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I quite like a 6x and the 42mm is bright. For the record Mitch was great to deal with and the rifle speaks for it itself.
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WOW, what a worthwhile thread!!!
An amazing amount of history on the Apex barrel. Plus excellent comments on making a really light rifle.
Personally, I learned a lot by following this thread. Many thanks to the folks who made it so GREAT.
Blessings,
Steve
Nice to have you post about all of this, you happen to be a favorite gun scribe of mine. Well put also, I felt I owed updates and pictures due to the content that others graciously contributed. The article on Mr. Pfieffer was particularly of interest.
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I quite like a 6x and the 42mm is bright. For the record Mitch was great to deal with and the rifle speaks for it itself. I'm going to get Mitch to do some work for me in the future, have heard a lot of good things about him.
Gerry.
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Another good story highlighted by a bunch of great pictures. Thanks.
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So, I changed the scope to a seemingly more appropriate 6x42 Leupold and went shooting. It doesn't like 120 Btips. It puts factory PP ammo into an inch but my favorite combo of H4350 and 140 TTSXs sure perform! ![[Linked Image]](http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q137/rem338win/34db9b61.jpg) 6lbs 5oz is the final scoped weight and with that combo even the elk and moose are in trouble. I don't know where you are for magazine constraints, but thinking that the M-7 allows for about 2.815" roughly I wager a guess that the ogive of that 140 TTSX is slightly inside of the case mouth...?
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Try some RL 17 in your 284 win. for the heck of it.
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Who has tried RL-17 in a .284? Hmmm. Anyone used it in a .270 yet? The data is virtually interchangeable.
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remm338win, By the looks of that group you've posted, RL-17 is going to have to work awfully hard to tighten things up from what that load of H-4350 is giving.  That's looking good, real good..!
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