Christensen Modern Precision Rifle

[ArmedGinger]

No offense but I have to call BS on 3 shots and letting it cool down. My 6.5 PRC gets used in the same manner as PRS shooting strings of 10 rds suppressed. It has 500 rds through it probably and shoots sub MOA. Also, many guys from reputable barrel companies with CF barrels are on this site, including Frank Green, and I’ve never seen anyone support the idea of shooting 3 shots and having to cool the barrel or you’ll cook it. I realize heat is the devil but come on, thats is ridiculous. Hell, no one would ever buy one if that was the case.

Just passing along the info that we were told from CA about their Carbon Barrels. Three shots and let it cool completely.

 

[snorkle]

Just passing along the info that we were told from CA about their Carbon Barrels. Three shots and let it cool completely.

I get you're just the messenger but this is ridiculous for a company to say as if it justifies the problem.

Of course you need to let the barrel cool, but cool completely after three shots? Lol. Why not just say "Our Barrels are suboptimal"? Nobody in their right mind would ever buy a precision barrel that needs to cool completely after 3 shots. Or maybe I just haven't seen enough competitions where you take 3 shots

 

[ArmedGinger]

I get you're just the messenger but this is ridiculous for a company to say as if it justifies the problem.

Of course you need to let the barrel cool, but cool completely after three shots? Lol. Why not just say "Our Barrels are suboptimal"? Nobody in their right mind would ever buy a precision barrel that needs to cool completely after 3 shots. Or maybe I just haven't seen enough competitions where you take 3 shots

According to them, their Carbon barrels aren't "precision" barrels but "hunting" barrels. At least to the rep I talked to about it. Im not trying to change people's minds about them. I sell them and our gunsmiths does Canada's Warranty work on them. We've had only a few come back for warranty issues. These generally have the barrels swapped to a Proof Carbon barrel and out the door they go. I don't remember ever seeing a steel barrelled CA rifle come back due to accuracy issues.

I personally went with a steel barrel because the rep told me that I could shoot longer strings between cooling. That being said I wanted a Carbon Barrel Ridgeline go through probably 200 rounds of 6.5 creedmoor in one and a half days without losing accuracy. The barrel got hot enough to at least partially melt the sticker on the barrel.

 

[snorkle]

Still...a hunting barrel that can only take 3 shots? There is obviously a problem

 

[db2000]

I get you're just the messenger but this is ridiculous for a company to say as if it justifies the problem.

Of course you need to let the barrel cool, but cool completely after three shots? Lol. Why not just say "Our Barrels are suboptimal"? Nobody in their right mind would ever buy a precision barrel that needs to cool completely after 3 shots. Or maybe I just haven't seen enough competitions where you take 3 shots

Pardon me RO, could you please be so kind as to pause the timer indefinitely while my barrel cools?

 

[Spuzzcat]

According to them, their Carbon barrels aren't "precision" barrels but "hunting" barrels. At least to the rep I talked to about it.

In all fairness, the rifle is a Christensen Arms MPR, which stands for Modern Precision Rifle, according to their marketing materials. I think it is reasonable to presume that a modern precision rifle with a sub-MOA guarantee will do better than 2"-5" groups that are all over the place. I get there can be a bad barrel now and then. My frustration is that they say they have met their guarantee and won't do anything to make it right. I just want what I paid for, a sub-MOA modern precision rifle.

 

[ArmedGinger]

In all fairness, the rifle is a Christensen Arms MPR, which stands for Modern Precision Rifle, according to their marketing materials. I think it is reasonable to presume that a modern precision rifle with a sub-MOA guarantee will do better than 2"-5" groups that are all over the place. I get there can be a bad barrel now and then. My frustration is that they say they have met their guarantee and won't do anything to make it right. I just want what I paid for, a sub-MOA modern precision rifle.

I'm with you on that. If you were in Canada I'd say send it in to me and I'd personally look at it and shoot it and give an honest opinion. I don't doubt your claims and I understand your frustration. In my opinion you deserve a replacement barrel.

