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I am better than all of you now. Sold my AI and now am rocking the Savage 😤
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I am better than all of you now. Sold my AI and now am rocking the Savage 😤View attachment 7987379
That Spuhr may be worth more than the entire rifle. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that combo before!

And I laughed at the tenuous mounting solution lol

Gonna miss seeing ol’ Elite Sand AX around here. Is the new ATX also the Sand of the Elite?
 
Yup, $50 on an AI is a drop in the ocean as said already.
The thumbrest is awesome. It’s functional as the thumb is at readiness to lever/ cycle the bolt. It also seems to be a natural position for me and clearly many others.
I can’t reconcile why AI didn’t make provision for them on the new models…
I also enjoy the retro thumbhole stocks so I’ve the best of both worlds.
Do you or anyone else that uses the thumb rest miss the fact that you no longer have the retention feature for the butt stock when folded?
 
So I shot my Ax with its AI 26” bartlein barrel today.

Only had access to FGMM 130 gr bergers, and some 140 gr match.

Rifle didn’t want to seem to shoot much better than an inch with these two loads…..

is the hornady match that much better of a loading?

I was expecting 1/2 moa, not barely 1 moa.

What’s your guys experiences with the fgmm loadings?
 
So I shot my Ax with its AI 26” bartlein barrel today.

Only had access to FGMM 130 gr bergers, and some 140 gr match.

Rifle didn’t want to seem to shoot much better than an inch with these two loads…..

is the hornady match that much better of a loading?

I was expecting 1/2 moa, not barely 1 moa.

What’s your guys experiences with the fgmm loadings?

I can tell you that just shooting factory Hornady 140gr ELD I've been consistently getting less than 0.5MOA, so something definitely seems off.
 
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So I shot my Ax with its AI 26” bartlein barrel today.

Only had access to FGMM 130 gr bergers, and some 140 gr match.

Rifle didn’t want to seem to shoot much better than an inch with these two loads…..

is the hornady match that much better of a loading?

I was expecting 1/2 moa, not barely 1 moa.

What’s your guys experiences with the fgmm loadings?
I ordered a couple of boxes of the FGMM with the 130 grain Bergers. Should be here next week. I have shot the Berger made cartridge with the 130 several times with great (<0.5 MOA) success. Hornady 140 ELDM is my go to as it always shoots great.
 
Do you or anyone else that uses the thumb rest miss the fact that you no longer have the retention feature for the butt stock when folded?


My “retro”, retrofit of the plastic Thumbhole stock folds left so I still have a capturing folder if I choose to use it.
Having said that, I also just use the folder to clean including on my Vision AT+AX buttstock that has lost the retainer to the thumbrest. Don’t miss it.
 
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How you finding the Hardy barrel?
I'm guessing you didn't have to send your rifle from Aus to NZ to get it fitted? They just did it as a prefit?
Have only fired 200 rounds through it so far (fire forming virgin lapua) but, it did put out a 10 shot 0.45 MOA group at 100m with 108gr ELDM and zero load development... It was 'prefit' by APRS (a reputable gunsmith) down here in Australia based off one of their shop AI AT's.

The 6BR is a 2023 project, hoping to get that going as the go-to PRS barrel.
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Do you or anyone else that uses the thumb rest miss the fact that you no longer have the retention feature for the butt stock when folded?
As others have stated, I also only fold mine for cleaning. That being said, in my experience the AI folding mechanism is so tight that I'd say the retention 'feature' is pretty unnecessary anyway.
 
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After 10 months i finally finished my L115A3 clone... Scope mount with Simrad rail and thermal mount was very hard to find..but a friend from SBS helped me....i love it....xD
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This just in:

Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omnipotent creator-deity worshipped by billions and billions of followers of various faiths for many millennia, angrily clarified His longtime stance on color of rifles.

“Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,” said the Lord, His divine face betraying more than a little emotion during a press conference near the site of @Krob95 ’s new ATX.

“Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to paint their rifles other colors than Sage Green. Well, I don’t. And to be honest, I’m really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to paint their rifle some weak-sauce color named Elite Sand or the abominable ‘Black’ Multicam, but I am specifically commanding you to only use the color of the lush and verdant Earth that I your Lord God created for you.”

“That is all.”
 
This just in:

Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omnipotent creator-deity worshipped by billions and billions of followers of various faiths for many millennia, angrily clarified His longtime stance on color of rifles.

“Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,” said the Lord, His divine face betraying more than a little emotion during a press conference near the site of @Krob95 ’s new ATX.

“Somehow, people keep coming up with the idea that I want them to paint their rifles other colors than Sage Green. Well, I don’t. And to be honest, I’m really getting sick and tired of it. Get it straight. Not only do I not want anybody to paint their rifle some weak-sauce color named Elite Sand or the abominable ‘Black’ Multicam, but I am specifically commanding you to only use the color of the lush and verdant Earth that I your Lord God created for you.”

“That is all.”
Sage Green will always be the AI master race. The competition is always fighting for 2nd place