Couple updates for you guys. The elite iron leg extensions are superb. The guy claims he sells the 2-1/2 inch extensions at about three times the rate of the 1-1/2 extensions and I guess I see why. I got the one and a half for the SRS and the 2-1/2 for the HTI and I’m happy with that choice but the 1-1/2 don’t raise it very much, go figure, and the 2-1/2 would only be too high if you built a really low shooting position with your rifle so I’m going to recommend going with 2-1/2 leg extensions for your elite iron bipods.
Another thing, and you probably already discovered this, if you take a 12 gauge brush and wrap a small section of rag around it on a pistol rod, it is about the perfect size to clean out the bolt Raceway, which I have to do every time I go shooting in the desert like I did today, because of the dust and crud that accumulates in there. If it gets really dusty, I just take out the barrel and hose down the entire rifle in the backyard and then blow out the water with an air compressor and let it dry somewhere warm. I’ve been doing this for years and haven’t noticed any problems with rust or other crud accumulating in the chassis.
Finally, you can see in the picture that I run an MK machining sled in my SRS and I just sent Tyler a 375 magazine last week so he is going to be designing a single shot sled for the HTI. I find that I rarely run the mag, and I’m generally single feeding For most of my shooting, which is Long Range steel.
By the way, that’s my 10 year old 308 barrel that I got from PR driver and it has easily 6000 to 7000 rounds on it. Based on careful measurements over time, the throat has eroded 0.050 but it still shoots like a house on fire with a 178ELD powered by reloader 15 or VARGET getting 2650 to 2675 from a 22.5 inch barrel.