Got this a few months ago to fill the carbine role in team matches. The rifle it's replacing is behind it.
It's the dual charge version, I forget the nomenclature. Billet upper and lower. 20" barrel with the tank brake. SCSS, low mass bcg, Geiselle NM trigger. The Schmidt 5-25 sits in a 25 MOA Spurn mount.
I spent weeks working up a load. I've settled on 23.5g of TAC and 77 SMK's. It shoots those about into 1/2" with SDs around 8-10. I moved that loading process over to my Dillon 1050 and am getting almost identical results except I'm loading 600 rounds an hour or more.
In the interest of being thorough, I ran a seating depth test early on. It showed a marked preference for having the bullet seated 0.010" less than mag length.
After weeks of load development, I took it and the old match rifle to the range. I wanted to see how the new load shot in the old gun. To my delight, I got identical results. The old gun shot it maybe even a touch better. What stunned me was the difference in recoil. After weeks of shooting nothing but the JP, I got down behind the old gun and fired a shot. I honestly thought I'd broken something. I got up off the gun to see what was wrong, and figured out that I'd just forgotten what the recoil impulse felt like on that old gun. Until the JP, I'd thought my old rifle was a very soft shooting.223. By comparison, it kicks like a mule. (Still pretty soft shooting by absolute standards).
Ive shot it in a few local matches now, and it's the easiest rifle I own to shoot well. It's softer shooting even than my 18# Dasher, I think. I can spot impacts easily at 300 kneeling off a tripod, my personal test for ease of shooting.
I love it. Favorite rifle out of a group of decent rifles.
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