I shot an AI today, and I liked it

[carbonbased]

+1. I've been shooting pdogs off a table off my Jeep hood. Sandbags with range cards plastered all over the table. Mostly dasher and 6br. Prefer the roundish chassis on the AT as nothing is ever flat and the cooler looking AX can bite a bit. 22-250 in an AI must deliver spectacular hits, moved from a .220 swift to 6br, 260, and dasher for BBL life. You see a lot more pink mist than I do. That part I miss.

I’m not a reloader. I shoot the Hornady 50gr Superperformance in my 22-250. Chrono’ed at 4145 fps during a hot day lol (gotta zoom up on the Garmin)

Start about here to see some 22-250 explosions. I have some earlier in the thread too, but they are of my 204.

Small varmint kills (the bastards!)

Had a bit o’ time to make a gif of one of the above shots…

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[shreddykruger]

I've got an AT-X v2 from about 8 - 10 mos before the atx-c dropped and love it. Absolute hammer of a rifle. I've got an AXSR that was put together from new parts and shot it at the last 2 ELRs which also is just extremely accurate.
At this point the only other bolt guns are my TL3 in a magnesium chassis for NRL hunter matches and my fun yote tl3 to finally have a 223 AI.

 

[hafejd30]

I miss my AI

The best part is, if you ever ran out of ammo in a SHTF situation, the damn thing could be used as a club and then probably still hold its zero when you find more ammo.

Here she is

 

[hafejd30]

Why no AI for a 6mm comp gun? Just curious. It can’t be for weight lol as some of the comp guns I have seen are on the ridiculous side lol. But if you can hump it then I say let them run whatever they want. So like I said, I know it’s not weight so why wouldn’t you run them in that set up?

Has nothing to do with weight or if I’d run them or not. I don’t shoot prs so my statement was just in general I’ll never use them for that role. I bang steel and kill deer with mine.

308
260
300 WSM

Those are my AI platforms

My comp gun is a custom for fclass in 284. If I shot comps with the AI I’d heavily consider a 6mm with the updated mags they have now. I just have no use for it in my current setup. So I never see myself running them. Not that they can’t or won’t fill the role well

 

[SilentStalkr]

Has nothing to do with weight or if I’d run them or not. I don’t shoot prs so my statement was just in general I’ll never use them for that role. I bang steel and kill deer with mine.

308
260
300 WSM

Those are my AI platforms

My comp gun is a custom for fclass in 284. If I shot comps with the AI I’d heavily consider a 6mm with the updated mags they have now. I just have no use for it in my current setup. So I never see myself running them. Not that they can’t or won’t fill the role well

I got you. I misunderstood your post. Nice looking rifle!

 

[hafejd30]

I got you. I misunderstood your post. Nice looking rifle!

Thank you

That’s the newest adventure and came from @TheBigCountry

Originally looked like this. Got a Manzella 260 barrel and Black Canyon Customs 300 WSM Barrel for it

Here’s my other and the original gangster in 308

This one hits fields 1-3 times a week currently for deer.

 

[TheBigCountry]

Thank you

That’s the newest adventure and came from @TheBigCountry

Originally looked like this. Got a Manzella 260 barrel and Black Canyon Customs 300 WSM Barrel for it

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Here’s my other and the original gangster in 308

This one hits fields 1-3 times a week currently for deer.
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Still waiting on some back straps or jerky lol