 

[Spuzzcat]

Update on the CA 300 WM. I contacted CA again and had a candid discussion regarding the options. I also sent them pics of targets. They said I should just use the one factory load that they used to test the gun and that appears to shoot relatively okay in the rifle. They will not do anything else; no refund, no barrel swap, no retest, nothing. Guess I won't be a CA customer anymore, ever. I hesitated buying a CA because of some of the online reviews but I ultimately decided to buy it, thinking it couldn't be as bad as some say. Well....it really is that bad. Horrible firearm!

 

[artofthepoint]

Hi bud, What factory load did they tell you to use? Just fyi, I have two of there rifles the CA-10 DMR .308 Win Match 18" & the Christensen Arms Modern Precision Rifle .308 Win 16" 1:10" All I do is casual target shooting. The Mpr i shoot a hundred rounds at a time usually hand loads or Fed 168 grain match and it has always been rock solid. DMR I shoot about the same and can normally drill out a bullseye at 100 yards. Both my rifles are 2-3 years old. I dont know if they have changed them much over the last few years. I am old and shaky and figured they could shoot better with a better shooter. The reason I went with those two rifles was purely one factor - they were the lightest weight i could find. I have some health issues and have found the lighter the better. I wish I loaded 300 WM so I could see if that would help you. I would call and ask them to talk to the owner. Maybe that would get there attention. For an American Co, they should be bending over backwards to help their customers.

 

[Spuzzcat]

Hi bud, What factory load did they tell you to use? Just fyi, I have two of there rifles the CA-10 DMR .308 Win Match 18" & the Christensen Arms Modern Precision Rifle .308 Win 16" 1:10" All I do is casual target shooting. The Mpr i shoot a hundred rounds at a time usually hand loads or Fed 168 grain match and it has always been rock solid. DMR I shoot about the same and can normally drill out a bullseye at 100 yards. Both my rifles are 2-3 years old. I dont know if they have changed them much over the last few years. I am old and shaky and figured they could shoot better with a better shooter. The reason I went with those two rifles was purely one factor - they were the lightest weight i could find. I have some health issues and have found the lighter the better. I wish I loaded 300 WM so I could see if that would help you. I would call and ask them to talk to the owner. Maybe that would get there attention. For an American Co, they should be bending over backwards to help their customers.

CA said I should only shoot Barnes VOR-TX 180gr TTSX BT ammo.

 

[ArmedGinger]

CA said I should only shoot Barnes VOR-TX 180gr TTSX BT ammo.

This still bugs me that they are treating you like this. We literally just rebarreled a rifle because it wouldn't shoot under 2 MOA and it was covered by warranty.

 

[vscorsa]

Hi All, there appears to be a new version out and was referenced above with the different carbon pattern. Is that the only update or is there more to it?

Trying to work out which 338LM to go.

Thanks

 

[ArmedGinger]

Hi All, there appears to be a new version out and was referenced above with the different carbon pattern. Is that the only update or is there more to it?

Trying to work out which 338LM to go.

Thanks

Yup, everything is same except the Carbon Pattern.

 

[vscorsa]

Thanks for the quick response!

 

[ufg8rmike]

A bud of mine also has one of these in 300 wm, and its all over the place. We thought it was the slop in the folding stock.


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[Thriller]

Christensen is really turning out junk these days in the big bores. Folks in our group who have a 6.5, .223, .308 from them are shooting good sub-moa accuracy, but EVERYONE I talk to that has a CF in a 300 win mag, 300 PRC, etc is having accuracy issues (2 shots touching then massive flyer, or 2moa or worse in general). On top of that, they aren’t supporting their warranty, in many cases claiming “shooter error”. I don’t get it and will not be buying any more guns from them. Too many other makers who give a rip.

 

[Tengo1]

Anyone get their hands on the new MPR PRO competition model?

 

[Siete Sinco]

Well I originally bought a Christensen 308 MPR competition and shot some LC Lr though it. Couldn’t get it to group below 2 MOA.

I thought it was maybe the ammo or just me being a shitty shooter.

Well traded it in for an MPA Curtis action 308 and got .3 MOA with the same lot ammo.

I think if I was to ever own a CA again it would be for a 6.5 creed hunting rig.

The carbon hand guard was neat but it had too much flex on it.

