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[balongshore]

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@walkerrifles gives a quick tour of this stunning rifle build including Tier-One Cantilever Monomount and carbon Tactical bipod. Full build specs include: .300 PRC PRS Competition Rifle • BAT Machine HR Action. • Manners MCS - T4A Carbon Elite Stock - Scorched Earth Finish. • Brux .30 cal, 1-9 REM Varmint Cut Rifle Barrel. • TAC Brake T1000 Muzzle Brake. • Bix N Andy TAC Sport Trigger. Accessories • US Optics 3.2 - 17 FDN - 17X. • Trijicon Reflex Sight. • Tier-One Cantilever Monomount. • Tier-One Carbon Fibre Tactical Bipod. • #gun #guns #gunsmith #carbon #carbonfiber #bipod #cantilever #monomount #tactical #tacticalgear #precision #precisionrifle #longrangeshooting #longrange #mannersstocks #bruxbarrels #bixnandy #muzzlebrake #prsshooting #tacticalrifle #longrangeprecision #precisionshooter #precisionrifleleague #trijicon #tierone #tieroneeu #tieroneusa https://www.instagram.com/p/CUK28S2M7Qm/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fuckyeahguns-ig]

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[cstactical]

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[azws]

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[kineticperformancellc]

Product Review: SWFA Super Sniper Rifle Scopes.

Every year new optical companies pop up and guys buy from them. Nobody would ever grow to be a great company without support from shooters but a lot of companies make really mediocre stuff. Just because a company is little known does not mean that they do not, or cannot, make good scopes though. Compared to large companies like Leupold, Nikon, Nightforce, etc SWFA is what I would call a little guy. SWFA has been around for a number of years but I would guess most shooters and hunters have not heard of them. They are primarily a a distributor of other companies’ wares but they also have their own line of optics that are called the Super Sniper (affectionately know by their fans as Super Chicken due to the logo) that will hang with any scope out there.

Every year on Black Friday SWFA runs a sale where at a minimum they mark down their optics. Their fixed power scopes are always the best deal and can be bundled with rings, sunshade, and a bubble level at no cost. The variables and HD variables don’t have the option to bundle but you do save some money on them. This past fall I came into possession of one of each of the following through purchase or loan from someone else who took advantage of the Black Friday sale: 6x42mm with Mil-Quad reticle, 3-15x42mm FFP with Mil-Quad, and 5-20x50mm HD FFP with Mil-Quad. Admittedly, all three are very different but all are good to very good buys. After having several months of these scopes sitting around because my life is super busy, I got out and tested all three.

Top to bottom: SS 6x42mm MQ, SS 3-15x42mm FFP MQ, SS 5-20x50mm HD FFP MQ

Test Platform:

All of the optics were tested using one of my match rifles because nothing replaces a live fire: bullets don’t lie! This rifle is a Remington 700 action with Benchmark HV barrel that is chambered in .308 Win Palma 95 with a 1-10″ twist. The stock is a Manners Composite Stocks T6A with the Mini-Chassis System which is remarkably stable and repeatable. This rifle is extremely accurate and precise so is a great platform for testing rifle sights. All shooting was done an Atlas bipod and Red Tac 1/2-Pint rear bag. All ammunition was loaded with 175gn Sierra Match King bullets. 

What really matters:

My opinion of the purpose of and requirements for a rifle sight differ from some folks. A rifle scope is a rifle sight first and foremost and an optical instrument second. I care far more about mechanical soundness than I do brilliant optics. If I need to look at something with optics that allow me to discern fine detail I will use an binocular or spotting scope; both are exactly the right place to spend your money on a great glass. Rifle scopes are not for viewing things, they are for shooting things and it is entirely possible to shoot with 1MoA precision using iron sights at 1000yds so I don’t buy that I need super high definition glass in my rifle sight. I just need to be able to resolve enough detail to shoot well and where that usually requires a better set of lenses and engineering is with high magnification. That does not particularly concern me because I rarely shoot with anything over 12x even at  1000yds. I am not saying you do not want or need good glass in a rifle scope but it is not the most important thing by a long shot. On to what counts.

As stated, I am a mechanical reliability, precision, and accuracy type guy. The first thing I will do after zeroing a new rifle sight is shoot a “Tall Target Test” to calibrate the accuracy of my adjustments and to test the ability of the system to return to zero. If a sight cannot return to zero I will not use it. I prefer to use rifle sights that have adjustments that are within 2% of perfect but any decent ballistic calculator will allow for a correction factor.

