Stoked about a new project, so thought it might be nice to share here...
A year or so ago I sold my Surgeons and went looking for something else. You know how that goes. I still had my KMW Sentinel and a 6.5mm barrel on the shelf after selling the action. Time to put those to good use again.
Just a few months back I stumbled upon a rarity in the form of a BAT 3-Lug repeater action in 1.47" octagon and integrated picatinny. I first thought I misread and it just had an ejector, but it turned out it was an actual repeater. Daryle Thom told me they made a dozen or so a while back and it's a little different from the normal 3-Lugs as the lugs are rotated 60° and flat instead of conical, so as to be able to pull rounds from the magazine. The 3LL is a "long action" but has the pillar spacing of a short action, so it will fit the well known bottom metals, cq AICS mags. For the rest there is a narrow port on the left so you can see if there is a round going into the action (and not do the feely thing I see LowLight doing all the time
). The original bolt is a 308 face, but BAT will be making a matching WSM bolt for me. More choices later on.
The action will be headed my way shortly, very anxious to get hold of it. I think it belonged to a Hide member before the previous owner bought it, so it's a hand-me-down, pretty much like all the other bits going into this rifle.
Build sheet so far:
- BAT 3LL 1.47" Octagon repeater
- CG Xtreme #22 trigger
- Bartlein 6.5x47 24" 1:8.5
- KMW Sentinel stock
- AseUtra S7 can
- Harris/Spuhr/Premier
I'll share more when the build progresses.
A year or so ago I sold my Surgeons and went looking for something else. You know how that goes. I still had my KMW Sentinel and a 6.5mm barrel on the shelf after selling the action. Time to put those to good use again.
Just a few months back I stumbled upon a rarity in the form of a BAT 3-Lug repeater action in 1.47" octagon and integrated picatinny. I first thought I misread and it just had an ejector, but it turned out it was an actual repeater. Daryle Thom told me they made a dozen or so a while back and it's a little different from the normal 3-Lugs as the lugs are rotated 60° and flat instead of conical, so as to be able to pull rounds from the magazine. The 3LL is a "long action" but has the pillar spacing of a short action, so it will fit the well known bottom metals, cq AICS mags. For the rest there is a narrow port on the left so you can see if there is a round going into the action (and not do the feely thing I see LowLight doing all the time
). The original bolt is a 308 face, but BAT will be making a matching WSM bolt for me. More choices later on.The action will be headed my way shortly, very anxious to get hold of it. I think it belonged to a Hide member before the previous owner bought it, so it's a hand-me-down, pretty much like all the other bits going into this rifle.
Build sheet so far:
- BAT 3LL 1.47" Octagon repeater
- CG Xtreme #22 trigger
- Bartlein 6.5x47 24" 1:8.5
- KMW Sentinel stock
- AseUtra S7 can
- Harris/Spuhr/Premier
I'll share more when the build progresses.
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