Most are running the Pic rail, I believe most of the recent production rifles came with them.
Wtf would you even want dovetail is this 1996?
Coming from a CZ 527 owner, unless you’re an aesthete, go with the pic rail and enjoy effortless scope+ring swaps between rifles and a much much wider variety of rings/mounts.
I picked up a nice 2014 AT folder locally, and want to change it to green thumb hole skins. Looks like I need a green pistol grip kit, and then the thumb hole conversion? Or is there an easier way to go about it? I'm signed up for notifications with Mile High and will keep an eye on Sporting Services. Probably going to require some patience.
Should compliment my AT-X nicely!
Should compliment my AT-X nicely!
LRI going to do bolt work ?
Maybe he's only shooting 308
No it’s SFP but pitted from awesome reloading skills.
Just the green thumb hole kit and the front panels. The pistol grip pieces get replaced with the thumb hole kit.
I don't reload so I am always looking for good factory ammo but their cost is high compared to FGMM which works pretty well. I want something in 308 with a bit more MV than FGMMHonestly, it has been good (and frigging expensive). It shot my first break-in groups into 4+1, so I just messed with seating depth a touch and .005 further in everything came together.
This is my second go-round at 655 and these results mirrored the first attempt.
When these are gone this barrel will never see a factory loaded round again.
It wasn't quite as bad as the pictures made it out to be (still not great though). There are three small pits in the bolt face, and a little bit of a ring, but can barely feel that. Trying to decide if I can live with it, but will probably call LRI and see about having it fixed. Rifle looks pretty mint otherwise.
That's what I was hoping for, but was having a hard time finding the front panels separately. I'm likely just blind though. Thanks for the info!
Looks like a good fixer-upper project. Should be sweet once that bolt gets cleaned up and skins etc. are sourced.
That's what I figured. Couldn't pass it up for the price, and have always wanted a thumb hole AT.Looks like a good fixer-upper project. Should be sweet once that bolt gets cleaned up and skins etc. are sourced.
Nothing that can't be fixed with a 7 axis Dremel, and after you finish polishing the gas cutting off the bolt face you can reshape the cocking cam for easier bolt lift. Here's a picture for reference a few pages back.
I almost bought that rifle yesterday, not because I needed a 4th AI, but because how do you pass up an AT for $2100? Nice score.
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I’m one of the cool kids with the heavy bolt lift AT-X now. 
At near $3/round by the time you get it to your door, it'd be a tough recommendation. I got used to the $3 thing when I bought a box of factory Lapua ammo to break each of my 6.5x47 barrels in.
However, both the Lapua and Eagle Eye stuff has shot in the .4s in all three barrels. I know that the 300NM/338LM guys are snickering at my griping about $3 ammo.
I will say that the 6GT stuff isn't hot. I actually haven't put any over a chronograph, but 3.8 mils to 655 puts me somewhere in the 2,900ish range out of a 27" barrel FWIW.
MPN 26679GR for the green AT front panels and pistol grip rear and 26723GR for the green thumbhole. This should be what you’re looking for and I believe all current green is sage green rather than the old green from ~2015 and earlier.
What causes this? Overpressure? I’m not a reloader.
Anything that causes gas to leak which acts like a cutting torch against the bolt face... Pierced primer from overpressure or damaged firing pin tip or too large diameter firing pin or excessive clearance between the firing pin and hole in the bolt face, gas leaks around the circumference of the primer pocket from worn out primer pockets in the brass or undersized primers, defective primers that pinhole at the primer cup edge radius even with mild loads (looking at you, defective Winchester WLR primers from about 12 years ago...)
Pierced primers were a much more common complaint years ago when most rifles (including AI) shipped with larger diameter firing pins which historically played nice with large primer .308s but didn't agree with some of the more modern cartridges like 6/6.5cm, 6 dasher, etc, especially if they used small rifle primers.
Most of the time pitted bolt faces are from pierced primers because people loaded their ammo way too hot, or because they let their barrels get so dirty a load that used to be safe is now way over pressure from a very dirty bore.
Mile High shows that they have the AT non thumb hole green in stock 26966GR. https://www.milehighshooting.com/accuracy-international-26966-at-aics-stock-sides-sa-folding/
My insurance policy just arrived
All three Left handed bolt bodies plus a spare left-handed shroud/firing pin assembly for the AXSR. Now all I need is the rifle...LOL
All three Left handed bolt bodies plus a spare left-handed shroud/firing pin assembly for the AXSR. Now all I need is the rifle...LOL
I think you have more money tied up in those bolts than I bought my AT for
Why buy 3 though? If you buy a LH AXSR it'll come with one...
