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Accuracy International Picture Thread

Took the old girl out today. Meant to shoot the 6x47 barrel but apparently I forgot to seat the bullets deep enough and couldn't chamber the rounds.

Then screwed on the 16" 6.5creed barrel to do test some loads and was blowing primers with only 40.5gr of h4350 with a 142smk jumping .020". Tried 40.8 and had ejector swipes hard. Stopped there and scratched my head. Last year this barrel shot up to 42gr without pressure. No carbon ring...squeaky clean. Bought a box of 140 fgmm and shot the middle group and right group. 5rds each. Only difference is the middle group was shot with a Atlas cal and the right was a Harris. Suspected for a bit some of my issues was the Atlas, have similar inconsistency in other rifles i use it with. So fuck these fancy bipods... Harris fo life!

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Unless it’s totally broken and falling apart, a bipod did not make the difference in those groups
 
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@vh20 less the bipod itself but how I'm loading them and the harris works better for me. Going to test a bit more but explains why I always shoot one gun with a harris better than everything else that uses the Cals.
Mmmm, ok... I've got nothing against the Harris (I have about 4 of them), but the CAL is a more stable platform. That said, there is no way you go from what looks like a 1.5 MOA group to about a <0.2 MOA group just from switching bipods unless something is very wrong with one of them. There is something else at play there. I shoot the CALs better, but the difference is minimal, not huge like that.
 
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Please pardon this moment of self-indulgence:

You know how there's always that one guy who corrects someone when they say "My rifle is a 0.XX MOA rifle", by saying:

"Oh yeah? So you're telling me that you shot at least 5 (and more appropriately 10) 5-shot groups and averaged them out to be 0.XX MOA? I doubt you did. I bet more likely than not, you shot one group that was 0.XX MOA and declared -against every statistical "law" in existence- that that was your rifle's actual capability."

Yeah, I'M THAT GUY. IT'S ME! I hate it when people claim accuracy based on one (or less than 5) groups. The only thing worse is when people claim that 3 shot "groups" count. They do not.

With that said . . . . I shot the best 1,000 yard group of my life yesterday. Unfortunately, it was on steel and not paper (which is another grounds for disqualification when declaring accuracy capability). But it (again, 5 shots) measured 1-13/16" inches. I followed it up (with a 20 minute range break in-between) with another group where the first four shots were within 3.6" (0.34 MOA), but the 5th frustratingly ended another 2.5" up (being frustrated with a 0.573 MOA group at 1,000 is pretty great).

I forgot to take phot of the rifle, but it's my AXSA with its "practice" (not even the "good" one) 6.5CM Barrel. 140 Berger Hybrids in Lapua Brass (about the 16th firing on the brass), 43.2gr H4350 (velocity 2787 fps) . CCI BR4 Primers. S&B PMII (the "de-milled military 5-25 version). Elite Iron BiPod. TBAC Ultra 9 (6.5).

It doesn't look like 5 shots, but it is.


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Numbered (in no particular order)

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Follow up group first four out of five shots:

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So that guy's parents telling everyone they never had a child and proud of that decision.
 
Anyone know of any source or if they even make them anymore

Forend stock sides for AT in FDE

Thinking of getting a fde kit for my AT. Can find the thumbhole on MH and sporting services but MH and Euro don’t have them listed or say discontinued
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The Keymod +2 fits the AI keyslot. I briefly used the +2 and had no issues attaching it before deciding I didn't have a use for it and relegating it to the parts bin.
Ah, so @clefairy might be mixing up the name.

I didn’t know about keymod +2…I wonder if they paid AI for “licensing” or if it’s something like they cannot claim it works with keyslot in advertising?

Off to check out Keymod +2!
 
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There's no denying that the lockup and repeatability of Keylock is superior to both Keymod and MLOK but the little angled wankers aren't aesthetically pleasing lol.

I wish I could thumbs up and laugh at the same time to this post. Yeah, the KeySlot is a pretty damn solid setup.
 


How I'll be running my AI for the 2025 season..

Can't wait for the Gray Ops AW .308 mags!

I have 2 of the grayops cnc 308 mags. They don’t fit in an AT-LE or AT-X. Pretty disappointing for 200 dollar mags.

I had to sand the fuck out of them to get them to fit, and they still won’t reliably feed 6.5 creed which is wild.
 
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How the fuck did you score spare bolts.
They do runs of them once in a while. The last run MH, euro and Mountic all had bolts at the same time. I bought two of them. SFP bolts. One is at black canyon customs being converted for WSM cartridges

That’s one thing about AI. They do things in runs. So if you have a wish list then be ready when that item becomes available. The next shipment will likely be a year out or more

MH hooked me up today with my DE skin set. Super awesome to deal with and they carry stuff not listed on the website. So calling them or euro when you are looking for something is the best way to go.

FYI I just ordered 2 cheek piece thumb screws for my second AIAT. I have the AI logo ones on my other and they look much better than the Amazon specials I have on this one I orders skins for. These don’t have logos on them but I don’t care about that

Link for anyone interested. 8 left in stock. I know we had several members trying to locate some a while back. Same 20333 number listed on euros site
 
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They do runs of them once in a while. The last run MH, euro and Mountic all had bolts at the same time. I bought two of them. SFP bolts. One is at black canyon customs being converted for WSM cartridges

That’s one thing about AI. They do things in runs. So if you have a wish list then be ready when that item becomes available. The next shipment will likely be a year out or more

MH hooked me up today with my DE skin set. Super awesome to deal with and they carry stuff not listed on the website. So calling them or euro when you are looking for something is the best way to go.

FYI I just ordered 2 cheek piece thumb screws for my second AIAT. I have the AI logo ones on my other and they look much better than the Amazon specials I have on this one I orders skins for. These don’t have logos on them but I don’t care about that

Link for anyone interested. 8 left in stock. I know we had several members trying to locate some a while back. Same 20333 number listed on euros site
If I can get another bolt to run 6.5PRC in my AT-X I would likely get rid of my AXSR. Going to sign up everywhere for notifications.
 
They do runs of them once in a while. The last run MH, euro and Mountic all had bolts at the same time. I bought two of them. SFP bolts. One is at black canyon customs being converted for WSM cartridges

That’s one thing about AI. They do things in runs. So if you have a wish list then be ready when that item becomes available. The next shipment will likely be a year out or more

MH hooked me up today with my DE skin set. Super awesome to deal with and they carry stuff not listed on the website. So calling them or euro when you are looking for something is the best way to go.

FYI I just ordered 2 cheek piece thumb screws for my second AIAT. I have the AI logo ones on my other and they look much better than the Amazon specials I have on this one I orders skins for. These don’t have logos on them but I don’t care about that

Link for anyone interested. 8 left in stock. I know we had several members trying to locate some a while back. Same 20333 number listed on euros site
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And backorder that shit if you want it! Don’t do notifications!

Yeah, you gotta put all the cash up front, but you didn’t get into AI’s for the financials, didja?
 
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And backorder that shit if you want it! Don’t do notifications!

Yeah, you gotta put all the cash up front, but you didn’t get into AI’s for the financials, didja?
That's my trick for how I got my 2nd ATX bolt. Paid $1k and it arrived 13 months later :p
 
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And backorder that shit if you want it! Don’t do notifications!

Yeah, you gotta put all the cash up front, but you didn’t get into AI’s for the financials, didja?
May work for you wrong handed people but lefties just wait and wait and wait.