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That’s totally unfair David 👍🏻

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From up norf “Roll us your cap grandad”

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Cheers Ben I appreciate the write up and comments 👍🏻

Looks fab Rob

I tend to use deer - not had any negative results over a long period of time all bullets used being designed to expand for the purpose

Kyle at XLR is (was) very good to deal with when he first started up - haven’t bought anything from them for a long time Always best dealing direct in my experience

No problem re chassis questions - I am not precious about helping people just like most other riflesmiths who frequent the site try to help wherever they can You do not have to declare when ordering from MDT if you have dealers licence or if you are trade, I pay what "normal people pay" and still have significant saving on UK "RRP" you may be contacted by Customs Clearance to request "Authority to possess" but that would only entail sending a pro forma declaration which they provide and a scanned copy of your FAC - I recently had to do this for a stock coming from Republic of Ireland (Post Brexit) - still arrived safely with minimal delay once the admin was correct

Took delivery of a chassis two weeks ago no issue and short delivery time Exchange rate was fine - import duty paid and passed saving on to client supplied you may find your order comes from the supplier in the Netherlands but again it’s no hassle just order direct via the MDT site

Nice MDT take orders direct by the way - No “Covid” delays ....and favourable exchange rate as opposed to direct swap of Can dollar to GBP

Standard extractor Neil and it appears to work perfectly well - this modification is quite common across the pond with no alterations to the extractor - there are slight variances with the Standard, Magnum and Super Mag extractors with approach angles but otherwise those are effectively he same (.218" wide) Certainly slips over parent case well and extracts no issue - the angle of the forward face could if necessary be altered with low speed diamond wheel lap or D Bit grinder and carbide wheel Hopefully see how it performs at extended ranges very soon - Tyre is a spare for the four already on my pickup - noisy as hell but takes me anywhere I need to be for extraction

Possibly unique in the UK (at the moment) The rifle started out as a standard 6.5mm Creedmoor Tikka Tac A1, that was provided as a donor / project for a client The rifle was very well looked after, but suffered from the usual pica-tinny rail screw issue that Tikkas suffer - corroded screws, which, doubled with stripped heads and loctite at the factory makes an interesting and twitchy afternoons work, removing carefully with the mill and small carbide end mill and thread clean up The Tac A1 is a modular chassis, that relies on the standard pica-tinny rail to provide a "bridge" between the lower chassis and forend tube via a clever "O" support bracket Once the rifle was stripped down and the barrel removed, I cleaned up the lugs, lapping them with fine lapping paste and then placed the bolt in a fixture, set it up to run true and opened up the bolt face to .540" for the SAUM cartridge Relatively simple task, but sharp tooling required to get a good finish. The barrel came from Sassen and is a stainless cut rifled , 7.5 twist, finished at 28" in target profile, threaded at M18x1mm for moderator or brake with protective cap. The rifles end use is Long Range competition shooting steels and I believe the client intends to use 180 class High BC bullets, single fed. The throat is adjusted to maximise powder space in the SAUM case Very interesting project that one hopes will provide a highly accurate rifle for the client who I have shot with many many years ago regularly on Warcop Charlie High range when we could use such places. Anyway, some images Bolt face after machining Gauge test fit Finished rifle

We all need to support and sign this Pass to as many people as possible to sign who may not be part of UKV too

Not sure where your getting that price from MDT ship direct and at the current exchange rate the EsS works out at £570 before shipping I’ve never had any issue ordering direct from them

Depends really on what action you are planning to buy. There are numerous "tactical" style stocks available from a variety of manufacturers - you would need an action whom they provide an inlet for

Clients Tikka T3 sent in for re-barrel in 6.5x47 to be made into a lightweight, point able deer management tool on hill and uplands in the north The action was stripped and checked over, lugs lapped. Barrel is Lothar Walther Sako Hunter profile, 8T, finished at 22" threaded M14x1mm and fitted with a knurled protector as its likely to spend most of its time being used. The action has been skim bedded with Devcon epoxy into a PSE Composites E-Lite stock finished in black duracoat. Bottom metal is standard Tikka mag system Mk 11 DPT mod All up weight is 6lb 10 oz A super little deer rifle that will serve the end user well for many years

Not much better than training films used by the cops a few years ago

Thanks for the response Jack I wasn’t aware that the collet holder fixture had Axial movement Would love to see this in action if you get the opportunity to video sometime I’ve always done things “old school” 😂

I’ve often wondered how you get by the issue with barrel bores rarely running true when using fixed tooling for chambering - especially with CNC machines where I guess you can’t “feel” the reamer cutting Ive a number of reamer holders I use - all allow some movement - axially - as the pilot follows the bore - how do you account for this with collet holder type fixtures (it’s not a trick question Jack, ive nothing like the machines you run and am genuinely interested)

Yes quite a few caused by stiff bolt on over pressure home loads that the end user then attempts to open with a mallet or similar - which usually ends in the claw being bent and silver solder / braze failing Only solution is new bolt handle and re braze Not terribly difficult to do ,,,,,but easy to get wrong and mess up the secondary cam extraction timing

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Matt Arcteryx Nothing else comes close

I’d forgotten I posted that also put it on the hide Great times

I believe “we” (the site) were arrranging such gatherings back in late 2008 to begin with shooting ateel It was indeed fun back then and still is now No one “owned” the idea and I recall no egos or elitism It would be good to return to those halcyon days