 

[SpokaneAggie]

They’re very hit or miss (no pun intended) I’ve found. Mine I can cold bore a 3/4 MOA target at 1000 consistently but my buddy’s can’t hit the broad side of a barn (and he’s the better shooter than me when we’re using the same equipment)

 

[db2000]

They’re very hit or miss (no pun intended) I’ve found. Mine I can cold bore a 3/4 MOA target at 1000 consistently but my buddy’s can’t hit the broad side of a barn (and he’s the better shooter than me when we’re using the same equipment)

I’ve written this before so I’ll save the long version but tell your buddy to call CA and they’ll make it right with shipping on their dime. They went above and beyond for me with a loose hinge on the folding stock and replaced the barrel without asking after I had put 600 or so rounds through it thinking it was ok for me shooting it. 1 moa for 10 shot groups before they replaced it for “not being to their accuracy standard”.

 

[Rogerthatout]

Well I originally bought a Christensen 308 MPR competition and shot some LC Lr though it. Couldn’t get it to group below 2 MOA.

I thought it was maybe the ammo or just me being a shitty shooter.

Well traded it in for an MPA Curtis action 308 and got .3 MOA with the same lot ammo.

I think if I was to ever own a CA again it would be for a 6.5 creed hunting rig.

The carbon hand guard was neat but it had too much flex on it.

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i got very lucky, my rifle is just blessed, it shoots amazing which is why it’s a sad day to let it go. I hear ya, they have mixed results. This was a winner after coming back from factory

 

[Siete Sinco]

i got very lucky, my rifle is just blessed, it shoots amazing which is why it’s a sad day to let it go. I hear ya, they have mixed results. This was a winner after coming back from factory

I will say that it’s probably the best looking gun out there. But very sad, I’m thinking that maybe it would be much better if you throw a custom reamed barrel on it.

 

[bf2junky]

I was looking at these guys for a .300 PRC factory gun. Not anymore!!

 

[Tremor]

Seems to be very hit or miss, I recently purchased a MPR in 300wm and I'm impressed with the accuracy. Haven't done a ton of shooting yet but I have consistently shot .5 - .75 moa groups with factory ammo

 

[SlimJim_]

Seems to be very hit or miss, I recently purchased a MPR in 300wm and I'm impressed with the accuracy. Haven't done a ton of shooting yet but I have consistently shot .5 - .75 moa groups with factory ammo

I've been looking at them for a while, if I do end up buying one, I'll probably get the MPR Competition model since it has the heavy barrel. Not really a fan of the carbon fiber wrapped barrel for a target gun.

 

[Alaska]

I have had a early Christensen since 2013. A Rem 700 action and carbon fiber wrapped barrel I installed a HS precision detachable Magazine kit to it. A 338 Win Mag and one of my most prized rifles to hunt with in Alaska.
IMR 4350 @ 71 with 225gr Swift A Frame in Nosler Brass with WLRM primers.
The things I like about the carbon wrapped barrel is less weight / stiffness and cooling factor. I have harvested 4 bull Moose with this rifle. I did add a Timney Trigger to it. It has a Sako extractor and dual ejectors. It’s a tack driver.

 

[Morobeachbum]

So I’m trying to decide between the sig cross and Christensen arms modern precision in a 308. Will be used mostly for hind but would like to ring some steal also. Any advice pros and cons. Thanks

 

[Bozeman.Man]

So I’m trying to decide between the sig cross and Christensen arms modern precision in a 308. Will be used mostly for hind but would like to ring some steal also. Any advice pros and cons. Thanks

I have both, I shoot both(a lot) and they are both tack drivers.. One in 6.5cr and one in 6.5prc. I reach for my cross most of the time. The lighter, smaller package is just so convenient and easy to carry around. I find myself mainly using the MPR for the occasional NRL hunter match or similar.

 

[Dude in GP]

According to them, their Carbon barrels aren't "precision" barrels but "hunting" barrels. At least to the rep I talked to about it. Im not trying to change people's minds about them. I sell them and our gunsmiths does Canada's Warranty work on them. We've had only a few come back for warranty issues. These generally have the barrels swapped to a Proof Carbon barrel and out the door they go. I don't remember ever seeing a steel barrelled CA rifle come back due to accuracy issues.

I personally went with a steel barrel because the rep told me that I could shoot longer strings between cooling. That being said I wanted a Carbon Barrel Ridgeline go through probably 200 rounds of 6.5 creedmoor in one and a half days without losing accuracy. The barrel got hot enough to at least partially melt the sticker on the barrel.