With hot factory ammo you can still start popping primers. The .mil ASR (Mk22) apparently has been known to pop 300 Norma primers.
Good question
Because you can't predict which rifle will be available when you buy it. Which two will you buy now? You may be SOL if you have to wait for a rifle that comes with the bolt you need. It may never come.
I can always sell the one I have two of.
I don't know what you paid for the AT...LOLI think you have more money tied up in those bolts than I bought my AT for
Whoa whoa whoa where's the at?
Meh just swap the bolt head hit up mh no need to rework that
So I'm going to buy another trigger for my AXSR as a backup... I'm traveling to a couple of matches this year that I really can't afford to have a malfunction at, and I figure if anything is going to give me problems it's the trigger. Would you buy another standard trigger or get the Comp trigger? I guess the thought is I'd run the comp trigger and try it out, and keep the standard trigger as a backup. I do really like the standard trigger in the AXSR, I have lightened the 2nd stage up a bit, but there were times shooting really far, like 2200 far, on small targets, that I wished for a little lighter break. Nothing that made me say I absolutely gotta have a lighter trigger, but if I'm getting another....
That's the ABR from Longshot Precision:
Adjustable Bag Rider - Adjustable Bag Riders
www.adjustablebagrider.com That must be the 50 because that is not an AXSR buttstock it's on
I think we need to doxx @Nik H and get AI & all the retailers to boycott him. He seems to have single-handedly cornered the market on AI lefty bolts, all manner of skins in all colors, and god only knows what else lol
I bet he has 5 identical backup trucks, 8 diesel backup generators, 6 wives, three stoves in his house (with 6 microwaves), and 3 entire warehouses full of toilet paper…
It was you @Nik H that bought all the toilet paper during the pandemic. Right?
No man smart enough to buy all three available left hand bolts is dumb enough to have 6 wives….I think we need to doxx @Nik H and get AI & all the retailers to boycott him. He seems to have single-handedly cornered the market on AI lefty bolts, all manner of skins in all colors, and god only knows what else lol
I bet he has 5 identical backup trucks, 8 diesel backup generators, 6 wives, three stoves in his house (with 6 microwaves), and 3 entire warehouses full of toilet paper…
It was you @Nik H that bought all the toilet paper during the pandemic. Right?
AI owners deserve more credit than this
But they are from Backup-Wives™. He keeps them in their original wrapping paper on a shelf in a hermetically sealed box in the “off” state. When one gets too old she is recycled and the new one is activated by inserting the dongle with the Cook/Clean/Orals subroutine on it.
C’mon man.
Ok all in good fun. Back to AI programming.
Yes, as @ForgeValley stated, it's the very well made Longshot Precision Universal Rail Mounted ABR with hardened dowels. The rifle is an AI AX50 ELR 50 BMG.
New AI owner needs some assurance if anyone’s willing to help.
www.snipershide.com
Have I ruined my Accuracy International AT?
Well gents, for those of you who remember, I posted a week or two ago about an AI AW that I come across locally. I took everyone’s advice and passed on it. To my profit, I came across a very reasonably priced AT pretty soon after this that arrived today. It came with a surefire muzzle device...
www.snipershide.com OK tks. At first I though that Left-side QR lever was for adjusting the ABR up/down and was like holy-fook !! On second glance, seems ABR is bolted to the PIC rail and ajdusted normall
50 Cal rear stock just has the new QR for LOP adjustment, I think..now everything is making sense. I bought a spare AXSR trigger from EO a while back. Do they offer two different types now because all I ever heard of was the one AXSR offering?
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I totally thought the comp trigger fit the axsr?
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I totally thought the comp trigger fit the axsr?
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You thought wrong guy
Well, that makes that decision easier.
. Glad I didn't buy it. Well, that makes that decision easier.
Take comfort the comp trigger is overrated and you have the trigger in the axsr that failed the psr solitation allegedly....
Yep, I'm a one is none kind of guy.
Stop the presses. LH bolt hoarding notwithstanding, I believe I got Mr. @Nik H mixed up with a certain @VSP968 AI hoarder.
Accuracy International Picture Thread
In case anyone is interested in a the NF limited run: https://www.eurooptic.com/Nightforce-SOCOM-Scope-Clones.aspx
www.snipershide.com Accuracy International Picture Thread
Copied from a post from Scott Seigmund at AI.
www.snipershide.com Turns out the guy with all of the toilet paper is @VSP968. Sorry @Nik H.
I need to up my skin hoarding game it seems (pssst I’ll buy some old skool thumbholes haha)
Nyet.I totally thought the comp trigger fit the axsr?
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The AXSR is it’s own creature that only fits in that system.
Excuse me ma’am, but the ASR trigger (which failed the trials) is not the AXSR trigger.
