Finally got it done. Had a few hick ups along the way. When we changed out the bolt head to a mag bolt head, we didn't know that we needed to change out the firing pin as well. A few days later we got the parts and had it up and running. I wasn't going to post about it until I had some groups to show off, but I had some time to kill.
Right now I'm running some 140 A Max out of it with 60 gr H1000. I will get the chrony set up the next time I head out to do some more barrel break in done. I'm hoping that I can push a 140 something in the 3200 fps range. I might try to find some 130 or 140 VLD. I would really like to get my hands on some 129 ABLR, but I 'll shoot what I can. I'm running H1000 out of it now. I haven't worked up any loads for testing yet, just screwing around getting the barrel broke in. The Benchmark barrel has a 1:8 twist so hopefully Nosler will come out with a 140 ABLR sometime. I think that that would be a pretty dang cool combination.
I put a 20 MOA Extreme Hardcore Gear base on it. It has an anti cant level built into the back of the rail. I'm not super happy with how high the scope is off the rifle. I used medium Warren Maxima rings, thinking I can get away with Lows. But I want to wait to change it up until I figure out what optics I want to put on it. Right now it is running the VXIII 6.5-20x50 off of my STW.
Can't wait to get this up and dialed in. Got a few spots on the farm that a guy can shoot at yotes as far as he wants to.