I bought my MPR in 6.5CM back in 2018 with the Carbon Fibre barrel. It was wonky at first with shifting accuracy. I went back and retightened all the screws including the 20moa base. Then i finished breaking the barrel in using CA's procedure. Still quirky until around the 150rd mark, after which both factory and reloaded ammunition worked great. I shot a 13rd group at 500yd as fast as i could get back on target and all shots were just a bit bigger than my palm (~4in) and it was the 14th round that starting shifting significantly, then the 15th and by the 16th, i stopped as all rounds were high right by about 8" from POA.

 

[Rogerthatout]

My carbon fiber MPR .308 is an absolute hammer, it shoots 1/2 moa accuracy w factory loaded Hornady ELDS, both standard and super performance loads. It stacks them. It’s a very accurate rifle, it’s repeatable and I love it. I want to get another one chambered in a .223 .

BTW my .308 is a 16”

 

[zorro13]

I own the MPR in 6.5 and absolutely love it. That being said I was using it to shoot competition ground hog shoots not knowing anything about overheating barrels at all. I just went out and had a blast with it. It lost accuracy after approx 600 to 800 shots. I finally sat down and did a lot of research and decided to get a new barrel for it and keep it as a hunting rifle. I am now trying to decide if I want to get a custom job for competition shoots or if I want to try a AI. Any suggestions out there?

 

[Alaska]

So I’m trying to decide between the sig cross and Christensen arms modern precision in a 308. Will be used mostly for hind but would like to ring some steal also. Any advice pros and cons. Thanks

Ok with 308 win your talking 600 to 800 yards maybe you stretch it to 1K on steel plates.
A Bergara B14 HMR in 308 Win would work perfect under $1000.

 

[epeet]

Brownells was just blowing out the MPR Chassis for around $800, so I bought one, haven't been wanting to try a folding stock. Light, good ergos, kind of crappy adjustments, but decent for a hunting rifle. Lots of sharp edges unexpected places, and their included pic rail was a razor blade. Wish I would have found this thread before and I'd have gone in a different direction.

 

[Rogerthatout]

Brownells was just blowing out the MPR Chassis for around $800, so I bought one, haven't been wanting to try a folding stock. Light, good ergos, kind of crappy adjustments, but decent for a hunting rifle. Lots of sharp edges unexpected places, and their included pic rail was a razor blade. Wish I would have found this thread before and I'd have gone in a different direction.

You want to sell it?

 

[FuhQ]

Just bought a 16” .308 Win MPR tonight. It’s setup in a temporary optics configuration until my new Kahles K624i RSW CCW SKMR4 Scope shows up to go on top.

Currently put my spare new PA SLx 1-10x28 ACSS Griffin M10S on it, in a set of 34mm Seekins rings.

 

[Alaska]

I got banned, Oh No Mr Bill

 

[FuhQ]

Local store had a 16" 7.5" twist MPR in 6mm ARC with the carbon fiber barrel... Decided to pick it up, too. I'll post picks this weekend.

 

[FuhQ]

Meet the twins…

16” 6mm ARC (top) / 16” .308 Win (bottom)



With matching new Kahles K624i CCW RSW SKMR4 scopes in Seekins Precision 1.00” high rings. They just barely clear the handguard, but 1.00” rings are G-2-G on the MPR with a factory 20MOA rail, and 56mm objective.

If anyone is wondering, that is my Otter Creek Labs Hydrogen-S 7.62 on the 6mm ARC, and my Dead Air Nomad-LT on the .308 Win. Both cans are running an Otter Creek Labs ZR0-DTA direct-thread mount. The fit is superb. And they sound just as quiet as they look.

 

[Mike Tackleberry]

I want to replace the barrel on my MPR 6.5, Do i need to use a Remage 1.061X16P?

 

[FuhQ]

Updated pics with the new (correct height) ARC M-BRACE 1.26” 34mm rings, and the scope caps installed.

6 ARC (top), .308 Win (bottom)

 

[FuhQ]

New video is up with my new 16" MPR .308 Win with the Dead Air Nomad-LT...

