5.2oz for us knuckledraggers in the imperial system, fn apes!
Hinge also only adds ~1oz (25g), so not much downside.
Nice - I stripped one of the screws trying to take the low action rail off trying to put the high rail on....what kind of apes put those on?
I think the screw heads are soft and loose. I bet it didn't even take much force to strip. On advise of this thread I didn't even bother with the hex heads and tapped a T15 bit into the hex head and then they backed out without any issue.
Did you machine up an adapter to use the Q stock? That looks fantastic.
This is someone else’s rifle Il let him speak up
This is with the high rail and a short top bridge. I left the bag rider on the stock. It’s about 1.6 oz so not much to it.
I didn’t think about switching the rail. I had a spuhr but it was 1.18 and barely cleared the bridge so i grabbed a arc mount in 1.5 off the px. I couldn't stomach 500 bucks for another spuhr.
Unfortunately no. It doesn’t even come close. If you leave the bolt open yes.
saga continues, a reverse cutting screw extractor broke.. Still need to get this one out. Probably drill time...
Heat is also your friend. The combo of pot metal screws, metric hex and the threadlocker, euates to stripped screws. I stripped the first one, but removed after tapping a T15 torx into it. Last screws I heated with small butane torch, tapped the T15 into and they came out pretty easily.
Wasn't able to move it, best I got was being able to grind the stump of the extractor down flush to the screw head. Time for a machinist/gunsmith. Anyone have a good recommendation for someone in Northern Virginia?
Bugholes isn’t that far
Northern Virginia Gunworks.
you and everyone else.
I think there may be one remaining AT-X on the exchange forum, but you'll have to dig back a month or two - it had no barrel and some dings on the side and was around $3600.
Wait for the AT-XC's to start shipping and buy a used one. I will likely sell mine for somewhere in that price range once I have the new AT-XC.
I'm genuinely curious why you'd dump your AT-X for the AT-XC.
I'm willing to bet if the bolt lift is noticeably lighter lots of AT-X owners will be dumping them for the AT-XC. Better to sell it before the market dips a lot. AIs have been overpriced for the feature set for a long time so paying over $2k more for hundreds of dollars worth of accessories and a lighter bolt lift would be par for the course for a typical AI owner.
How bad do you think the fire sale dumping will be? labradar bad?
and lighter bolt lift have my attention.lol, noooo.... Labradar only survived as long as it did because it was the only well-established commercial/affordable radar chrono available. Very different situation. Just a guess but I think a good condition AT-X will hover around $3.5-4K with little accessories or $4K or more with lots of accessories. Could be less but I doubt it will be more because once a few used AT-XCs hit the market the AT-X will take another hit. I don't think it will be long before there are used AT-XCs on the market either since it didn't take long at all for used AT-Xs to hit the market after it's release.
So you can't tell a difference between a new(ish) AT-X and a new(ish) AXSR? I say new(ish) for both because it's hard to know how well broken in a used rifle is.
you can tell a little bit but it isn’t huge. I don’t think anyone that has an ATX will say the new C is night and day different. And honestly I’m not sure it’ll be anything noticeable over a well broken in ATX.
This is funny because the only people I see saying this is current AT-X owners hoping they don't take a huge lose when they next best thing comes out. They might not dip in price a lot but to say they will increase in price is funny for sure. There has been and still are AT-Xs around for $4kish and $3.5ish without a barrel. I agree some new AT-X owners won't wanna spend $6.5-7K but AI Loyalists have been and will continue to pay that without question.
Not like it's a different rifle... The AT-XC is the AT-X with minor "improvements" and they are making you buy the accessories. Well it will be interesting to see which way it goes. No one likes the new price but I still think there will be plenty of people willing to pay it. Leupold and NF scopes win matches and kill animals but people still pay for ZCO and TT because people are willing to pay a lot for little improvements.
