Aero Precision Solus Hunter

That is indeed the rifle. It was right at 1560 with taxes and FFL transfer fee. If I am not sold on the stock I can always wait for a sale and buy a chassis for it.

The rifle showed up yesterday and I must say it looks even better in person than it does on the internet. I spent the morning disassembling and reassembling everything as well as adjusting the Triggertech Field trigger down to about 2-3/4 pounds which is plenty light for what I am doing. I also mounted a Bushnell 5-30 scope which while it wasn’t my first choice it did keep the total cost below 2500 dollars which freed up some money in the budget for a few extra magazines and a couple boxes of ammo. I hope to make it to the range next week to start putting it through its paces and gather some data.

First range day is in the books. After struggling to get it on paper initially once there it started showing promise right away. Bear in mind I haven’t shot in about 10 years but managed to pull in a couple 3/4 inch groups right at the end. I will be back at the range Friday with a chronograph and a spotter to start stretching its legs.

I’ve been out to the range a few more times and the rifle is a solid 3/4 MOA performer out to 200 using the Hornady 140 grain ELD-M Match ammunition. I did finally have a chance to chronograph it and I have to say I was pretty unimpressed with the results. Still working on getting everything together to reload so factory ammo for now.

lash said:

That’s pretty respectable for a mid weight hunting rifle off the shelf, using factory ammo. Both the groups and the speed from my view.

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I don’t disagree with you on the accuracy part but I was expecting another 70 FPS in the velocity department.

As far is it being a Mid Weight “hunting” rifle I have to chuckle about how things have changed in the last 10 years. My last purpose built “Sniper” rifle weighs almost exactly the same as this rifle. 10 years ago 12-15 pounds was a heavy rifle but with the popularity of some of the newer shooting disciplines it would appear that 20 pounds is the norm and 12 pounds is light

So we put in another good range day with the rifle today. I added an Area 419 muzzle brake which has made the rifle a lot more comfortable during longer range sessions.

Today I worked on some load development for the rifle using 140 grain Nosler RDF’s, H4350, Lapua SRP brass and Federal match primers. After 10 years away from the bench I was happily amazed to see all my reloads were in the teens or less for ES and 4-8 SD. The most accurate 5 shot group at 200 yards was 40.6 grains and it shot a touch over a half inch.

I was amazed at how varied the groups were as it went from 1.75 inches at 40.4 to 1/2 inch at 40.6 and then a touch over an inch at 40.8 and back to 1.75 at 41.0. I will be doing some more load development around that 40.6 grain load to see if anything else can be gained.

Overall I am supremely happy with how this rifle is shooting regardless of the price point and I look forward to shooting it out past 200 yards to see what it can do. If you are on ethe fence about one of these rifle I would wait until they go on sale and snag one,.