Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting New GA Precision Extreme Hunter in 6.5 SAUM arrived !

Scott... You and Pat sure do have me lusting after one of these. My wife is gonna throw a rod! Lol

Does depend on what you are doing... Most of my shooting was CMP service rifle. At which I did somewhat ok. It meant we shot from Feb or so through September every year. Almost every weekend. And some weekends twice. And often 2-3 times during the week at my personal range out the back door plus dry firing.

For that amount of shooting, I had practice ammo, IE stuff that was good but not great, but then there was state, and perry nationals ammo.... Kind of like making a hunting shot...

Lets just say there were some needle sharp mono bullets years ago. I can't recall exactly... but came 20 or so in a box, with foam knockouts where each bullet sat by itself. So sharp you could easily draw blood by the point. CNC turned. HIGH BCs.... over a dollar each IIRC.

I shot them for some time. But never could get them to shoot really well and I dropped them.

But to be able to gain some ground where I could go to nationals and win a match, by a point or X.... well you can't really factor the cost of the bullet at that point. All the prep and travel and such made the cost of the bullet really moot...

So yeah if you can get really good returns.... its often worth the money for some.

BTW fell back to running 90 JLKs out of the 223 and was worth the money. I only wish that Jimmy would have let me know he was selling out.... I"d have bought him out and done what swampy did..... in a heartbeat.

And then there is the issue of all components becoming more costly because of material cost and labor. Lets face it, I can't buy a box of 69 SMKs anymore for well under 10 bucks a box either.

Not trying to be too much of a smartazz here, but some costs just ain't a big deal in the scheme of things.

it is only money...

can't take it with ya and getting a GAP will keep the old lady from buying shoes with it .... laffin'

Or 30 pairs of shoes

I'd rather have nice rifles than a 50 thousand dollar truck....

Yes sir !!

Seems I saw where Scenarshooter (Pat) make a similar statement about his high end range finding binocs...

Makes perfect sense to me...

DF

I got my wife working OT on her 2nd job.

If she keeps this up I will have one.

Lol

Not really.

I will buy my own.

Me too. My truck is 9 years old. It's a nice truck. I might trade it when she turns 15.

Mine go around 10 yrs.

But, I do got some nice guns...

DF

My truck is 23 years old. I have several rifles that are worth more than my truck

After seeing George's in action both in Montana last fall on game and steel and the comp rifle at the Sniper's Hide Cup and Icebreaker II, is why I committed to one !

Stupid accurate, great barrel life, performance surpassing caliber and all on a short action !

I really think this is gonna be a record setting / record breaking caliber !

Scott and/or Pat,

Do both of you have the 100% carbon fill SL stock? Assume that's the standard stock for that model?

Yes, I believe that is the standard on this build.

Of course, that is why you go custom, I am sure GAP would do a different stock for the difference in $$

That Manners SL stock is really nice. When I get some time I'll do some picture comparisons to the Hunter's EDGE.

I'll take it!










Wait, wrong section.

update... per George G.

regarding brass

Three steps in case prep, Neck down with a .295 bushing. Pull back through a .264 expander same step, Turn neck to .013-.015 thickness (removes any runout from sizing down) . Size with .291 bushing and trim to 2.025 (2.035 max)

BTW...

Copper Creek Cartridge is prepping brass for sale as well as loaded ammo.

Any idea what a 140 vld oal would be seated to touch the lands in your chamber? Or for the 140 Amax? Wheels are turning.

I like the looks of that APA bottom metal. I have the stiller bottom metal on my creedmoor and it works well but I'd like something that's flush with the stock when the mags out and that doesn't have a lever that sticks way out. I saw that pt&g has a new flush bottom metal out but it has a bigger lever.

Bb

BB,

my 140 Amax test loads were at 2.910" COAL, they shot very well.

the 130 Berger is loaded to 2.900" COAL and I will be testing those very soon !

I am very happy with the APA for the hunting platform, release nicely integrated into the trigger guard. Great for carry rig.

Little better picture of the new rifle...