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Wow. First few posts in here huh. Welcome back everyone. Once you get here.
Just a heads up, a Wheeler AR vise will hold the reciever while doing a barrel change with no marks to upper. Best $23 bucks I ever spent. Works on RPR and all my AR's
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First post. Just got my 308 RPR Friday. Read most of the last two threads over at Scout. Awesome info in here. Hope to get to shooting it soon. Even thinking of doing a shoot in two weeks just for fun.
^ Nice. I have the .308 as well. I'm sure you'll be very satisfied.
So I see you can get the 175 SMK's with a moly coating. Anyone ever use moly coated bullets? Notice much of a difference?
So I see you can get the 175 SMK's with a moly coating. Anyone ever use moly coated bullets? Notice much of a difference?
Good to see people making it over from Scout to the new........old SH.
Finally got to shoot mine with the Timney trigger. Awesome.
Well 1300 rounds down the factory barrel. The throat has grown to a point where I can't load in a mag and still be .020 off of the lands. The rifle still shoots sub-half moa though so I'm still staying with the factory 6.5CM barrel. How much life should I expect from this barrel....2,000, 2,500.... what say ye?
Yeah I got locked out cause I didn't realize I'd have to register again with this user name. I'm all good with this site.
The LS has had several and still has a .308 for $1249.00 and it keeps calling my name............I was thinking about getting it for my wife, you know for Valentines day.
Here is a photo of mine from the last club match. Timney trigger, Seekins handguard, PRS stock, LRI bolt 
handle + shroud, JP one piece scope mount, Vortex Razor Gen 2 and SEB Joypod
handle + shroud, JP one piece scope mount, Vortex Razor Gen 2 and SEB Joypod
6.5CM Gen2,
PRS Gen3 buttstock,
Ergo Tactical Deluxe Grip,
Bushnell ERS with H59,
Badger rings,
Badger Bolt Knob,
MI 18" Handguard,
Atlas PSR bipod,
CTK Precision magazine release extension.
New ambi safety in the works and possibly the Timney trigger.
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nice to have this info back on this site......good info on the wheeler action vise
I used the Wheeler vice to swap out a .308 factory barrel to a6.5 factory barrel, and it worked great for me also. Now I have a RPR in .308 and 6.5
Lefty,
They were popular a few years back but I think some folks are concerned with the moly being left in the barrel and hard to clean out. Also something about trapping moisture under the coating and causing corrosion. Do a search on moly coated bullets before buying any.
Hey thanks for the heads up. I thought they might squeeze a little more velocity out of my 20" barrel, but I'll steer clear of them. It's nothing I really need anyway.
My .308 has been all about Nosler, and still is out to 600. However, I'm using a very similar 175 SMK load that actually outshined Nosler at 1000
I'm using the same load but with only 43.2 gr Varget. So if yours are grouping well at 488, I'd expect them to do just fine at 1000 as well.
I'd like to see someone with the .308 and the proper barrel/base take a shot at a mile
howdy fellas, just picked up a gen2 rpr in 6.5 creed. can anyone help with ring height for a uso 5-25 with 58 objective
Went out yesterday and shot the Nosler 168gr with their recommendation of 44gr Varget. They produced the same 1/2 MOA accuracy at 100 yards as my 42gr starter load, except I think these will do even better at 600 yards. Now I can save my 175gr SMK for 1000 yards
I have a RPR 6.5CM with an LRI bolt shroud, Magpul stock, and Timney trigger. Im just replaced my Vortex Viper PST 6x24 with a Burris 8x40. What scopes are you using?
Just saying hi from Jacksonville, FL... Been waiting for my lgs to get RPRs in stock for almost a year while watching other shops get them. I've been patient since he has always taken care of us and it enabled me to stall the inevitable spend lol. During my wait and asking about the RPR so much it piqued 2 of my shooting buddy's interest and they have also put in orders for RPRs so now we have 2 in our group and one more on the way lol. Without further ado onto the pics
Gen 2 6.5 CM
Burris XTR II 8-40 X 50
Burris High (1.5") XTR Signature Rings
Seekins Red Ambi Selector
Magpul MOE +Grip
Harris Swivel 6-9 bipod with KMW Pod-Loc
Here's a couple pics of some of my better groups from 100yards. These were shot with Hornady super performance 129gr factory loads. I've got a lot to learn and bad habits to break but I am really looking forward to getting more time behind this baby.
First shot was the one that was way off so I grabbed a measurement w/o it
measuring the group including the one I yanked
LOVING IT!
Gen 2 6.5 CM
Burris XTR II 8-40 X 50
Burris High (1.5") XTR Signature Rings
Seekins Red Ambi Selector
Magpul MOE +Grip
Harris Swivel 6-9 bipod with KMW Pod-Loc
Here's a couple pics of some of my better groups from 100yards. These were shot with Hornady super performance 129gr factory loads. I've got a lot to learn and bad habits to break but I am really looking forward to getting more time behind this baby.
First shot was the one that was way off so I grabbed a measurement w/o it
measuring the group including the one I yanked
LOVING IT!
I ordered the 308w in a 24" Barrel now I'm debating whether I want to go to the 6.5. As I'll be tempted to shoot out to 1000yards.
.308 with 24" barrel?? My .308 with 20" shoots just fine and dandy at 1000
