Enclosed it the total reconfiguration of what was a very heavy benchrest rifle, my .408 Wildcat. I needed to lighten it for two reasons. The first is I am old and lugging it from vehicle to bench was becoming too much for me. Secondarily, I might want to dabble with the ELR competition although I am not sure if I have the gas money to go way West from my home on the Atlantic. I will not be able to shoot it over 1k for another 3 weeks or so and must travel 250 miles and 850 miles to get to one of two private ranges set up for 1 mile.
I will continue carrying it around on my ground hog safaris to Pa and Ohio in case I find somewhere I can best my long range kill record to date. Tough on the East Coast for a big boomer because of noise and lack of proper backstops ( HILLS!)
It features the McMillian Beast 2 (thanks for the help from Kelly) , a Prarie Gun Works Action, a K&P 36 inch barrel, Jewell long trigger and my antique USO SN-9 scope with 240 MOA built in and is 10-42 power. I will likely be using what I already shot which is a 421.5 (labeled as 419) Lost River solid at 3070 for best repeatability. Life should be better now with availability of Peterson brass since I ran out of the original Hornesberger (from Cheytac). I have no idea how suitable the scope will be for ELR at over 1 mile but suspect it will do fine.
Smithed by Billy Dale Custom Rifles.
I will continue carrying it around on my ground hog safaris to Pa and Ohio in case I find somewhere I can best my long range kill record to date. Tough on the East Coast for a big boomer because of noise and lack of proper backstops ( HILLS!)
It features the McMillian Beast 2 (thanks for the help from Kelly) , a Prarie Gun Works Action, a K&P 36 inch barrel, Jewell long trigger and my antique USO SN-9 scope with 240 MOA built in and is 10-42 power. I will likely be using what I already shot which is a 421.5 (labeled as 419) Lost River solid at 3070 for best repeatability. Life should be better now with availability of Peterson brass since I ran out of the original Hornesberger (from Cheytac). I have no idea how suitable the scope will be for ELR at over 1 mile but suspect it will do fine.
Smithed by Billy Dale Custom Rifles.
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