I built my own, because finding a 300blk that I wanted wasn't really out there; everything had baggage associated with it so I started with a clean slate.
Well...mainly I got an ARC Nucleus on sale last Thanksgiving and realized I didn't have a plan for it, so I made one
ARC Nucleus, Preferred Barrels 9" 1/7" 300blk with a Sig taper, JTAC Screech Owl chassis, PMM "Kate Moss" stock, with a super early rev Dead Air Nomad-30 on the end of it, and a TriggerTech special on bottom. On top is an ancient 2001-ish Tasco Super Sniper 10x, which works for now...I've got another optic on order for it. I ordered the barrel and filed the paperwork to SBR it the same week; I got the SBR stamp back about a month before the barrel showed up Not a knock on Preferred; all the barrel makers/fitters are slammed these days. Anyway the barrel just showed up on Friday, and yesterday I took it out just to make sure it wasn't a basket of shit.
This was my best group at 50 yards; 5 rounds, round #s 61-65, Sig factory 220gr OTM subsonics:
Yeah yeah only 50 yards, I get it...but with a janky not-exactly-precision chassis and stock, on an action I slapped together using an old AR barrel vice and cut up blue jeans as a vice jaw insert, I'll freaking take it. When the optic I ordered for it comes in and I'm able to mount that, I'll take it back out and zero at 100 yards just because.
The only issues I had with it were mag/feed related; Ruger .223 AICS mags don't feed at all so that's a wash; Magpul 223 AICS mags feed 3-4 rounds then rounds nosedive; you need to yank the mag and reseat the rounds and resume...the only mags that worked %100 were MDT plastic 223 AICS mags. But they are TIGHT...you need to really manhandle them in and out, not something you can do one-handed when seated or with the gun shouldered, really. At least not on mine. They seem a little wide for the stock; some rub/burnishing marks on both sides of the mag where it makes contact. I've got a few more on order now that I know they fit and work, even if they are tight.
Was it worth an expensive action, barrel, chassis, and time? Eh...maybe not really unless you have a varmint problem and need something small to pack in/out and hunt with? For a toy it's fun, though expensive. It is nice that you can fold it up to a tiny thing and shove it in a backpack...
I think money wise I'm a bit under a Q Mini Fix pistol and maybe even a little under a Christensen MPP, especially when you factor in the price of the stock and stamp which you'd need for both of those anyway.
Well...mainly I got an ARC Nucleus on sale last Thanksgiving and realized I didn't have a plan for it, so I made one
ARC Nucleus, Preferred Barrels 9" 1/7" 300blk with a Sig taper, JTAC Screech Owl chassis, PMM "Kate Moss" stock, with a super early rev Dead Air Nomad-30 on the end of it, and a TriggerTech special on bottom. On top is an ancient 2001-ish Tasco Super Sniper 10x, which works for now...I've got another optic on order for it. I ordered the barrel and filed the paperwork to SBR it the same week; I got the SBR stamp back about a month before the barrel showed up Not a knock on Preferred; all the barrel makers/fitters are slammed these days. Anyway the barrel just showed up on Friday, and yesterday I took it out just to make sure it wasn't a basket of shit.
This was my best group at 50 yards; 5 rounds, round #s 61-65, Sig factory 220gr OTM subsonics:
Yeah yeah only 50 yards, I get it...but with a janky not-exactly-precision chassis and stock, on an action I slapped together using an old AR barrel vice and cut up blue jeans as a vice jaw insert, I'll freaking take it. When the optic I ordered for it comes in and I'm able to mount that, I'll take it back out and zero at 100 yards just because.
The only issues I had with it were mag/feed related; Ruger .223 AICS mags don't feed at all so that's a wash; Magpul 223 AICS mags feed 3-4 rounds then rounds nosedive; you need to yank the mag and reseat the rounds and resume...the only mags that worked %100 were MDT plastic 223 AICS mags. But they are TIGHT...you need to really manhandle them in and out, not something you can do one-handed when seated or with the gun shouldered, really. At least not on mine. They seem a little wide for the stock; some rub/burnishing marks on both sides of the mag where it makes contact. I've got a few more on order now that I know they fit and work, even if they are tight.
Was it worth an expensive action, barrel, chassis, and time? Eh...maybe not really unless you have a varmint problem and need something small to pack in/out and hunt with? For a toy it's fun, though expensive. It is nice that you can fold it up to a tiny thing and shove it in a backpack...
I think money wise I'm a bit under a Q Mini Fix pistol and maybe even a little under a Christensen MPP, especially when you factor in the price of the stock and stamp which you'd need for both of those anyway.