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Finally! New barrel in house. 76 cm of unicorn steel (at least for us in Norway.) It`s a Bartlein 1-7.7" twist 5R. Chambered in 7 mm Blaser Magnum. So far I have only tested 190 gr A-tip with N570 and Fed 215. Results: 69,0gr avg 911 m/s = 2989 fps 69,5gr avg 925 m/s = 3034 fps 70,0gr avg 934...

The Barlein barrel I now have at my gunsmith is 1-7.7"... Hence my bullet blow-up nightmares... 1-8.7 should be no problem. I`m going with the slightly smaller 7 mm Blaser instead of 7 mm practical. I got swelling near the magnum belt after only two firings on the 300 wm brass, and had do...

around 3000fps, blew up after 600 meters, over a lake. Spectacular, but very annoying... 1 in 3.

Thank you for info, not familiar with Brux barrels. What kind of rifling are they using? 5R? something similar? Had a lilja 1-8” that blew up the 197 SMK :-( But hoping the Bartlein 1-7.7” 5R Will treat bullets better 🙏

Hi, could you please tell me what barrel, twist and BC you are using? I'm plagued with bullet blow-up problems in the 7mm Practical. My plan is to go with 7mm Blaser and a Bartlein barrel 1-7.7" 5R. Got 500pc 190 A-TIP but I'm scared to have the same results as with the 180 ELD-M... Reading your...

Hi Guys, Thank you for your patience and encouragement. Hope you still find it worth your time... :-) Nightforce 8-32x 56 MLR SFP Nightforce is known to us for its ruggedness and overbuilt construction. We saw exactly that, a solid reassuring construction with aggressive turrets for...

Reticle thickness... well, maybe it starts to get a little on the heavy side after about 18 magnification. But there were difference in opinion among us regarding this matter. What I can say is that the floating dot makes up for the slightly heavy reticle on high magnification and we did not see...

IOR Tactical 6-24x56 FFP SH-1 IR The IOR 6-24x56 did of course attract our interest, it has tactical in the name and in appearance. It sports rugged design, easy to understand functions and with a few interesting tweaks. Mounting it on the Tikka T3 sporter seemed as a good match since it is...

Good evening and apologies for the delay, here is the next scope.... U.S Optics ER 3.2-17x44 FFP GAP-MIL The next US optics was obviously related to the first, no doubt, however this scope emerged as a bit more sensible to us compared to the USO 5-25x58. Size and weight were good, and it felt...

U.S. Optics ER-25 5-25x58 FFP GAP-MIL IR And so we were in totally unknown territory, none of us had ever tried US optics. We did not know what to expect. When mounting the scope to the rifle it was almost absurd how large it was. The Erek knob gave an almost sinister look to the scope. This...

Hey Guys, Thank you for kind words and encouragement! I´m back translating and will start to post the rest of the scopes we looked at this upcoming week. Sorry that it has taken me so long, but life is sometimes unpredictable... Stay tuned ;-)

Hi Guys, Christmas is upon us and translation is slowed down by its obligations. Currently working on the US optic scopes... Some pics from the range for now... Merry Christmas!!! Emil

Good evening Gentlemen, you do keep me busy translating with your encouragement. Thank you for being nice to the rookie :-) Now, another March for you... March-F 3-24x42 FFP FML-1 IR We spent a lot of time with its bigger brother so this scope got less attention in some ways. The...

Hi Guys, time for some japanese glass... March-FX 5-40x56 FFP FML-1 IR This scope was mounted on the TRG with Spuhr´s ISMS on both days. We were curious and excited to try it out. From the unboxing, it attracted attention, excitement and hesitation. Could this elegant, sleek looking scope...

Thank you for the encouragement Guys! Glad you find it interesting...:-) Here is the next riflescope, freshly translated: Hensoldt ZF 4-16x56 FFP LT IR Ok, another Hensoldt… But with FFP, Zero stop and locking turrets! Yey!! The turrets are fairly large without protrusions sticking...

Hensoldt ZF 6-24x72 IR MIL DOT IR Well, to start off with this scope is really not fair to the others. In all regards this scope is somewhat in a different league of optics. It is huge! The bell is indeed large and places the ocular lens high. Turrets are excellent in their shape and...

OK, just to start somewhere... Testing was done by "Listers Härads Skyttesällskap" a small shooting club in South East of Sweden Supplying the optics was mainly AstroSweden, we had a couple sitting on our own rifles. Sako Sweden Supplied a couple of rifles (TRG, Tikka sporter and Sako...

Thank you for your replies Guys! I´m not native in english so forgive my translation shortcomings. The material is a bit large and translation takes some time for me. However I can post it as I go along if that´s ok?

Well, since I´m a greenhorn here and there are rules I´d thought I check first... I´m interested to post it because of the expertise and wealth of experience circling around here, and it might be interesting to discuss the findings with you guys. So, unless somebody objects in the near future...

Hi Guys, New to the forum, so I want to know if it is OK to post a summary of a test we made of some nice riflescopes the other weekend. It includes about 18 scopes, among them Hensolt, Kahles, USO, Ior, Nightforce, Vortex, S&B, March, Nikon and a few others... We were 9 shooters with...