I shoot these tests a few ways: a group at every 1MRAD, a group at every 5MRAD, or a single group at 15MRAD. If in MoA I would do every 5MoA, every 10MoA, or a single group at 30MoA. I start at my zero shoot two, dial up and shoot, then dial back to zero and shoot again. I had three scopes to test so I elected to shoot every 5MRAD.

The rifle range at my gun club is spot on at every distance beyond 100yds but when they rebuilt the berms a couple of years ago the dropped the berm at 100yds on center and the target boards at 93yds. All of these scopes that I have on hand are MRAD so each milliradian is equal to 3.348″ instead of the 3.600″ it would be equal to at 100yds.

In all three scopes the most error showed up in the first 5MRAD and decreased as I dialed out which I guess is what you want if you have to deal with error. The error is easily corrected for with your ballistic app and equally important is that all three scopes returned to zero although with the two standard scopes each had a round out of group when shooting return to zero. It always possible it was my fault but it looks like the same precision all the way up the tall target with those two scopes. I used a military surplus M118LR for the first two scopes and when I got the HD in my hands a couple of weeks later I was using my handloads for an upcoming match. In sum, I have no reservations about using any of these scopes based on this test.

Features common to all:

The tube length on all three scopes is between 5.75 and 6 inches so you can set up your rings to span nearly the entire tube for support but will have enough rail that you can move the scope fore or aft by .5 to 75 inches to get eye-relief properly positioned. Each has a minimum of 3.5″ of eye-relief (6x42mm) to a maximum of 4.2″ (3-15x42mm) which is an important consideration if using them on a heavily recoiling rifle.  Eye relief is decent but is fairly critical; that is to say the “eyebox” is a little tight if you like the modern lingo that dumbs it down. The scope tube diameter for all is 30mm and each scope has between 30 and 40MRAD of adjustment (about 104 to 140MoA) which is a lot.

SWFA SS 6x42mm with Mil-Quad:

Overall, this is a very decent optic that sells for around $300 dollars. Mine was bundled with rings, a bubble level, and a sunshade. The rings are a 6-screw ring made from aluminum and appear to be very nearly identical to the Burris MTAC rings. They are light and they are functional but I do not expect them to be as rugged as a steel ring or a Nightforce aluminum ring with titanium crossbolt (SWFA recommends 40 in-lbs compared to 65 in-lbs with NF if that is any indication). They are a bulky too but  pretty is as pretty does unless it is a really svelte rifle and then looks count too. This scope is dedicated to a .22LR training rifle so I am positive the rings will be just fine. I probably would not use these rings on a big gun.

The scope itself his a little on the heavy side. It weighs in at 20oz or so: about a quarter pound more than a similar sized Leupold but about a quarter pound less than a Bushnell LRHS. For a hunting rig it is a pretty good weight. I would say it is Goldie Locks and the 3 Bears all around: not too heavy, not too light, just right.

The elevation and windage knobs are cheap looking but give your 5MRAD per revolution, are easy to read, and are positive. I would prefer a little lower profile turret for elevation and a capped windage knob as I always hold windage with my reticle. Those are just preferences though and I think that they are quite good for a $300 scope.

The glass is good but not exceptional and I noticed some distortion at the edges. I would say it has a “sweet spot” that is 2/3 or 3/4 of the entire field of view and just suffers distortion at the edges. Again, I am not using a rifle scope for viewing and the distortion would never affect my shooting since the entire usable portion of the reticle is in the clear portion of the field of view. The ocular is a fast focus style and the parallax adjustment is on the ocular housing as well instead of on the side or objective lens. It is not as easy to use as a side focus but is easier to use than an adjustable objective. The parallax adjustment is a little tight and it does not take much movement at all to make a large change.

The Mil-Quad reticle is different from scope to scope model from SWFA. The MQ reticle in the 6x is a little heavier than the reticle in other models but is still very usable. I actually prefer the solid diamonds of the 6x to the hollow diamonds of the two variables in this test. It has plenty of hold-over if you need it, small enough wind holds to be precise, and the heavy inverted plex works well for closer shooting.

As a whole this is a very nearly ideal hunting scope. The glass is good, the adjustments are good, the reticle is good, and it is not too heavy. It offers enough magnification to shoot to at least 600yds which covers 99.9% of deer hunting. Considering the cost and the bundle available I can’t imagine needing anything else.

