Chris-NZ Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 I recently got my new varmint/occasional F-Class gun running. It's a fully trued 40X in a shortish BR stock, 27" Bartlein chambered in 6x47L and topped with a 5-25 ATAC-R. It's the middle one of the these three my son photographed yesterday. No smart comments about the colour- that's how I inherited it but will soon paint it.. Anyway, the weather today was kind, if not a tad hot, so we headed 40mins south to one of the four contiguous farms I can shoot on. My son warmed up with a few maggies with the 6.5L- it certainly takes no prisoners with the A-Max 123s- this one was lifted about 8" into the air when it hit I only had an interim zero with the 6 Hot so tried it on some small rocks on a clay face at a bit over 400yds. The elevation was pretty much spot on but I figured the windage zero was maybe a 1/2 L out at that distance. There was only a very light breeze from about 10.30 so not onerous. I'd only fired three shots when my son spotted a maggie about 300yds further round the face. Geovids said 443 twice so cranked on the elevation and added another half min wind as it was slightly more sideways to the light breeze. Let one go and was greeted by an explosion of feathers. It's a toy to shoot with noticeably less recoil than its bigger brother and because it's heavier rifle too. Heading home, the temp hadn't dropped that's 91F for the metric-challenged. It was straight into the pool when we got home then a beer watching the one-dayer against India Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandy Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 You must be pleased with that, what bullets are you using? 105 grains of ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako 75 .243 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Chris you lucky git! ...nothing but rain here .....ohhh by the way nice shot!.....could have done that with my HMR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plonker dave Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Nice write up,feel so jealous sat here with the heating on and the heavens opening up to deliver a deluge of rain. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-NZ Posted January 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Gandy- they were just 105 A-maxs. It's shot sub half-inch first attempt with A-Maxs and Scenars (both jammed) as well as Hybrids (15 thou clear). It's just cheaper to hack round with A-Maxs before I try some systematic testing and fine-tuning. I was a bit uncertain how it would shoot as I'd read various report that the 6 version is more finicky than bigger brother. My 6.5L was certainly dead easy to get it racing but this one isn't proving too bad at this stage, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandy Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 I used to use amax in a .243 and they are superb and switch between scenars and amax in a 6.5x47 which took no load development at all to shoot in the .2's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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