 

[AznTactical]

I'm glad I found this page and spent about 90 minutes reading posts (the negative ones) and am going to avoid CA. Had a MPR .300 PRC in my cart from EuroOptic but going to just build one now. Wanted to save some money (about $1000) and just buy a factory built one but not worth the potential headaches. ARC Coupe de Grace, Timeny or TriggerTech trigger, XLR Magnesium chassis and Proof Carbon barrel here I come!

 

[FuhQ]

I'm glad I found this page and spent about 90 minutes reading posts (the negative ones) and am going to avoid CA. Had a MPR .300 PRC in my cart from EuroOptic but going to just build one now. Wanted to save some money (about $1000) and just buy a factory built one but not worth the potential headaches. ARC Coupe de Grace, Timeny or TriggerTech trigger, XLR Magnesium chassis and Proof Carbon barrel here I come!

Don’t believe everything you read on the interwebz. Negative voices are often the loudest, because people who are happy with them don’t always jump straight online to give rave reviews…But where’s the first place people go to start bitching about or flaming a product…The internet.

Also, some people just can’t shoot or load precision ammo, and some don’t know how to give a barrel time to settle-in before bitching about groups, and some are trying to shoot factory shit ammo and expecting BR-level precision from it, and then when it won’t do that, they blame the gun.

I’m not saying this is always the case, just saying that after 15+ years on Internet gun forums, this is something I’ve noticed to be very prominent.

 

[AznTactical]

Don’t believe everything you read on the interwebz. Negative voices are often the loudest, because people who are happy with them don’t always jump straight online to give rave reviews…But where’s the first place people go to start bitching about or flaming a product…The internet.

After talking to 3 sales guys from 2 of different dealers and 2 former CA customers they've provided enough feedback that I have spent my money else where.
All 3 sales guys are PRS, ELR and NRL Hunter competitors. They do not recommend CA at all. Even one of those sales guys bought a MPR 6 creedmoor but got a 6.5 creedmoor chamber (barrel is engraved 6 creedmoor). Not sure how this is possible since CA test fires every rifle. CA took over 6 months to warranty his rifle. From that point in he swore to never sell a customer a CA.
Of those 2 customers one had the handguard crack on the mlok slots. CA would not warranty it because they claim his polymer Magpul picatinny rail was over torqued.
Another customer who is a friend of mine and told me this week that his Mesa Titanium blew the muzzle brake off and never found it. He had lodged a .30 cal bullet in the muzzle. Next round blew it apart. CA claimed he wasn't using factory ammo which he was since he doesn't reload.
It's all water under the bridge now and my build has started a few days ago.

 

[FuhQ]

After talking to 3 sales guys from 2 of different dealers and 2 former CA customers they've provided enough feedback that I have spent my money else where.
All 3 sales guys are PRS, ELR and NRL Hunter competitors. They do not recommend CA at all. Even one of those sales guys bought a MPR 6 creedmoor but got a 6.5 creedmoor chamber (barrel is engraved 6 creedmoor). Not sure how this is possible since CA test fires every rifle. CA took over 6 months to warranty his rifle. From that point in he swore to never sell a customer a CA.
Of those 2 customers one had the handguard crack on the mlok slots. CA would not warranty it because they claim his polymer Magpul picatinny rail was over torqued.
Another customer who is a friend of mine and told me this week that his Mesa Titanium blew the muzzle brake off and never found it. He had lodged a .30 cal bullet in the muzzle. Next round blew it apart. CA claimed he wasn't using factory ammo which he was since he doesn't reload.
It's all water under the bridge now and my build has started a few days ago.

Your examples seem odd to me. I would like to see proof that a a 6.5CM barrel was stamped 6 CM and installed on a gun. That’s entirely possible it could happen, but highly unlikely. It has happened before with barrel blank’s from a manufacturer before, but it’s very rare, because they typically run them in batches of the same thing.

Handguard issues, sure, that’s possible, but most-likely the dude did over-torque the thing and caused it himself. But that’s at the mfg’s discretion to replace or warranty.

Your buddy with the Mesa should have checked his muzzle brake before shooting/hunting to ensure everything on his firearm was proper before shooting it. Blowing off the MB was entirely on him. And the fact he had a squib that lodged in the bore, and didn’t notice there was no hole in the target from a sighted-in rifle, and didn’t bother to stop and check, so he decided to just “fuck it, send another one”, and blew it up, was entirely on him, not on CA, and any high-powered rifle from any brand would have blown up if that same thing that had happened to it.

