I received my new custom Hospitaller last week and thought I'd share, as well as say thanks to guys involved in the build.
We built this one a little differently from the website: chose the Templar action rather than the Surgeon for its tolerances, built it in .260 rather than .308 and added the Badger brake to protect my very broken right clavicle. Ken Lin was very helpful in figuring out the build and Short Bus (Branden) was kind enough to come up with an unusual variant on five color Flektarn for the Manners T4-A which you'll see in the pictures. We wanted to come up with a tac rifle suitable for comps and targets and I think we succeeded pretty well.
It's been raining cats and dogs in the mountains of Northern Arizona where I live so I'm just now getting to sight it in. My first impressions are that its a hammer: it produced a bunch of two round, one hole sighters from bipod and rear bag. Once I get it dialed in and I have some time on the rifle I'll see what it'll do and will update the post.
My thanks to GAP and to Short Bus and Tom Manners for facilitating the stock work in general and to Ken who was willing to spend time planning the build.
Pics, so far: on a ranch near us where I shoot.
We built this one a little differently from the website: chose the Templar action rather than the Surgeon for its tolerances, built it in .260 rather than .308 and added the Badger brake to protect my very broken right clavicle. Ken Lin was very helpful in figuring out the build and Short Bus (Branden) was kind enough to come up with an unusual variant on five color Flektarn for the Manners T4-A which you'll see in the pictures. We wanted to come up with a tac rifle suitable for comps and targets and I think we succeeded pretty well.
It's been raining cats and dogs in the mountains of Northern Arizona where I live so I'm just now getting to sight it in. My first impressions are that its a hammer: it produced a bunch of two round, one hole sighters from bipod and rear bag. Once I get it dialed in and I have some time on the rifle I'll see what it'll do and will update the post.
My thanks to GAP and to Short Bus and Tom Manners for facilitating the stock work in general and to Ken who was willing to spend time planning the build.
Pics, so far: on a ranch near us where I shoot.
