Well, yesterday in the morning my wife and I along with a friend went for a little ride up to St. George to pickup my wife's rifle. This was our return trip after ordering the rifle a few months ago. Once again it was an exceptional experience working with Jill and Paul and this time meeting Jay the gentleman that put this rifle together. We received the rifle and spent time with Paul and Jay going over the build and making any final decisions on the rifle before taking delivery. My wife opted to go with a Kidd brake, it's a looks thing. I personally loved the Area 419 brake. At the same time the guys showed us various other rifles including their personal rigs and we had a bunch of questions answered. Paul personally showed my wife and I the proper way to load the Vudoo mag. This experience was like dealing with you own personal custom rifle concierge. Thank you Team Vudoo for an exceptional experience.
On to the rifle. It is a Apparition rifle with an 18" Bartlein Kukri profile barrel, left hand action and 30moa rail. It carries a Timney Calvin Elite trigger set at 1.25lbs. We decided on a MPA BA Lite chassis in a Tungston color. We also added the large bag rider as she will be shooting this in bencherest matches. The fit and finish of the rifle and chassis is PERFECT, thank you Jay.
When we returned home we quickly mounted the scope and were off to the range. I will post a range report with pictures sometime in the next few days. I would like to share one thing at this point though. That is the brilliance of the Controlled Round Feed. The design of this feature and the way it functions is what sets Vudoo apart from every other company and every other rifle, IMHO. I've spent the past year trying to get these results from other rifles and finally realized the futility of the effort, primarily because of the way the fragile 22lr round get abused most of the time.
Yesterday our goal was just to get the rifle setup and scope zeroed. We brought 2 types of ammo with us only planning to shoot one. I had fully expected the SK Rifle Match to shoot well and it did. In the back of my mind though I have hope to see some of the less expensive subsonic ammo perform well. One point yesterday we had an opportunity to run a box of CCI Standard Velocity through it. While we were only shooting at 50 yards I was very happy to see it shoot at least as well as the SK RM. Everything we put out there was sub-moa with almost all of it around 1/2moa+-. This rifle just flat out...SHOOTS!
We're heading back to the range tomorrow afternoon. Over the next few times out we will test another 5 or 6 types of ammo. We'll also be doing a test with 2 different suppressors. Unlike yesterday where we were just too busy having fun shooting, we'll actually bring targets better suited to record results and I'll get those posted. Have I mentioned that... This rifle just flat out...SHOOTS!
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