It's been a while since I made a specific effort to provide a status update, so here we go:
MODUS Rifles: We have a bespoke stock for all of the rifles now and they're in production already. The stocks are carbon shell, lightweight core and they're a shade under 25oz as shown with a full thickness recoil pad. We can do adjustable cheeks on a custom order, we're not planning to keep those in the normal production queue because of the weight that most guys (understandably) don't want to be penalized for on a mountain rifle. Due to several price increases we've gotten on the action, new stocks and other production costs on the rifle we are unfortunately going to have to increase the price going forward as of May 15th.
The long action, lightweight option with carbon barrel currently weighs less than 6.5lb and several of them have been holding match rifle performance on 800+ yard targets. I'm pretty confident in saying that we've got a rifle that will compete or outclass just about any other high dollar package on the market. We've been working with
Vantage Research and they're offering turn key ammo with our bulltes for the Modus rifles as well.
AR15 barrels: We just finished up a batch of AR barrels (I apologize for how long it took us)
We have 223 Wyldes in the usual 16/18/20 and we added 16" with Intermediate length gas (using the Noveske spec IM). I didn't make a ton of those so we could see how they would sell, but we do have about 2 dozen available currently.
223 Wylde
22 ARC
6mm ARC
Osprey Blanks and Prefits: We're doing pretty well here as usual, standard lead time is 8 weeks and we have some rush slots allocated after hours each week for those who find themselves in a bind (or they're just impatient ;-)
Chambers: I added or am adding a few new calibers to the website over the next few weeks as reamers arrive.
- 7mm Backcountry (limited action options due to high pressure design)
- 7 Sherman Max, current gen
- 7 Sherman Mega, current gen
- 7 SWC (Sherman improved variant of the 7x47 Lapua)
- 22 PRC
- 6 PRC
- 25 PRC
- 6.5 x 7 PRC
- 6 x 7 PRC
- 7 WSM (apparently brass is back in production so we're dusting this one off) - call us prior to ordering please
Solus Barreled Actions: As receivers arrive we add them to the website in limited quantities. Due to the current lead times and nature of Solus availability over the past 6 months we aren't able to offer a standard lead time unless we actually have the actions on hand. I'm working to have a better solution in the coming months but for now, that's where things stand.
We do have some extra solus bolt heads in various sizes, again due to availability, they're for sale with a prefit only.
Projectiles: We are doing final testing on some 7mm 185 class hunting and match bullets currently. They require 7tw barrels (we have Ospreys in 7tw) and the BC is looking quite impressive on both. 0.42-0.43 on the hunting bullets and about 12-15% higher on the match variants (0.50 roughly).
Based on some feedback with other Hide members I've also updated the 170's to help out some guys who had borderline stability problems. I sent prototypes off to
@Conrad and another member here to do testing side by side with the latest generation. Some guys are reporting no issues, a few are having problems. We have not be able to recreate stability problems here so while I'm digging into it I'm also not sure we have a problem with the advertised product. Many thousands of them have been shot with excellent results.
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