My new Elk rifle!

[yorketransport]

I hate you guys.......

 

A part of me does feel like I don't deserve this rifle. I just don't think I'll really love or appreciate it as much as I should. It's probably just going to get stuffed in the back of the safe and forgotten about. What a waste really........

I call DIBBS on the barrel and bolt. Of course that's once you have felt you have abused it enough and bounced bullets off enough animals to realize it's a complete trinket set up.

I offered to trade it for a home made slingshot.

I already told you, I'll only trade if your slingshot is made from a fair trade, locally sourced, non gmo, sustainably harvested cocobolo burl. And I want 3 goats, 14 chickens, a well, and 16 iPads donated to a village in the Congo in my name. Then you can have my second hand pile of parts gun. 

[Karl Blanchard]

That's a pretty fair trade, just sayin.........

[WoodlandShooter]

NICE!!! Now I just wish I had a 6.5 barrel to play with. I want a 6.5WSSM type thingy.

What is the nose length on the 130 AR Hybrid??

[Special T]

Tagging along

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[pianoman9701]

   what is the weight with scope?    mike w

It's right at 10# with a mag and 5 rounds.

I just got back from testing the 130 accubonds. I only had 15 of them left so I didn't get as much done as I wanted. I started with 31.0gr of IMR 8208 and went as high as 34.0gr. 34gr gave 2640fps and 3 shot groups just a touch under .5" at 100 yards. There's still a lot of room to bump up that powder charge, I just ran out of bullets to test. I started pretty low on the charges just to be on the safe side.

I'm already happy with the results. I run my 19" Grendel at 2430 fps with the 130 accubonds so I've already beat that by a solid 200 fps. Granted 2430 is on the slower side for the 130s in a Grendel, that's just where mine shoots the best. I'll hit an easy 2750 fps in the BRX.

I have 2580 FPS with my 6.5 Grendel 123 gr Hornady boat tails. My 100 yd groups are about .5".

[pianoman9701]

And that's a very cool gun. 

[bobcat]

Yes, we're going to Utah. My son is super excited about it, I'm not so excited about the drive though. We'll leave Tuesday night after I get off work and drive until we get there.

As far as follow up shots, I wouldn't know what to do if I needed one! I'm so used to everything just dropping after the first hit that half the time I don't even load more than 1 round it the gun. Of course I typically shoot calibers in a slightly different class than these small bore plinkers.

How was the elk hunt?

[csaaphill]

Nice rifle BTW
But hey aren't those, those semiautomatic assault rifles who's only real use is to kill as many people in a short amount of time as they can? Thought they were not sporting at all.
and before the flame monsters hit me was being sarcastic of course I know you can hunt with one. Have before myself with my mac 90 I had just being a butt.
Again nice rifle. Get tired of it I'll take it off your hands
you built that yourself nice job if so. 

[yorketransport]

I go to work for a few hours and this is what happens? I can't leave you kids alone long enough to go to the store without this whole thing getting shut down, opened up, shut down, opened back up and then edited and blacked out like the Warren Commision Report!

In all seriousness I'll only make this one comment on the whole topic of the ban which I think is only fair since it was my thread that was hijacked. I find it ironic that in a group of individuals who are so often critical of the "liberals" for being overly sensitive and watering down the discourse in the country with terms like "micro aggression", "offensive" and the like, that these same people who were so outraged by the over sensitive lefties would then respond in the same way when they suddenly felt offended by the comments of a reasonably anonymous individual on the internet. Just something to think about.
 

How was the elk hunt?

We leave tomorrow night. I couldn't get the 6.5 BRX ready to roll so for now I'm bringing a 300 Win Mag slinging 200gr Accubond for my dad, the 338/375 Ruger Striker loaded with 225 TTSX @ 2760fps for me as well as my 480 Ruger, and then the 458 Arnold lobbing a 450gr TSX @ 2300fps as my back up. I think any of these should get the job done!

I just realized that this got bumped to the off topics section. Time for a new thread I guess.
Now I'm back in the Guns and Ammo section. I can't even keep up with my own thread! It must be bed time.......

[Karl Blanchard]

You should probably just quit your job so you can stay a bit more "in the know" about the going ons of huntwa...........and more time to play with guns    

Plus we are down a gun guy now so you're gonna have to step up your game a bit york

[coachcw]

WE know your just afraid to use the lil 6.5 ...lol good luck .

[WoodlandShooter]

but don't forget the new hotness..the 6.8x64...

[Bob33]

I'm actually supposed to go on a cow elk hunt with Bearpaw at the end of the month with my dad and my son (if I can get away from work!) I'm really trying to get this up and running by then! I won't have a chance to get out again until next Sunday though so I'm running out of time.

I hope you're able to do the hunt with your dad and son. Memories like that are priceless. The fact that you put together a special rifle for the hunt will add an extra measure of satisfaction.

[yorketransport]

You should probably just quit your job so you can stay a bit more "in the know" about the going ons of huntwa...........and more time to play with guns    

Plus we are down a gun guy now so you're gonna have to step up your game a bit york

I think you're right! I feel like I'm falling behind on the local gossip. I'll start working on being more blunt and spending more time telling it like it is.

but don't forget the new hotness..the 6.8x64...

Man that sounds like a smoker! Maybe I'll try necking it up .308 and see what I get! I bet a round like that would stick around for 100+ years!

I hope you're able to do the hunt with your dad and son. Memories like that are priceless. The fact that you put together a special rifle for the hunt will add an extra measure of satisfaction.

We ended up canceling the hunt today. Sounds like the snow levels are too high and the elk haven't moved down into the area we were going to hunt. It was Dale's suggestion that we reschedule the hunt instead of going on what would likely be a great walk in the woods without seeing a single animal. I'll start a new thread looking for ideas to do damage control to make up for my son being so disappointed.

[coachcw]

Get the Landon  special ready !