I was tired of heavy rifles so I asked aka-Spook to make me a lighter tactical rifle. Spook built me a 300 Whisper on a Howa action that shot very well so I asked him if he could build me a 260 on a Howa action. He said sure thing . I had him true the action and chamber and fit a Krieger varmint profile barrel with a Badger Thruster brake. I told him I wanted a min spec chamber to match my other 260. He had me send a dummy round to get a custom reamer made. When I got the barreled action I skim bedded it into a B&C Howa varmint stock. The stock had already been sent to Jeff at CDI for his excellant bottom metal. You will also see a bolt knob that I got from the boy who is selling them for $15 here at SH. It was a pain milling and threading the bolt handle but finally got it threaded. I am sending it off to be 'nitrided' later so I just screwed it on for now. I broke in the barrel according to Krieger. It fouled badly until rd 6. Cleaned between groups and chronographed rds. The 1st rd was always out of the group. 3 rd group- .62. 5 rd - .54, .425 ( 1 rd lost focus on crosshairs ), .46 . This is discounting first rd of each group, which I plotted on paper that was always .3-.7 outside the rest of the group. These were loads that were shooting about .45 out of my other 260 Rem rifle. It was a little windy and I am not really a benchrest shooter . I am sure this will be one of my most accurate rifles. I also noted that velocity jumped 27 f/s on the final 5 shot group and SD dropped to 4 from 9 for previous groups. To me this is the sign of a broken in barrel.
My shooting partner will post pictures in about 4 hrs when he gets off work. I wanted to thank Aka Spook for doing a great job and to give a thumbs up for CDI and the boy who did the bolt knob. Only problem I had was I had to run a tap into the bolt knob because threads were a little rough. By the way rifle weighs 10 lbs with 26" barrel, brake, and empty mag. 12lbs with scope and rings.
david
My shooting partner will post pictures in about 4 hrs when he gets off work. I wanted to thank Aka Spook for doing a great job and to give a thumbs up for CDI and the boy who did the bolt knob. Only problem I had was I had to run a tap into the bolt knob because threads were a little rough. By the way rifle weighs 10 lbs with 26" barrel, brake, and empty mag. 12lbs with scope and rings.
david