 

[AznTactical]

Your examples seem odd to me. I would like to see proof that a a 6.5CM barrel was stamped 6 CM and installed on a gun. That’s entirely possible it could happen, but highly unlikely. It has happened before with barrel blank’s from a manufacturer before, but it’s very rare, because they typically run them in batches of the same thing.

Your buddy with the Mesa should have checked his muzzle brake before shooting/hunting to ensure everything on his firearm was proper before shooting it. Blowing off the MB was entirely on him. And the fact he had a squib that lodged in the bore, and didn’t notice there was no hole in the target from a sighted-in rifle, and didn’t bother to stop and check, so he decided to just “fuck it, send another one”, and blew it up, was entirely on him, not on CA, and any high-powered rifle from any brand would have blown up if that same thing that had happened to it.

-Yeah it's odd to me. It's rare to have a barrel bore mismatch its engraving to even pass QC when they claim to test fire them before leaving the factory.
-What's even rarer that a team of sales guys that don't know each other personally refuses to sell CA when they have one of the best incentives for dealers to push CA products.
-Yes, my buddy with the Mesa was all on him. I'll give him some grace since he was zeroing at 200 and thought he just missed paper. It was the customer service feedback blaming him that he shouldn't be using reloads but he was using factory .300 PRC ELDX only. He got it back after half a year, sold it and went to Browning.

-You must be a CA schill, CA staff or CA Prostaffer? Look, I gave CA a chance and heard a lot of negative feedback in person that it made me uncomfortable enough so I did own research here to verify what I've heard and it generally seemed true. Have a great day.

 

[FuhQ]

-You must be a CA schill, CA staff or CA Prostaffer? Look, I gave CA a chance and heard a lot of negative feedback in person that it made me uncomfortable enough so I did own research here to verify what I've heard and it generally seemed true. Have a great day.

Nope, none of the above. I have no affiliation to any company. Im just some random guy who knows how to make guns and ammo shoot really well, and I have been doing so for pretty much my entire life.

And I’ve been around guns, people, the average gun owner/hunter, the internet, and even worked in the industry before, long enough to know patterns of when something is probably the gun/mfg or ammo’s fault, or probably the person’s fault.

 

[sg6969]

I haven’t started reloading yet, but found that my rifle absolutely loves Hornady 140 grain ELD match ammo. I go down to a monthly long range shooting competition in Boulder City Nevada pretty regularly. It’s broken up into heavy and light classes. To be in light class, your rifle and scope must be under 12 pounds. I used to compete in heavy class with an FN SPR in .308. Best I ever did was 4th place, and I quickly noticed that of the 20-30 shooters that show up each month, I was probably the only one still shooting .308. Everyone else was probably 75% 6.5 Creedmoor, with the rest being a mix of .260, 6.5 PRC, 6mm Dasher, 6.5x47, etc.

My FN SPR was also my only bolt action rifle. So I’ve had the unpleasant experience of hunting with it, and while it done fine with Antelope, Elk, and Deer, packing a 17+ pound rifle around in the hills sucks. So when I searched for a new rifle, I knew I wanted two things. I wanted it to be light, and I wanted it in 6.5 Creedmoor. I took a decent look at some of the Bergara and Tikka offerings, but have loved the look
of the MPR since I first saw it on the cover of a random gun magazine in an airport. At a standard price of $2,200ish, it was a bit out of my budget (young family, early career, student loans to pay off). Luckily for me, a dealer on gunbroker spelled Christensen wrong, and I got a brand new one in the box for $1,525. Only thing I can think of was the misspelling caused it to avoid some searches, because there were plenty with bids in the $1,900 range at the same time.

Once I had my rifle, I needed a scope, as I don’t want to pull my Leupold Mark 4 off my SPR. I was planning on a Vortex PST 2, but right around the same time my rifle arrived, Nikon announced they were getting out of the rifle scope game, and Eurooptic clearanced the FX-1000 line of scopes for $449, down from $899. Scope rings purchased with the scope were another $100. So all in, I had a new rifle, scope, and rings for right around $2,100. I thought I did pretty good.

Taking the MPR down to the competition, I moved to the light division, as I’m sitting right at 11.5 pounds all together. Right away I moved from the bottom 3rd of competitors in heavy, to taking 2nd place in light division.

