The holy grail of tactical rifles ships to my ffl today.

[nvbroncrider]

M82 Barett in 50 BMG!!

 

[Guy Miner]

 

[Woodycreek]

Jeff told me its a pink .22 LR. He just needs some ammo :mrgreen:

 

[bullet]

Sako TRG 338 Lapua

 

[bullet]

Guy, you got a great sense of humor, Love it! :lol:

 

[usmc 89]

Ok, best reason why you need a bi-pod in my opinion wins. I just closed the deal on a ACCURACY INTERNATIONAL ARTIC WARFARE in 260 rem. Rifle has 86 rounds through it and is flawless. They dont offer this overseas in 260 the barrel work was done by dave tooley. Stock has every option available with butt spike. I will post pictures when i get them to brian ha.

 

[gerry]

A 260 Rem is always a good choice can't wait to see how it looks. The Lapua brass is nice hopefully you can find some.

 

[usmc 89]

I have 400 pieces of it. You guys can go to snipershide and see it on the rifles for sale section under avvuracy international AIAW 260 rem for sale by dbransco. He has better pics than i can take. I bought the whole kut.

 

[C.Smith]

I least got the rifle brand right? Just kidding. Sounds like a fun rifle for sure.

Corey

 

[JD338]

I least got the rifle brand right? Just kidding. Sounds like a fun rifle for sure.

Corey

And I got the 260 Rem right.

Congratulations Jeff

JD338

 

[usmc 89]

Contrary to my posts i can spell, but i think you get the jist of it. Looking to upgrade the phone after i recover from this last engagement.

 

[usmc 89]

C.smith and jd, you are the two finalists, closest guess to actual weight with scope, bipod, sling and magazine empty wins. Not listing components in order to keep it a guess.

 

[257 Ackley]

Just looked at the rifle on SH...SWEET! Looking forward to seeing it sometime this year and shooting some steel at your range. You planning on using the 130 JLK or are you going with heavier bullets?

 

[SJB358]

Yeah, that rifle is very awesome.

Kinda seems you have a 6.5 affliction Jeff! HA!

 

[Guy Miner]

I got a little trigger time with the Accuracy International in 7.62. Very stable from prone. Didn't particularly care for the stock design from sitting, but that's probably just me. Well made. Tight. Gummed up in the blowing dust faster than the Remington and quit functioning while the Rem kept working.

Still, it was impressive, and VERY accurate. Felt recoil was pretty much nothing, it just stayed right on target while shooting.

Guy

 

[usmc 89]

Thanks scott, joel i will be using the 140 bergers i am thinking. Guy explain "quit" , i have a bat action that gums up but never quits? I thoought AI kind of had a reputation for being reliable and bullet proof, hence the fact 63 countries use them as a primary sniper rifle. Weird.

 

[Guy Miner]

Sure - it was one heck of a dust storm blowing hard out at the Army Training Center in Yakima Washington one spring. Cold. March or April as I recall. Thick storm of very fine dust, likely ground up that way by the passing of many military vehicles on nearby dirt roads. For a dry day, it was one of the most miserable range days I've ever experienced. At times it was impossible to see more than 40 or 50 yards because of the blowing dust.

I was teaching at the a SWAT sniper school. It's interesting teaching there, in part because there's a wide variety of rifles that show up, instead of at a military sniper school where oftentimes everyone is shooting the same rifle/scope/ammo combination.

The fine dust was getting into everything. We were trying to wrap our scopes and actions in t-shirts and towels to keep as much of it out as possible.

Eventually the dust bound up the bolts on the AI's and they couldn't be used anymore without removing the bolt and wiping them down - which was difficult if not impossible to do under those conditions. The sloppy ol' Remingtons kept banging away, though they too had difficulty eventually.

We didn't have any semi-auto rifles at the class then. They were rare in police circles since the bolt guns work so well. Would have been interesting to see how they held up to the blowing dust as well.

We had one heck of a rifle-cleaning party that night. Everything got torn down, cleaned, and carefully reassembled, without the dust!

That was the only "weakness" if you even want to term it as such, that I've seen with the AI rifles. They're very well designed and well built. And EXPENSIVE! :mrgreen:

On reflection - I don't know if the guys with the AI rifles used more lube on their bolts than the Remington shooters or not. That could make all the difference of course. I'd prefer to simply run a bolt gun dry in conditions like that, and not give the dust any lube to settle in.

Guy

 

[usmc 89]

Ah, that makes alot more sense, thanks for the info.

 

[ScreaminEagle]

I have 400 pieces of it. You guys can go to snipershide and see it on the rifles for sale section under avvuracy international AIAW 260 rem for sale by dbransco. He has better pics than i can take. I bought the whole kut.

Damm!!! First thing i did was go to the Hide and check out what was being posted up. I looked right at that thread, but didn't think that was the one! :roll:

 

[usmc 89]

I ordered a set of aics skins for it today, will have the same pistol grip as the ax style does. I like the ax but the barrel shroud outs the scope up a bit high.