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  1. flatland1

    6mm ARC bolt gun for competition?

    I built myself a 6 RAT bolt gun on a Howa Mini action before the Zermatt Origin with interchangeable bolt heads came along. The Howa RAT shoots great with a Bartlein 1-8tw light Palma bbl finished at 24". I was able to get McMillan to do the Howa inlet on one of their Game Scout stocks; tried...
  2. flatland1

    What caliber is it???

    Another reason that doing a chamber cast with Cerrosafe is the definitive/safe thing to do before selling a rifle....
  3. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Sightron SVIII 5-40x56 ED

    Finally got an opportunity to get the new Sightron SVIII mounted on the new Solus 223AI and take it down to my range last evening. Wind had finally died down from the 60+MPH gusts of the day before, and clouds had blown out with those winds. I set up my portable bench at 100yds and spent some...
  4. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Athlon Ares ETR Gen2 vs DNT The One

    I'm hoping a new baby is the reason Drake hasn't gotten back to me! Way more important that selling another scope or two....
  5. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Athlon Ares ETR Gen2 vs DNT The One

    I've called my Athlon sales rep several times in the past couple of weeks to try to place an order for at least a couple of the Gen 3 Ares BTR scopes, but have yet to hear back from him. Wondering if the trade war/tariff situation isn't causing problems?
  6. flatland1

    Thoughts on the Aero Precision SOLUS ?

    Am hoping you got the straight dope from your contact, and that Aero can put things right again. I have been buying 90+% of my gas gun parts from them for several years now, and have hated seeing things slide downhill over the past couple or more years. Not the quality, but availability...
  7. flatland1

    Thoughts on the Aero Precision SOLUS ?

    The weather's so foul here today (wind with gusts to 60+MPH, 30* with snow) that I might as well get the 6XC bbl pulled from the 1st Solus and get the chamfer cut on it. I entertained the thought that the rifle might still feed the 105 Scenars out of an AIAW magazine instead of AICS, but why not...
  8. flatland1

    Thoughts on the Aero Precision SOLUS ?

    For all you Solus owners with pre-fit bbls - did your barrels have a chamfer cut in the breech face, or were they flat? I just finished doing a Bartlein bbl in 223AI for a PVD FDE Solus with the .382" bolthead, and it wouldn't feed until I removed the bbl, dialed it back in, and cut a chamfer at...
  9. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Bushnell Match Pro ED 3-18 & other budget scopes

    I've been shooting behind Cronus scopes since the first model came out, and have have kept upgrading as the newer versions came along. As an Athlon dealer (full disclosure here) since they first became available, I have appreciated the quality of the LOW-made Cronus 4.5-29x56 scopes enough to...
  10. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Bushnell Match Pro ED 3-18 & other budget scopes

    Jesse - I built myself a 22 Grinch on a Zermatt Origin action last year, and used an Athlon Ares Gen 2 BTR on it instead of an Ares ETR, mostly because the Grinch is a cute little cartridge based on 6.5 Grendel brass that I wanted to play with instead of using it in competition - and I'd had...
  11. flatland1

    CZ 457

    I started buying 457s not long after they were announced, first getting an American sporter, then finally finding a Varmint MTR after missing getting one ordered when they were in stock several times. Then - because I'm a fan of the Manners PRS1T stocks that I have on several of my Vudoo & a...
  12. flatland1

    New Rimfire Project 2500x/Mullerworks/BnA

    We had a really cold January, and February is looking to be a repeat, with heavy snow & bitter cold temps forecast for most of the rest of this week, followed next week by more snow... Not like we can't use the moisture, but when it gets this cold, the snow tends to be pretty fluffy & dry. Not...
  13. flatland1

    What is ATF wait time for a suppressor?

    Last trust form I filed took less than 8 days.
  14. flatland1

    What is ATF wait time for a suppressor?

    Up until very recently, I would invest in a suppressor, then wait, and wait, and wait... And now that the wait time is down to a week or less in most cases, inflation - mostly due to the Biden Administration's incredible amount of deficit spending - I'm not buying as many of the newer flow-type...
  15. flatland1

    DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

    In my experience with mostly Krieger cut-rifled & Shilen select match ratchet button rifled bbls on 40X, Vudoo, and CZ repeaters, I've never seen the need for more than a very few rounds after cleaning to get a barrel shooting to its potential again. While it's typical to see some effects when...
  16. flatland1

    DeLane Development Group Rimfire Ventures

    I bought a full case of SK Pistol Match several years ago after lot testing five or six lots of it, and finding out that the hardest thing to do was to try to figure out which of those lots shot best - it all shot great! But I think it was only really that good at 50yds. Still have a few bricks...
  17. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Sightron SVIII 5-40x56 ED

    I ran out of patience or optimism about another sale on Sightron's high-end scopes and called Lance, just a bit before Doug posted his reply. Tracking shows that the SVIII I bought from Lance is to be delivered this Friday....just before the next blast of sub-zero arctic air is due to blast...
  18. flatland1

    Rifle Scopes Sightron SVIII 5-40x56 ED

    Looking forward to the next time Sightron runs a sale on these scopes...will have one coming when that happens, for sure.
  19. flatland1

    Suppressors .30 or .22: Best First Suppressor?

    I started out with (and I hate to admit it) an AAC SCAR-h. While it was a pretty effective silencer, the AAC mount was a POS - I could set up at 600yds and get a good solid zero, pull the can & then replace it and my POI would shift about 6" every time. It took a bit over a year to get the...
  20. flatland1

    Thoughts on the Aero Precision SOLUS ?

    Kinda discouraging to hear that it took so long to get the 223 bolthead. I ordered another Solus short action with the .382 bolthead & PVD FDE finish back on Nov. 22, and haven't heard squat on when to expect it, even though they dinged my CC for it. Not like I'm dying here needing it, as I have...
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