So what do you guys think? This is certainly a very cheap and easily changeable way to camp a rifle! As long as we can find a decent quality Flat/matte finished tape, your off to the races.
Here is a picture when I was just starting the camouflage job.
I even covered the magazine (just the visible part). Still functions flawlessly.
A few more pictures of various angles to highlight the features of the chassis system.
Sorry in advance about the picture orientation! I am not the best photographer.
A pic With flash:
Without flash:
A few more pictures to round the views off:
Hope you guys liked the post! Now all I have to do is get back out there and get this system shooting on point of aim and dialed in as far as my optics allow! I can hardly wait!
I will post some results when they come available.
