The "Perfect" Lightweight Stalking Rifle
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Smellydog
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And no mod
My Christensen Arms, Super light. Carbon Fibre wrapped match barrel. Remington 700 derived action. I ended up putting a S&B PMII on it and still it is super light. Also changed the magazine floor plate / magazine with a 10 shot aftermarket one for use in Mcqueens. The original was a Carbon fibre 3 shot magazine . I ended up winning a Sporting Rifle comp with it in the Phoenix 2019 at Bisley 100/200/300 yards standing, sitting and prone. 308 win . Love it!
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Good luck. I read that some of the Kimber Montanas over here (5+ yrs ago)had accuracy issues only finally sorted by importers rebarrelling them. The blued/wood versions ok.
Obviously being lightweight makes accuracy shooting more challenging.
Let us know how you get on with it.
TI Hunter
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Blaser R8 6.5x284 Norma, 120 pro hunter & 120gr nosler BTIP, A-Tec mod, S&B 8x56As the dark winter evenings draw in and whisky fuelled fire side chats drift towards "what would be your ideal stalking gun"...….I have IMHO found what I consider to be my perfect "Go To" stalking rifle!
The brief was.....Must be light enough to haul up and down the Scottish hill all day, short enough to scramble through Dorset heathland gorse and New Forest birch thickets. Must be able to shoot effectively out to 400m, must be able to launch a 120-160 grain bullet at reasonable speeds to knock down all of the UK species and a cheeky pig or two if needed. Must look sexy (Obviously!) and mustn't cost my other arm and leg ( the other two being spend on an R8)
So a trip to The Dasherman...….. a second hand shot-out T3, a 20" Bartlein barrel, an Atec Hertz can, a lightweight hunter PSE stock from Edi, a set of Talley rings, a spray of graphite black cerakote, a twirl of a router along the bolt, a Swaro 5-30 x 50 on top, and VIOLA !!!
Weighing in at a tad over 7.5lbs fully loaded...…... my 7mm-08 "Hill & Heathland" machine!
Christened with a Dorset muntjac, followed by a roe buck, fallow buck, sika stag and dragged up to a wet Scotland for a red hind.
Pushing a 140gr Interbond at 2800fps it drops everything its hit so far!
A HUGE thanks to Neil for making it happen....Its all I could have dreamed off and exactly what we set out to achieve!
Happy Bunny !!!
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I’ve tried a few rifles & this one will be staying
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alberta boy
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I have heard of some issues in the past . Apparently , there were some rifles that had receiver rings that were cut out of square years ago . I haven't seen any issues with the ones I've shot , hopefully that trend will continue with this one . It is a light weight , a consistent 1 MOA grouping will be fine . It's going to warm up this week , we'll see how it shoots
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I have both R8 Pro, and Pro Success, in synthetic, neither are lightweight, if anything, I'd say on the heavy side.
Since the forecast was dry for this morning, I decided to take the K95 out, because whilst I've shot a fox, and muntjac with it, I didn't feel it had been properly christened.
It took a fallow this morning, so happy now ! Just need to take a picture in the field, rather than on a desk
Since the forecast was dry for this morning, I decided to take the K95 out, because whilst I've shot a fox, and muntjac with it, I didn't feel it had been properly christened.
It took a fallow this morning, so happy now ! Just need to take a picture in the field, rather than on a desk
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