Nice to see another member “discover “ the ‘06! It’s truely a versatile cartridge and is very accurate too. I have no regrets in having mine …
210 SMKs and 208 ELDs are your friends….
All of the companies that do business with china to produce their products have danced with the devil. They wanted cheap labor to get a higher profit. Once the Chinese fulfill their quota with the companies they continue to make that product and ship it out the back door even cheaper. Then the...
Correct, it’s an Lothar Walther….the barrel isn’t bad because I didn’t do any load development with it. I just used the loads from a previous LW barrel from ‘06 and it was shooting in the .7s. I’m sure I could have tightened things up if I tried. I think it just didn’t love this bullet like the...
Well….a barrel swap took care of the problem. The LW probably would shoot at distance with another bullet but since I have so many 178s I let the tail wag the dog. I actually went with a cheaper barrel, I caught a SS nitride Armalite barrel on sale from CDNN for under $200 a couple of weeks ago...
Barrel was 18 inches long, I replaced it with another 18 inch barrel. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to go out to 700 or beyond the last time out because of so many people at the range. I will try again when I am off through the week and report back. So far at 600 the new barrel was G2G.
I'm running a Sig Tango MSR 1-6 on a BRN-180, I dropped the rifle on a rock. It was hard enough to break the little handle on the power adjustment ring, the scope still held its zero. The glass is pretty good for the price range...