Wellllll.....Have a buddy that had the cash burning a hole in his pocket, and I got his in hand a couple days ago.....
Went through the normal culprits and didn't have to do anything except trim the front screw for the the Talley LWs. Pulled it out of the stock and adjusted the trigger down to a CH over 2#s and bolted it back up. Mag box has plenty of play and I decided to see how she did without bedding to get a baseline. Mounted and bore sighted a 10x Super Chicken. Had an extry box of 143 ELD-X Hornady factory fodder....
First 3 shot group went into a 2" group, but after shooting a couple more "groups" the rifle settled down and the 4th, 3 shot group went into a 3/4" group.
Took it out to 550 on steel where it looks like it's running the 143s at 2655ish according to the drops. Put 3 consecutive shots on the plate before it got too dark.
All in all, it's typical Kimber NICE. It'll get bedded next couple days and some handloads worked up. Factory box is 2.830 and I took some throat measurements a bit ago....Amazingly it'll kiss the 139 and 123 Scenars and run them out of the box. The 123 AMaxes also kissed at the max box length.....
143 ELD-x 2.910
140 AMax 2.870
123 AMax 2.830
139/123 Scenar 2.820
140 Hyrbid 2.940
140 VLD 2.895
130 VLD 2.890
