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Marc at Spartan Rifles created this......

cav1993

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I sent him the following with the idea to build a 223 trainer:

ax chassis
Surgeon action
Rock 1 in 8 twist barrel fluted and bead blasted, finished 24 inches
surefire brake



Finished rifle with:
APA rings(scope clears rail by less than half cm--rings are VERY nice)
US Optics scope

As usual, my photography skills are lacking, but here we go--

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Marc is a great guy to deal with, went way farther than the extra mile, turn around time was downright smoking, and holy heck this thing shoots-will post range pictures soon but it shoots even better than it looks:)!





 
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Great looking rig Cav, let me know what Bullet you use and velocity you get.
 
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thanks all! mark builds a really nice rig!!!

transinator-made me laugh!!!!:)

pusher-going to be shooting 77gn smk asi have some laying around, may try the 80

hope to shoot a lot today!!!!
 
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that is quite the trainer...looks like a prairie-dog killer to me.
 
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Marc does build one heck of a nice rifle!

I'll add some 223 with heavy bullets to your next ammo shipment.

Looking forward to range report.
 
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took her back to the range in the pouring rain
shoots fgmm 77 same hole

tried some 80 gn smk .02 off in winc brass and lapua brass

tried rl15 and varget

varget 23.9-24.1 in lapua clear winner at least to 200

going to try 8208, 4895, and a few others. chrono and distance reportto follow when not raining!
 
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Tthose AX chassis are growing on me more and more, a 223 in this form must a total joy to pull the trigger on.
Very jealous here, congrats.
 
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NICE! Marc does some great work! I was priviliged to get #8 of 13 of the Norcal Club rifles. Shoots bug holes.
 
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Cav, looking to hear velocities as well, again thats a beautiful gun. I bet its fun as hell to shoot.
 
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Finally got velocities

80 gn smk 2 3.9gns 8208 in winc brass running 2880-2895 shooting very well to 500 this past weekend. Better accuraccy and velocity than varget, h4895, and a few others