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My creation:

.308-caliber Hart barrel. About 27 or 28 inches long to muzzle, proper. Six lands and grooves. 1:10 in a righthand twist. Stainless, o' course. Custom contour. Six flutes. Shrewd Number Four muzzle brake hollowed out by gunsmith to make gases escape faster, thus softening recoil. Free-floated from just in front of receiver mouth.

Montana Rifle Company Model M1999, 2004 vintage from charter run. Long-action magnum. Left-handed. Stainless, o' course. Massaged to make feeding slicker than snot on a hoe handle. Put into service as a 300WSM in October 2005. Fed beyond poorly. My fault: I just had to have the 300WSM. Totally enamored of it, I was. Just stupid, I guess. And ignorant about rifles, cartridges, reloading, long actions versus short actions, controlled-round feeding versus push-feeding, et cetera.

Richards Micro-fit Thumbhole Target stock. Two recoil reducers in buttstock: One is left-handed Hiram's Dead Mule (no longer made); other is a five-ounce mercury unit. Stock required extensive (about $2300 worth) handwork by gunsmith Robert C. Sutton of Tussey Custom in Moundhouse, NV. That was back in 2005. Don't choose a Richards. There are many other alternatives that are far, far less expensive to bring to fruition. Pachmayr Presentation buttpad.

Millett LRS-1 scope. Side-focus. 35mm maintube. 6-25X x 56mm. 140 moa of elevation. Too-high rings. Medium set comin' in the mail o/a January 10. Scope base by Near Manufacturing. Made in Canada. Left-handed. 25moa slope. VERY difficult to acquire. Near makes 100:1 in righty over lefty. $175 each. Stainless, o' course...

Chambered in my de novo mildcat, the 300 Nevada Desert Magnum. 76.8 grains of water to bottom of neck; about 86.0-86.5 to mouth. Original design. Reamer and headspace gauges by Dave Manson; reamer ground to have .002" total clearance around the neck. Forming and reloading dies designed by Ben Syring at Hornady Manufacturing Company. Factory Crimp Die by Lee Precision. Various little tools and trimmer mandrels by Lee Precision (custom stuff).

Parent case is the 375Ruger Basic brass cold-formed to 2.494 inches long. No fire-forming required. Neck is .386 inches long by .336 inches in diameter; 17�-degree shoulder angle; shoulder at 1.832 inches from head and shoulder diameter of .510 inches. Basically, a .30-06 Springsteen on a magnum case. Verified by my blue Chrony to deliver 3000 fps using 68 grains of H4831SC under the 180-grain Sierra MatchKing. Too hot: Showed "piecrust" ridges on primer. Now using slower powders.

Other bullets to be used are several between 150-grain FMJ to 220-grain round-nose by Hornady and Sierra. Doing load work-ups for two or three target and like number of hunting bullets. Powders under consideration are H1000, Retumbo, RL-25, IMR7828SSC and MagPro. Load development is an ongoing exercise as of November 2012. No definite loads yet exist.

As you see it here, the rifle was 'smithed by Bradly Hunt of Alkali International Corporation in Winnemucca, NV. Mildcat first dreamed-up July 25, 2008. First round fired July 15, 2012 after many, many changes. Just a red hair under four years. Total cost in this boondoggle: About $8,000. Yes. But remember, that's the total in essentially two rifles-- one of which is a mildcat. Doing-up your own round ain't cheap...

Weighs right around nineteen pounds. Ain't for carrying. You carry it from the car to the bench in its custom-made, $375, 25-pound aluminum case. It was 55" long in its first incarnation. Needed the custom case; nothing commercially-made that long. 52" long now.

Got maybe 250-300 rounds through it (I don't count 'em). Prints very, very small groups if I can hold my liquor and keep my sanity. Best is a five-shot at 0.136 inches. Most are quarter-minute to half-minute (when I'm sloppy or yip the shot) from 100 yards. Does well if I do well. Goal is to print half-inch groups at 600 yards and maybe get it inside one-minute at 1000 yards. Lotsa work to do until we see that...



My dad made the adjustable sandbag. Goes way up. Caldwell sissy bag bungeed to a platform that adjusts up and down on six-inch carriage bolts. Locks with thumbscrews. Little piece of quarter-inch ply on right side is for a line level. I prefer this to my hexpensive Sinclair machine rest. Shot the .136" group from this rest. Slide leg to left or to right to adjust for windage. You'll get plenty...

223 AI

Build list:
SS Sucks Action
#2 1:8 Rock Creek Barrel 0.75" shank 21"
PTG one piece bolt, shroud, pin, & ADL trigger guard
HTS/Bansner Stock
old style 700 trigger
topped with Talleys and a 3.5-10 Leupold

Weighs in at 7# 5oz

I updated this rifle with a Cerakote job. Tungsten Grey barreled action with Graphite Black rings, trigger, floorplate, bolt release, and flutes.

Gorgeous rifle and PROPS on your lawn. .132 group size... D*mn!!!

Eric

Did you gents know there is a free software out there that allows for a very accurate measuring of group sizes? It's called OnTarget. You scan your target, name it and then follow the fairly easy-to-use directions to get group sizes right down to .001" levels. You can also take a picture of the group, save it and go from there. Most important thing is to scale the scan or photograph. This will make the circles the same size as the bullet holes. Here's an example of what I produced using the rifle described in my above post:



Note the average center-to-center distance is 0.200 inches from 100 yards. Not bad for a no-talent greenhorn. The longer the reference line, the more accurate the group size is calculated to be by the software. OnTarget ain't hard to use; just takes a bit of fooling with it to figger it out...

http://www.6mmbr.com/ontargetsoftware.html

Looks dam-ned clean, blackfoot. No fancy frills. Pure business...

