40X Repeater Options

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Got my rifle back from Jonathan Elrod in m AICS stock. New PTG bolt and replaced stock barrel with Benchmark 26 MTU barrel- yep, heavy. Knew I should go shorter, Hoser told me to go shorter, but between what I found in stock and keeping the original look, this is what I ended up with.



On my first visit to the range I and had some feeding issues. Luck would have it that the three mags I had taken were the three worst out of the ten I have. One would not feed the last round. When I looked closer, the follower wasn't standing as tall as the others, pulling down on the grips and letting the follower snap up didn't fix it. Stripped the mag, reassembled it and now it sits like the rest, haven't had a chance to re-test it. One mag labelled 'goofy' won't lock into the AICS. Will run the mags the next time I go to see if they behave better. Matt/Ravage88 has already offered to swap the mags.

On the range today, all the rest of mags fed fine, a few slicker/better than others, but all got the rounds in without any deformation to the bullets. I think some of how slick the feeding is depends on how the bearing section of the bullet is. Tight, short match chamber and a little 'crud' or ruffle in the back third of the bullet.



Jonathan had mentioned that it liked Lapua Center X, and he wasn't lying.



But it didn't like Eley Club or Target- Except for that first group with Eley Club right after shooting Lapua- maybe they need to use Lapua's wax formula....



Shot ten rounds of Center X and then shot some Midas+. While it likes Lapua Center X, it loved Midas +:



Ran out of time on the range, and the guy next to me was intermittently shooting his AR off the bench vibrating the crap out of my sight picture. The BSA 3-14 is an OK scope, but it isn't as clear as it could be and the shadow at 15x was an issue till I turned it down a bit. Going to put my Premier 3-15 on there for my next visit to try out some more ammos. I have a bunch of different Eley ammos. Just want to see, but the Lapua seems to shoot really well.

Already picking up some feedback about trigger control and putting pressure on the gun. Shot at BlueCore since it was raining, and I barely have any blood left from the mosquitoes at CRC the last time I went.


Jonathan Elrod did a great job and worked through some issues with the base gun with me. Always helpful and ready to talk, he made the conversion easy. Really pleased with it. Started scratching down how much I have in the gun, and decided that its worth a lot smiles, with out getting down to dollars. Plus it was spread out.