SWFA SS 3-15x42mm FFP with Mil-Quad:

Compared to the fixed power scopes I am not sure this one is worth $300 dollars more but is still a good scope. The fact that this scope is not offered with any bundles on sale fortifies my opinion; that is, if you need rings and a level, or a sunshade. That said, compare features and cost to just about any other optic like a Leupold VX-6 and I think you get a lot.

It is on the heavy side: 24oz just like the Bushnell LRHS but nowhere near the quality of glass or adjustments. The knobs are the same cheap looking knobs that are on the fixed power Super Sniper but they are positive and repeatable. It shares the fast-focus eye-piece of the fixed power but it has a side-focus parallax adjustment. The glass has almost no distortion at the edge of the field of view but you can see in the picture there is a tiny bit of chromatic aberration (that little “halo” you see at the top of the white target board). I have heard some guys cry about CA in an optic but I have never found it to be a distraction when shooting.

The reticle is a little thinner than on the 6x and the diamonds are hollow with a dot in the center. They don’t have the FFP version depicted on their website but this is a fair representation:

For a $600 dollar rifle scope I think this a pretty good buy.

SWFA SS 5-20x50mm FFP HD with Mil-Quad:

The HD version of the Super Sniper seems to be an altogether different animal than the standard scopes. It just looks different: the elevation and windage knobs are more refined looking and feel more crisp, the diopter adjustment is a locking configuration compared to a fast-focus, and the lenses are all HD as the name implies.

Locking diopter:

Lower profile turrets that are very nearly like a Bushnell DMR/HDMR/ERS/XRS:

I thought the turrets resembled the turrets on a Bushnell DMR except that they do not have a locking feature. They are really quite good. Also, if you dial your elevation the turrets on the HD offer 10MRAD per revolution compared to the 5MRAD you get from the standard line. That makes it harder to get lost in your knob which is the most common error I see with guys who dial elevation.

The parallax knob is stiff but pretty accurate for the yardages listed (compared to the 6x or 3-15x42mm) out to 600m and from there out the infinity setting works. I thought the glass was good throughout the power range with no discernible degradation in image quality. There is still a little CA in this scope but again it is not a big deal to me.

The reticle is the third variant of the Mil-Quad in as many scopes:

Conclusion:

The SWFA line of Super Sniper rifle scopes are a good buy that offer good glass and solid mechanics. I would buy these scopes over a lot of the bigger name brands. They offer everything you need and nothing you do not.

[garbage86]

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[ghamiltonphoto]

Finally got out to take some decent photos of the new rig build. #notyourgrandpasrifle #nightforce @proofresearch @evolvedballistics @trigger.tech @mannersstocks @mdttac21 @nightforce_optics @area419official #hellfire https://www.instagram.com/p/CYfgOmdrFNh/?utm_medium=tumblr

[balongshore]

Proof research carbon fiber 308 barrel with manners composite stock make this hammer featherlight. The trigger tech diamond will let loose as low as 4 ounces which is just a breath on your fingertip. 🔥 🔥 🔥 this is one of the most incredible rifles we’ve built. Can’t wait to see the customers reaction. Oh did we mention it will stack the rounds down range with the Zeiss SP5 glass on it. Let’s get it. #armalite #ar15 #instalike #palmettostatearmory #aeroprecision #andersonmanufacturing #instapic #glock #glock17 #glock19 #tactical #Laserengraving #laserengraved #colt #colt1911 #ruger #smithandwesson #instagood #pewpewprofessional #instagood #vortexoptics #vortexnation #guns #instalike #instapic #gunsofinstagram #edc #2a #stippling #laserstipple #proofresearch #zermatt #mannersstocks (at Pell City, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgPloYLXNV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tieroneeu]

An impressive looking left hand build featuring the Tier-One Short Saddle Monomount by @follow_through_riflewerks for Gary @guardianlongrange Build: @terminusactions Zeus LH/SA @mannersstocks PRS 1 Elite MC (Americana w/Clear) @lotharwalther_usa 6.5 blank chambered in 6.5 CM @tieroneeu Mono Mount Rifle consistenly shot in the 1/2 or less MOA size with factory 130, 140, and 147gr box ammo. Absolute hammer of a rifle. Super happy and honored to get this one in Gary's hands. Burn it down brother 🤙🏼 • #gun #guns #rifle #customrifle #precision #precisionrifle #precisionrifleseries #accuracy #longrange #longrangeshooting #longrangeprecision #guardianlongrange #sniper #sniperrifle #weapons #tactical #65creedmoor #tierone #tieroneeu #tieroneusa https://www.instagram.com/p/CXwFzegMgd9/?utm_medium=tumblr