6.5-284
Stiller Predator LA
Stiller 20 MOA base
ABS wrapped Rock Creek Barrel, 1:8, 29", M24 contour
Jewell Trigger
PTG bottom metal
McM Adj. Tactical Hunter, McCamo
Badger rings
Zeiss Diavari 6-24x56

Weighs exactly 11.0 lbs unloaded with no bi-pod
Rifle without scope and rings weighs 8.4 lbs

Weaver Rifles .338-06, all up weight 8lbs 9oz with cheap Allen nylon speed sling and 6 rounds in it.

M70 Classic SS action
Pac-Nor SS Super Match barrel, #3 Shilen contour, 24" long, 1:10 twist, 3 groove, and recessed crown
McMillan Hunters Edge stock inlet for Montana action and #3 Shilen with 1.5" shank (found on campfire classifieds)
Talley LWT extended mounts
Leupold VX3 2.5-8X36 B&C reticle










Kevin filled in the stock and matched the color pretty well where the bolt release was for the Montana action.

300 RUM on a blueprinted 700 action, 27", #5, 1:10 twist fluted Lilja barrel. Holland muzzle brake, Holland recoil lug, Jewell trigger, Callahan Obendorf bottom metal, Wyatts extended magazine, Greybull Precision stock painted GAP camo. Bolt fluted by Kampfeld, PT&G speed lok firing pin assembly, Badger Ordinance 20 MOA rail, Burris XTR low rings, Leupold VX-3 6.5-20x50mm long range. Action, barrel and brake cerekoted except in the flutes.

Rem 700 SA ADL Black Graphite Cerakote
#3 Hart crowned @23" Bead blasted
7mm 08
Mcm Classic Edge olive paint

Aluminum pillar bedded
Robert Gradous did this recent makeover

7-08
Obermeyer tube, MR contour
PTG .186" lug
LVSF stock
talley lows

6 pounds 2 oz as is. Stole the wife's 4.5-14 off her .243 just so i can go see how it shoots this weekend; leaning toward leupy 6x42 but may go 2.5-8 instead. either way should stay under 7 happily.



and yes, the bench is a total pigsty. deal with it.

Blueprint:

Yugo 48 Intermediate Mauser action
S&K Rings & Sculpted Bases/Rings (all plated)
Dakota 3- position "M70-style" safety
Custom knob
#3 CM Shilen 1-in-10" twist tube trimmed to 21" chambered to .257 Roberts
Boyd's Classic Nutmeg laminate
Mahovsky's Metalife Plating
M8 6x 42mm w/ Euro #4 reticle












Contouring of the Swede BM unit by Mike McCabe:



cartridge designation:



Today on 1st range visit:

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EFW,

That's purty dang nice!

Sucks action.
Douglas Stainless Premium #3 finished @ 21"
.223AI.
Tuned factory trigger.
Talley LW's with Leupold MK AR mod 1. 3-9X40mm.
McMillan BDL pattern (I think)
Weighs 7 1/2 lbs with scope and rings.

All work done by Mickey Coleman. [bleep]' thing shoots everything sub-moa.




Travis

Weight is 7lb 4oz with scope on top.

308.
Rem 700SA trued and lapped
#3 pac nor ss cut at 22"... 1-11" twist
McMillan classic edge
Vx-ll 3-9x40
Talley LW's lows -lapped
TI bolt fluting by Kampfeld
Action, barrel, and bedding by Lee (Redneck)
-cerakote after this season... Either graphite black or satin mag

Thought I would bump this one up, since I just bedded it in its new stock.

Built by Kampfeld:

Trued M700, double pinned recoil lug.
Kampfeld knob.
Rifle Basix trigger.
Cerakoted action in "titanium", bolt and bottom metal in "matte black."
Pacnor 12T, 3 groove at 24".
22-250AI.
Burris bases, Burris Signature rings tefloned by Black Ice in "brown."
Kahles Helia CL 4-12x52
Gamescout stock in "McCamo."

Jim Wisner metaled M96 in 7x57.
Shilen 22" barrel
Timney trigger
Wisner made one piece bottom metal with inside the bow release
Wisner made bolt knob
Wisner made three position safety and cock on opening conversion
Wisner made banded sling swivel
Wisner made banded front sight
Wisner made quarter rib and sights with integral front scope ring base and rear ring base
Wisner made quick detach rings
Wisner machined G33/40 treatment on the action

English walnut stock by Dean Zollinger with Biesen butt plate and Jerry Fisher grip cap.

Game's over. You win. That is friggin' gorgeous.

SS Rem 700 SA
Pinned Holland lug
Pac-Nor SS Super Match #2 3-groove 9" twist finished at 22"
Factory Rem trigger tuned to break like a Jewell at 2.5lbs
McMillan Moutain Rifle (BDL) in Campfire Camo
Two tone cerekote by Eddie F.
Flutes by Feldkamp
Trigger internals and bore treated with Dyna Bore Coat
Talley LW's cerekoted graphite black
Leupold VX-III 2.5x8x36 with custom shop dots for the 140gr Accubond @2950fps




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I like that one a lot!! Great looking build in the perfect caliber - congrats!!