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I don’t know fellas, but the fire is sure burning clean since there hasn’t been a green twig smoking it up.

Call it 9lb 2oz + magazine

I shot this rifle at the New England PRS Pro Series 2 Day Match this past weekend. I had an issue with the stock so swapped a McMillian A5 Thumbhole for the match. I’m also shooting Live Oak Accuracy’s brake rather than the M11. LOA’s brake does a particularly good job mitigating muzzle rise.

Shooting a lightweight rifle in PRS puts one at a major disadvantage. When you can’t reliably spot your hits (hit or miss) you forfeit a principle feedback data stream. With this particular rifle, clear observation of impacts at ranges inside approximately 600yrds. is compromised by recoil—even with the scope set at 12-16x. This coupled with the fact that many PRS stages in the 300-600yrd. range require positions other than prone and/or complex shot\target string sequences.

I’m at the greatest advantage when shooting from prone at relatively unobscured targets. Targets that are easy to find in the scope after recoil. Similarly, stages with targets at ranges in excess of 800yrds. and the accompanying extended time of bullet flight, also present significantly increased opportunities for viewing impacts through the scope. The wind is the biggest variable. If you can’t see where you’re hitting, you’re shooting half blind.

For reference, the McMillan weighs 1lb 5oz more than the EH2.

Not me I was 10 but I’m no slouch as I stand. 😉.

Scenar what powder charge of H1000 was the Atip getting in your 6.5 saum
Mine doesn’t seem to like them as much as 143eldx’s but it’s getting in the .5”’s

Give the NX8 review already!!
Glad manners is standing behind the stock.

I also started using Thunder Beast’s new bipod with spiked feet. So far I’m mucho happy. Leg extension is overwhelmingly mechanically positive. Flipping down the legs doesn’t require depressing a button, yet legs stay up when you want them to. The tilt lock/tensioning mechanism works as advertised—set and forget, unless you jamb the lever into something when getting into position. My only real bitch is that it doesn’t come with spiked feet, they’re another $50...

I’m still hot on the idea of the Cyke Bipod, but refuse to pay full price for one. That said, I reluctantly paid full price for the TBAC Bipod and in the end I don’t regret it in the least.

https://thunderbeastarms.com/products/bipod

Those spiked feet would be hell on paint I’m sticking to rubber as my hood is very polished. 😂

Tom Manners called me personally to address the stock. He and I have both been traveling, but Tom was anxious to assure me that he’d get it sorted.

I got the NX8 mounted this afternoon. It’s really bright and really crisp. Parallax ranges from 11yrds to infinity. With such a wide range of parallax, depth of focus is rather shallow. I need to spend some time behind it with a notebook before I can comment meaningfully. Eye relief also appears to be somewhat critical. It’s certainly svelte and compact and when adjusted properly, the NX8 delivers a smashing view.

TBC...

WTF happened to the stock?

The forend walked to the right toward the tip resulting in the barrel rubbing on the left side of the barrel channel. I first noticed this when temps got up to near 100°F while woodchuck hunting at the farm, then at a match the following week, it persisted. The forend does not come back when cooled.

Apparently with a barrel channel inlet as large as this (Proof Light Sendero), the stock should have been made in carbon fiber and/or had the barrel channel lined with carbon fiber.

Thanks Kingston, I really like that blueprint. That would make a fine hunting rifle. I am thinkin and plannin... scary I know..... but I came up with a similar blueprint in my mind, was thinkin of a 17" barrel and a lightweight suppressor. With a NXS 2,5-10 it would be a handy package.

That load is actually IMR 7977.(61.2)

🙏.

Hell, we all could. Now I just want to hold my beer.....

Here’s a few NX8 pics. I had the 6-screw NF rings in stock. The regular 4-screw rings might have looked better. It’s got the Hawkins M5 pattern DBM installed.

That’s a sexy MF’er! King.

Do you think the brake is going to handle all the recoil from that beast?

I see one of these shirts in your future....😎

156 showed up today.
Start at 55 grains of RL26.



Thanks again king. I’m gonna need Mac bros once I figure out what to build. Snagged another seekings gen1 bottom for the manners stock momma said keep it and pay up lol. Got a weird call to make Monday morning. Kinda thinking a 243ai with a 7t proof lite but still debating.

NEW loading Pard is happy.

Wow, that's super nice!

I even ordered a new camouflage shirt for the antelope hunt next month. 🤙🤙🤙
Pics will be awesome.


upload a pic

If I ever get a Big sheep tag I’m going with the orange version.