[cstactical]

#Repost @j.bonilla240 (@get_repost) ・・・ Got some range time a few days ago with my .223 bolt gun. I decided to run the @vortexoptics AMG scope on this rifle and needed to zero it. The .223 is really fun to shoot. It also helps with practicing wind calls due to the lighter weight bullet. #defiancemachine #benchmarkbarrels #boltgun #precisionrifle #223wylde #mannersstocks #vortexoptics #shortactionprecision #clarkcountyshootingcomplex

[cstactical]

Just in stock @mannersstocks Standard fill & Carbon Fiber. We have GAP CAMO, BLACK FOREST CAMO, and MORE. With the NEW mini chassis system. Here is a link to the T6A stocks. http://bit.ly/2qhmEZa. I have a feeling I will be sending one off to @spartan_rifles soon. :) #Manner #Mannerstocks #riflestocks #guns #gunstuf #firearms #firearm #gunsandammo #longgun #pewpew #pewpewpew #pewpewlife #gunlover #gunlovers #hundguns #gun #firearmsphotography #rifles #weapons #militaryweapons #gungear #rifle #targetshooting #shooting #outdoor #hunting #huntingseason #deerhunting #longrangeshooting #longrangehunting #longrangerifle #cstactical #longrangepewpew #longrangeprecision #longrangeshooter #longrangerifles (at CS TACTICAL)

[cstactical]

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[kineticperformancellc]

Rifle Bedding, Part 2: the BAD.

I almost labeled this section the ugly but that is not really what this is. An ugly bedding job can be functional, so it is not really bad except that it is unacceptable, especially from a “professional”. A stock that doesn’t fit your metal is ugly but, worse, it is bad. A rifle will never shoot to its full potential if the stock to metal fit is not perfectly stress free. 

Never assume even the best stocks, whether factory supplied or aftermarket, are actually ready to go drop-in inlets no matter how they are marketed. With the exception of V-block chassis like the Manners Mini-Chassis (which I think is the cat’s meow but even then I have had to have them fixed a little) I will bed everything to ensure it has a good fit. Now I have to qualify that statement because even as a little boy doing something just because I was told to was never a good enough reason. What we are looking for here is, “Where is the stress in this system?” Without the answer to that question your bedding will never be as good as it should be because it will either not be properly centered, bedding will not be even and uniform, or you will induce stress into your bedding because you failed to eliminate it when you started jamming epoxy in the stock and bolted it down.

When you first buy a rifle the first thing you should be doing (new or used) is disassembling it, cleaning it, properly reassembling it, then testing function. Honestly, if you bought it at a store you should have identified a lot of this before purchase. If you bought it online you should be giving it a once over before filling out your 4473 and taking it home. If there is any bind you will feel it. If there is uneven or off-center inlet you will usually see it (barrel channel is most common). Sometimes an inlet is so crooked it shouldn’t be fixed, the stock should be returned but sometimes you can work around minor errors. If the inlet is off you will often have a hard time getting action screws into the  action threads easily without finagling. You will also have to finagle the action into alignment if the in-letting is too large which is just as bad (unless you have ordered over-sized inlet for the purpose of epoxy bedding) as too tight in regard to performance potential. When you take it apart and when you put it together you are getting your first snapshot of how well the stock fits your barreled action.

Leveling the stock is like leveling sights and is where I start for general snapshot:

Level shows McMillan installed pillars are not straight and is the reason assembly was difficult:

I say I want the snap shot because it helps me figure out where to go next. I will usually deal with a barrel channel first because I am either going to free-float it or I am going to full-length bed it. Either way, I am taking material out of it. I am taking material out in either case (and from around the action when I get there) for the sake of uniformity and to relieve any torque the forearm may impart on the action by means of contact with the barrel. Free-floating it up front allows me a more honest assessment of how the action fits the stock in-letting.

I generally do this with emery cloth if the barrel channel is pretty close to where it needs to be. If there is a lot of work to be done I will use a cutting tool made for barrel channels (that you use like a plane), next clean it up with scrapers, then go to emery cloth. If I am working with a gun that already has a finish on it I tape the barrel with at least two layers of masking tape to prevent damage to the metal finish. As I remove material, I may add layers of tape to increase the diameter of the barrel channel until I have the amount of clearance I want.  When using the emery cloth you must be careful to pull straight up and down and not at an angle or you will round off the top of your forearm inlet. I keep snugging up the action until it is sitting tight in the stock and the barrel has the desired clearance.