And then I took 2nd place every time after. Until last month.

Now to give you an idea of the match. The typical match is 1 MOA square steel plates at 560, 740, 850, 920, and 1,100 yards. So the closests plates are roughly 5 1/2 inches wide and tall, furthest are 11 inches.

The other shooters all reload. Every one of them but me and I buddy I introduced to the match. Almost every gun is custom. There is 1-2 factory Ruger Precision’s, another guy in light division shoots a Q Fix that’s factory. But everything else seems to be a $3,000+ custom built rifle, with custom actions, custom barrels, etc. And everyone else’s scopes are either Vortex Razor, Leupold Mark 5’s, Nightforce, Schmidt & Bender, or other high end brands I’m not even familiar with. Once while walking down the firing line to set up, my buddy made the comment “Man, it’s like we showed up to a Ferrari and Lambo race with a Honda Civic”.

The standard distance plates are all at berms, so you have immediate feedback if you miss. The match used to give you 2 minutes to shoot unlimited sighters, then 4 minutes for 5 shots of record at each distance. With the gun panic making both ammo and reloading parts harder to come by, they’ve changed it this year to 1 sighter, and 3 shots of record. But, if you hit your sighter and all 3 shots of record, your sighter shot counts and you get 4 points instead of 3.

To mix things up, they changed the June competition. Instead of the standard targets at the berms that everyone knows there dope for, they put 8” plates at random spots out in the middle of the sage brush. No berms behind any of them.

(pic of some of the June targets)
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The distances were now 346, 640, 853, 945, and 1,012 yards. The plates were all 8” squares. Not 1 MOA specific to that distance. Because of the amount of shooters, in this case 23, you had to start at different distances and work your up. So I was in heat two, shooting the left target (two at each distance, blue and orange) starting at 853. Then going 945, 1,012, 346, then 640.

This was my set up:
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And yes, it’s factory Hornady ammo. I bought some of the 50 round reloader cases because before the reduced shot count change, I was almost always shooting exactly 50 rounds per competition and it’s easier then packing 3 boxes of ammo. Also, my rear bag is from Walmart. Lol, $15 for the two you see on the table. Rifle behind mine is my buddies. I should also point out that like 10+ of the shooters use the “Phoenix something” bipod you see in the top right of the picture. The damn thing is practically a sled, and should be banned in my opinion.

Anyways, I use the free “bullet drop” app I downloaded to my iPhone, and just keep the basic Hornady 140 ELD info in it, adjusting just the weather info from my iPhones weather app each time I go.
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I think I added 120ish feet per second assuming my SDN-6 might add around that.

Since I was starting at 853 I hit the calculate button to dial my elevation:
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I round up to the 6.1 mils for 860 and let it fly. *PING* I hit it! Cold bore shot at 860 yards was right on target. Sent the next three: PING, PING, PING!! Went 4/4. End of first distance heat, only myself and one other shooter cleaned all 4 shots. And he did it with a almost 30 pound custom heavy rifle shooting 6mm Dasher.

945 yards I hit 2 shots, 1,012 I hit another 2 shots. And it was hard. It had like a false berm:
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It looks like it has a berm, but that hill is actually around 60 yards behind the plate. Lots of guys were hitting the hillside thinking they were close, but they were overshooting the target by quite a bit.

All in all, I had 14 hits out of 20. Taking first place in light weight division. Winner of heavy (same guy with 6mm Dasher) also had 14 hits, but since I had the most hits at the farthest distances, I was declared both light weight division winner and over all match winner.
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I’m not much of a shit talker, so my buddy had fun getting a rise out of the guys shooting their $5,000+ rigs.
“We just lost to a factory gun! Shooting factory ammo! With a $400 scope and a $15 Walmart shooting bag! With a AAC quick detach suppressor! What the hell guys!?”

So for you guys on the fence. The Christensen Arms MPR has some great potential.

great write up!

 

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New video is up with the Christensen Arms MPR 6mm ARC and Otter Creek Labs Hydrogen-S.

 

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New video is up with the Christensen Arms MPR 6mm ARC and Otter Creek Labs Hydrogen-S.

I've debated hard on that same rifle...

What's the accuracy like?