Ok I know I'm forgetful as can be, but when did this come out?...
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Ship to work?son of a....
looks like this is the reason the cz chassis had disappeared from the site before.
sneaky sneaky, now to find a way to sneak this into the house without the wife knowing about it
in theory yes but she watches the safe like a hawk because i have what some people call a "spending problem"Ship to work?
Interested in any opinions available.
Thanks
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Oh man! When did this come out? I’ve been waiting for it.
Dave - you and me both. would be fun to have it for the match on the 23rd...
You and me both.Yea, I’m fighting the pull....
from reading the description it looks like they updated their old 180 xray chassis and added the less expensive option of the bravo buttstock. it also looks like you can get the xray buttstock or the whiskey 3 fixed / folder buttstock as well. they went big!
Ok I know I'm forgetful as can be, but when did this come out?...
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The 180-Xray chassis always had the option of being purchased with either the W-3 fixed or folding buttstocks. The addition of the Bravo rear end is the only new thing.
it sucks that they discontinued the Howa inlet, but I already got mine and Brownells still has some.
Well I couldn't stand it, I ordered one...
I looked the web over for someone posting about one, but I really found nothing much about it... So either my search skills suck, or nobody is using them yet, or just nobody is posting about it yet?..
Had a new 455 and a few parts sitting in the box for several months now trying to catch an FDE manners being sold...
Guess it's going to be an FDE Bravo now!
I'll post what I see when it gets here, and I try putting it all together
Same here......Too bad I have a 452
any flex in the forend using bipod? i thought it was closer to the Bravo and Whiskey for centerfire. looks like the back-bone ends halfway up the forend. Would the Aluminum forend/handguard fit on this?
i read somewhere that this stock has alot of flex. Was gonna upgrade, but the Boyd's stock i have is pretty stiff.
I can answer that.any flex in the forend using bipod?
Seconding 308pirate's post.I can answer that.
I have two 180-Xrays (which is what this one is) with Howa centerfires on them. While there is some very minor amount of flex if you try to squeeze the barrel and forend at the same time, it does not affect accuracy whatsoever.
The forend does not touch the barrel no matter how hard I load either an Atlas or Harris on grass or against the mat, it does not touch no matter how hard I sling up (and I know how to sling up HARD, since highpower is what I used to shoot), and it does not touch no matter how hard I push into or down onto any barricade.
I was very skeptical about this before I bought, but got one anyway due to Brownells money back guarantee. Well, it didn't go back and I bought a second one.
ETA: No, you can't extend the aluminum chassis forward or adapt any other forend from other KRG designs to it. It's not that big of a deal and doesn't bother me at all.
Buy in confidence. KRG knows that they are doing.
Seconding 308pirate's post.
I had a KRG 180-Alpha which has the same forend/backbone design as the X-Ray. There is some flex, but no barrel contact or effect on accuracy. Only way I could induce movement was to squeeze barrel and forend together, and even then not even close to contact with the barrel. The only design limitation is inability to add a full length arca rail.
No. The spigot requires the full length backbone. I edited my earlier posting to reflect the difference between the X-Ray and 180-Alpha.Will the KRG spigots fit? It doesn't look like there is a space for them in the forend (and there's no aluminum backbone to mount them to).
11.5" from front of the 455 magwell
Did you have to sand out the area where the bolt handle rests? I just ordered one of these and my bolt handle won’t close all the way down. Hits on the plastic skin.Well i haven't shot it, but I'll try to explain everything i see messing around house with it.
Aluminum ends where you see circled in the picture
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BUT the way they did the forend is a solid box frame design. I'm a 220lb 20yr maintenance worker and I can't twist the forend just using hands on front and rear in any way.
Now if I use leverage... Grab barrel and apply force directly to the side of the forend I can get it to move enough that I can see it. Only way I can see this making a difference while behind the rifle is if you were to deeply wedge bipod into something and apply a ridiculous amount of pressure to basically torque the forend into a banana... Why anyone would do such a thing I have not a clue...
I took it out on the deck and got behind it as if shooting from barricaded positions. applied pressure to a single bipod leg and I can't see enough flex to amount to anything with any form of pressure I would apply while shooting normally.... Maybe if I was going to put this on a "go to hell" rifle I would rethink polymer anything, but I can't see where anything with this chassisis going to limit you in most cases.
Thanks for the pic. Yeah looks like I have the wrong section. I’ll see what they say Monday@USNavy06
Might want to call them Monday, I think you got the wrong tail section...
This one came cut to clear the bolt handle
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The only thing holding me back from purchasing this chassis is that forearm looks a little short, especially if using a bag like a game changer with a bipod attached.
Could someone who has one of these chassis measure forearm forward of the magazine well?
Might it be possible to modify the forearm to take an aftermarket spigot mount, like the B&T TRG bracket or B&T's new nose rail?
The front end on this chassis is a 180-Xray, of which I have two. The front end is all plastic, with no internal aluminum structure. Doing what you want might be possible, but it certainly won't be easy because the chassis wasn't designed with that in mind.
Even if you use a 10 round magazine, it won't extend far down out of the magwell so you have almost all the way to the trigger guard to accommodate a bag.