AB TAC

thank god i do not have your skills or a cnc shop as it would bankrupt me and probably end my marrige.i would be tinkering all day long.looks great pal. Thanks mate, taken a year of in between existing jobs, but just about made it, Im dying to try the 1.5 mm firing pin throw, already under pressure to make them and got a country interested in a lot of them, and I haven't even fired it yet, as they say no rest for the wicked,

Hi Guys been a while since I have posted anything, I've been busy building this, I figured you might be interested to see what you can do with a large CNC workshop, the barrel is a 28 inch heavy varminter from Walther, and everything but the barrel and the trigger I made, if everything goes ok with the proofing, I will try it for a bit then switch the barrel to a medium weight 260 rem and it will be my new varmint gun for when i go to Russia, weight is currently 14lbs and I haven't made the hinge for the folding stock yet, but with a normal 26 inch varmint barrel it will be around 10 to 10.5 l

dont mean to be funny mate but i would like to see that. the world record for a 5 shot group is just under a inch at 600 yards. and this is with a custom 6.5-284 which as you no is a bench rest rifle. The record is just over an inch at 1000 yards. That's 10 rounds not 3 or 5. and i seem to remember it was a light bench rest fired from a prone position with a rest and bag, and i will add, don't go thinking a 6.5-284 is the be all and end all of calibers, you don't need a barrel burner to get accuracy, or for that matter good performance. a bog standard 6.5-08 A square better known as a 260

Ive heard some crap but that just about tops it the crap is most of the people here haven't a clue what their guns are capable of, if you new anything about your guns and how they are made they you wouldn't be making silly comments, but if you want to waste your money on blueprinting that's up to you, as it is any gun will shoot better than you can, you look at this or that on a rifle, the bedding, the crown, trigger, bolt lock up surfaces, and the list goes on, you bolt any gun down to immovable object and fire it, then see how it performs, think you would be surprised at the accurac

dont mean to be funny mate but i would like to see that. the world record for a 5 shot group is just under a inch at 600 yards. and this is with a custom 6.5-284 which as you no is a bench rest rifle. The record is just over an inch at 1000 yards. That's 10 rounds not 3 or 5. and i seem to remember it was a light bench rest fired from a prone position with a rest and bag, and i will add, don't go thinking a 6.5-284 is the be all and end all of calibers, you don't need a barrel burner to get accuracy, or for that matter good performance. a bog standard 6.5-08 A square better known as a 260

hi guys , the 243 seems a fickle thing to load for what works for one wont work for others my howa hates noslers below 90 grains but 90 grainer will one hole with 37 grains of varget also loves 87 grain v maxes only light bullet got to work so far is a 70 grain sierra blitzking with 40 grains of varget again a one holer as near as dammitt but cant get 70 grain matchkings to work yet for some paper punching. now my mate has a sako that will shoot the same loads but his likes noslers and hate sierra blitzkings also his likes vitavouri powders and dosent seem to preform with varget .

Just to put the record straight, Please note, I didn't say I can shoot my 243 to under an inch at 600 yards, I leave that with great envy to a lad in my local gun club, he out shoots everyone, must be getting too old for this game. Al

I would go for the 260 chambering if I was you, it can handle a heavier bullet and there is none of the high chamber pressure problems associated with the 6.5x47. Anyway i have a 260 and it shoots like a dream, I would also specify a neck on the barrelloose enough so you can just neck down a 308 case and use it as is, no neck turning or any of the other mucking about, It works well in my 260 Weatherby, and makes life a hell of a lot easier. anyway good luck, for barrels I would recommend pac Nor in the USA they make some fantastic tubes.

the cost to improve the tolerances during manufacture generally is about 8% of the manufacturing cost, that means taking it from a rough bit of work to perfection, it doesn't matter what the materials are, that is the machining costs for whatever the part is, Personally i have had custom rifles, blue printed rifles and ones I have just put together out of bits, and I haven't found a great deal of difference in any of them,especially when i have a remy 700 VSL 243 win that will shoot under an inch at 600 yards, that's an out of the box with a replacement jewel trigger, the biggest things to con

I have a jewel trigger on mine, it worked wonders, well stopped me watching the barrel swing to the left every time i tried to pull the trigger anyway, but my remy 700 was one of the old VLS's with the 14 Ton triggers, the new remys you can adjust the trigger down to a pretty good performance, so i would give it a go, remember though you must take the action out of the stock to do it, and remember to do the good old drop test after working on any trigger. I have done sever Remington 700's recently and all of them have ended up with a dammed good trigger in the end. if you want accuracy

try this, www.ab-tactical.com

Agreed, I use polystyrene drum shapes to hold the powder against the primer hole for my 9.5 x 57mm, though I haven't a clue how to get that big a piece of polystyrene through the neck of a 243, it somewhat reminds me of the gynecologist who wall papered his hallway through the letter box, Anyway one solution might be to use some of that very thin polystyrene sheet you can get, normally about 1 mm thick, cut it into small squares and push that in with a rod, so the powder is trapped behind a seal, then add some polystyrene balls on top as a bulker, i would be really careful trying it out th

I prefer the old Swarovski 8x56, the one with the steel tube, if I was you I would look for a good old one and forget the modern ones, as I am also hearing of a lot of faults with them, for a lens to come loose or out that's a real serious fault for what is supposed to be a top quality scope.

It depends on how many people would want a new Mannlicher, and in what materials, for instance it is the same to machine stainless as to make a traditional steel gun, so who wants what? I like the traditional bluing myself, the actions would all be the same size as we would use the 308 case as standard, so its only a matter of what barrel chamberings would be wanted, after the initial prototypes are made its just a matter of running actions off in batches of say 50, anyway we will see, we should have something coming off the machines by next Christmas, no idea on price, but the quality will su