Some guys don’t like big gaps but I want enough to ensure there will be absolutely no contact with the barrel during normal use. I put that number at .050-.060″ ,as a minimum, and more is not wrong if you have enough forearm to support it and don’t mind the way it looks. Tom Manners of Manners’ Composite Stocks shoots for .100″ of clearance and on a beefy stock I think that is pretty ideal. I have never had an issue with a Manners’ barrel channel hitting the barrel no matter what I was shooting off of from bipod, to rested over logs and rocks, to steel or concrete barricades. Either way, that dollar bill you have seen guys slide between their barrel and stock to test float does not mean jack. It is nowhere near enough float regardless if you intend to leave it full-floated or full-length bed it.

Once I am certain that my barrel is not in contact with my forearm and that I have no other glaring issues, I will wrap the barrel with tape at the shank and the tip of the forearm to center it in the barrel channel. I coat the action with in-let black (a transfer ink) and bolt the gun into the stock and tighten it down. If your stock is dark, use in-let gold (or bright lipstick just don’t get caught). When I remove the action screws and pop the action out of the stock it leaves a black footprint in the stock in-letting where there is actually stock to action contact.

McMillan KS stock with in-let black showing actual contact with action:

Often you will see that there is very little, and uneven contact, as seen in the McMillan stock above. I then remove those black spots just like a stock maker would with a wood stock blank. I re-apply the in-let black and bolt the gun together again then repeat until I have even contact. Why go to the trouble you may ask? I want my bedding material to have an even thickness all the way around and that cannot happen if you have high spots in the substrate you wish to apply bedding compound to. If you allow the fit to remain unchanged you will induce stress when you bolt that stock on. It’s like trying to make a flat table with warped lumber; it might look flat and straight but there is a slight bow that is fighting to return to its original shape.

Stock with evenly floated barrel, action substrate fitted, and ready for epoxy:

Some folks have peddled bedding blocks as the solution to all bedding issues. Other people have bought that story and perpetuated that fallacy. I recently bought a left-hand Remington 700 Varmint as a donor to build  my dad a Smokeless Muzzle-Loader. The 700 Varmint (and its long action brother, the Sendero) came from the factory with H-S precision stocks which have a molded in aluminum bedding block. The issue with the type of hemispherical bedding block used by H-S Precision and Bell & Carlson is they are surfaced (vice V-block which suck the action down into a wedge) but do not provide full contact. I am not saying that the blocks are not accurately made, just that they do not adequately fit the actions (the notable exception being the KMW IMB that uses a hemispherical interference fit).

The problem is that a lot of factory actions are slightly warped from heat treat processes. Polishing/finishing compounds the problem. Newer actions are often tumble polished and come out more even. Older actions were hand polished on a wheel/belt which left them a little more inconsistent in surface dimension (one reason the rear bridge often needs bedded in regard to a scope base). As a result, action to bedding block contact is severely compromised.

If you look at the H-S Precision bedding block below you will see there are exactly five points of contact where the inlet ink transferred: front receiver ring either side of the action screw (1&2), left side between mag well and trigger well (3), at the tang on the right sight, top by trigger well (4), and the left side of the tang where the guy who painted the stock ran a heavy coat of paint over the tang portion of the block (5).

It is also clear that contact is uneven and disproportionate from side to side if you look below at the close up of the front receiver ring.  The left side makes contact for half and inch and the right side makes contact at single, small point. The recoil lug well also shows that the lug makes about 50% contact which means that either the receiver face or block is out of square.

A quick glance at the barrel channel showed that the barrel was not centered. Since the bedding block is molded into the stock you cannot really realign the bedding. I know I said you want more clearance than a dollar bill but if a dollar will not pass the channel then you most certainly need to remove material. I could not get a slip of paper to go past the tip of the forearm. A quick wrap of the barrel in tape and a five-minute job with emery cloth cleaned up the barrel channel enough to allow me to evaluate the factory barrel (had to decide if I was selling it or keeping it for a trainer action) but does not have a full .010″ float. I will fix that when I get the muzzle-loader barrel installed however, floating the factory barrel took groups from a little over three inches to half that with cheap plinking ammo.

This small sample demonstrates that even expensive stocks with good reputations (justifiably earned) are not perfect drop-in replacements that will be trouble free. You cannot expect what you do not inspect and you cannot inspect what you do not know to look for. These are some common areas that are problematic and things you should inspect on every rifle you purchase or build. Next time we will look at how proper bedding jobs fix these issues.