Mike C

The 6mm's arrived Wednesday just gone. Thanks for that 👍

Bought new from OPW about 4 years back, sat on top of a rifle for about 1 year then put back in box. 

So basically is in immaculate condition with perhaps slight ring marks (as to be expected). Apart from that - perfect. 

1/4 Moa adjustments. 

Tactical turrets. 

LRMOA reticle.

Second focal plane. 

Comes with everything that came with it, manual, caps, cloth, sun shade etc. 

Price drop and including postage (UK)

2 hours ago, Kipper said:

I'll take the juggernauts of you can pm me payment details. 

Sorry Kipper, I paid Chris this morning for these. 🙁

😔

👍

Hi Aaron, 

If You've still got it pm me to sort out payment and postage. 

Cheers

VORTEX VIPER PST 1-4x24

- TMCQ reticle

- Illuminated reticle

- SFP

- 1/2 MOA clicks

- Butler creek lens caps (shown on one of the pics)

- Small coin marks on the battery cover (my fault!) and possible small marks where scope mount has been but no dents, crimps etc.

- Unmarked optics

- 3D printed ABS plastic throw lever.

- No original box! sorry, not my fault 😑. 

£280.00 

LaRue cantilever mount & towel not included in the price 😁.   

Sorry, sold it today

Now Sold

Sorry for the late reply................busy day.   

Tameside area. 

Tier One black FTR bipod & Tier One ABS case.

Anschutz adaptor and sling swivel adapter included.  

Excellent condition. 

£260.00

Bipod board not included 😞 

I could post it but only via Post office Special delivery, that would cost an extra £11.15    

Hi had a Savage Model 12 FTR for my first tiptoe into the FTR class. I think if I'd have persevered with it I could have started to get some pretty good consistent results.  The problem for me was the stock, I think I just missed having a pistol grip. 

Also on my Savage the bolt had a bit of a sloppy firing pin hole which started extruding the primer up the annular space between firing pin and hole way below .308 max pressures.  I believe this to be quite a common occurrence on some Savage PTA bolts and not necessarily a problem. The problem is you'll never know about this until you get one.  Still, a damn good FTR rifle for the money and I actually liked the Acu-trigger.

If you don't mind me asking, was this a Gen1 or 2?

19 hours ago, Kipper said:

I will be passing Gardners on Friday heading to Bisley if its any help 

Thankyou for the offer Kipper but I think I'll be using the Federal 205M that I have plenty of as they appear to work as good....if not a little better.

2 hours ago, stottycake said:

Just a heads up,

I received an email today from gardners guns, saying they can get

 Murom Large rifle magnum primers 

And fiocchi small rifle  magnum primers 

At £12 per hundred, 

If anyone is interested in any email 

Helen.gardnersguns@gmail.com

Or ring the shop,

too far for me 😒

3 hours ago, Re-Pete said:

Were the Muroms KVB-223M, or std?

Pete

Pete, they were standard

For what it's worth.

I managed to sneek a day off and go up to the range last Tuesday morning to do a quick test using Federal 205m primers and compare with my archived murom kvb 223 test results from a few years/800 rounds-ish back. 

Rifle is a tikka tac A1 6.5cm, lapua sr brass, N160. Temperature was  around 8C (very mild for the time of year) and very little, if any, wind. Standard harris type bipod and rear bean bag. I did the following tests at 100yrd:

Firstly for safety, a single round going up in 0.5gr increments from my lower node charge weight up to my higher node charge weight to check for signs of pressure. No over pressure signs so on to my mini test.

3x rounds at my usual highest node powder charge: 8.5mm group. 

3x at -0.3gr: 7.5mm group. 

And then:

3x rounds at my 2nd node down: 5mm

3x rounds at +0.3gr: 10mm 

3x rounds at - 0.3gr: 5mm

Comparing the groups with one's done using murom kvb 223 primers some 2 years back it appears the 2nd node down has shifted ever so slightly down in powder charge some 0.2gr if that. The higher node has spread out by around 2mm and again shifted slightly down on powder charge.

So for my rifle, Tikka Tac A1, changing from Murom kvb223 to federal 205m primers will mean reducing my charges down by 0.2gr to stay in the sweet spots. However what I haven't managed to do yet is measure muzzle velocity for consistency and I only did 3 shot groups and not 5 like I should have done but bullets, powder, primers etc are getting bloomin expensive.

Nice to know that Bruce. 

Seeing as I personally don't need an illuminated ret for my uses and that it also contains ED glass... it might be worth a try. 

There's an unusually high discount on this scope from OW. Down from a RRP of 1399.95 to 349.95. 

What's the reason?   

3 minutes ago, Laurie said:

 

Ouch! I'd forgotten that issue!

 

 

I'm using my remaining stocks up in 120/123gn 6.5Grendel handloads for a Howa 1500 'Mini' Oryx rifle. They're ideal for that, likewise 222 Rem and mild 223 Rem loads. 

I was actually thinking of using them up in a mild .223 load.

Super 🙂 

Well going off those comments I think I'll save on potential issue's down the line and use Federal 205's  instead, got plenty of em 🙂.    

I shall appoint the PMC's to something less demanding.

Thanks for the comments 👍 

I'm running out of my trusty Murom KVB-223 primers which I've used solely for my 6.5CM for a while now without any problems at all and they were on the 'hot' side. Obviously I won't be finding any of these again any time soon so,  

Q: has anyone had any experience with PMC standard small rifle primers which I have a good amount of ?

Or do I just swop over to Federal 205M 

SOLD

Price drop:   £400