Howdy, guys and gals! Welcome to the mess of The Social Regressive. This is
kind of what the bench ends up looking like before I go out on a shoot all
kinds of little things that have to be done last-minute all kinds of little
prep work and the biggest stuff goes on right here you guys have been wondering
about the 243 Winchester barrel that I put on the savage 12FV here this is my
telekinesis furniture this is my telekinesis rifle and sitting up here we have that
brand new preferred barrel blanks barrel this is a 26 inch varmint profiled
barrel using their barrel nut and as you can see it's threaded on the end I have
a muzzle brake on there and it's also the attachment for my suppressor and a
couple of times I've gone out when all the you know the Stars have aligned
everything has just been just right where the the weather is just right and
all this that I can try to get my my perfect load workups and be able to test
those out at 300 yards to make sure that I can figure out what load this gun
likes best and I kind of figured out that I did some things wrong you guys
saw the previous video where I hadn't locked the scope down I hadn't torqued
it so that it was kind of moving around on me and messing up my groups so this
time I was able to get everything just aligned just right I was able to get out
to a field to get 300 yards get everything locked down and but before I
did that I was just kind of testing some things on my rifle to be sure that
everything else was squared away you know still shooting sub em away but it
was just not making me happy it was not doing what it should be and it turns out
that I hadn't really checked the barrel clearance here this is a different very
bare all pro file than your average savage varmint er so it turned out that
I was actually touching the the sides of the barrel channel in a couple of places
I actually pretty much most of the way through so I went in I did a bunch of
cleanup work using the the files and sandpaper and dowels and all that you
see back here and then I also took a little extra time to freefloat the tang
back here that's and I didn't do a long time ago I didn't
know that I had to so this now is all ready to go I went out and I shot with
this and I gotta show you the results there were some issues so I was only
able to shoot one type of ammo to test it and the other ones I'm gonna save for
another time the grass was too high and I think that some of my projectiles were
actually clipping blades of grass between me and the target and I wanted
to be absolutely sure that there was no interference I'm gonna have to find
another time when the weather is just right and go try it again but this right
here this is a 10 shot group with Hornady 87 grain v-max projectiles and using
Reloder 16 and br-2 primers from CCI yeah that's a it's a 10 shot group at
300 yards and each one of those is a very different powder charge each of
those is separated by about 0.3 grains so these are not the same load at all
they're all kind of you know stepping up to see where these are gonna hit on the
paper and we're gonna be able to analyze this data here soon we'll do that in its
own breakout video to figure out what my optimal load is going to be but as you
can see overall that barrel rocks especially once I got the wood squared
away I got the scope actually attached yeah 300 yards and a little bit of
shifting wind that I had and yeah without even the same powder charge this
is going to be a monster of a rifle those easily fit not just in my hand but
in the palm of my hand those it's a an impressive little group and once we
actually figure out what this gun likes hitting eggs at 300 yards is gonna be no
trick at all and we're gonna see which ones I want to use and now I did go out
with a couple different loads that was the 87 grain v-max right there but I
also did bring some some work ups for the 105 grain Vth pea match from Hornady
and I'm expecting those to do really really well the 87 s they tend to do
really well in whatever I've I put them through they're just a really
cool projectile 75s are really good as well but the 105's I think are gonna be some
good thousand range a thousand yard beasts in this rifle so yeah the way
that I squared this rifle away get the barrel channel cleaned up it felt like a
totally different rifle this is a monster and with this scope on top
especially the Bushnell Match Pro you really have to check this scope out go
check out its stats this is taking a lot of the elite tactical goodies and it
just kind of borrows things from all kinds of different rifle scope lines and
puts them into this one so you have a reticle it's a whole lot like the Horace
h 59 this is the the deploy mil so you have the you know big Christmas tree
type reticle lots of data lots of little points for you to work with and that's
the sort of thing that I really love 6 to 24 power on there FFP reticle for
that that deploy mil and then it has you know the locking turrets it has a zero
stop illumination and a beautiful crisp image that you can really nail down your
parallax with it is a magnificent scope for those of you that are interested in very
precise shooting so maybe varmint target shooting this
one's designed for target work for competitors like especially an NRL 22 or
one of the other very precise sports be great for F class but yeah for vomiting
as well that's the exact scope that I would want to take out for prairie dogs
some of the other stuff that's going on back here we are testing five seven by
28 I've done a couple tests with that so far and it is shooting very
interestingly you're gonna want to see how this comes out five seven by 28 is a
weird little cartridge and we're gonna talk about all its eccentricities and
who might want to use it where but for now I've been doing some some tests
hitting ballistics gel with body armor in front of it so we can see what kind
of distances you can actually shoot some of these cartridges and they'll actually
still pass through the body armor yeah it's been pretty fun getting out
there and I can see what the accuracy of the the cartridge is like we are going
to have some good fun with it and kind of ancillary to testing out some of the
ammunition and testing out some of these rifles we do have some other gear that's
going to be making appearances we have the Blackhawk hybrid folding sights
which so far I'm a huge fan of you're going to want to see the full review on
this later they weigh essentially nothing picking up this box without the
sight in it is pretty much the same as picking up the box with the sight in it
they've managed to keep it very very light a very good competitor for the
Magpul em bus and then we're also going to be able to show scopes a bit better
like that match pro using this tactic and back here the tactic cam is one of
those action cameras that you can it's really designed for bows and for guns
it's easy to slap it along the side they have all kinds of accessories so you can
attach it to your rifle point it forward so you can see your target or in my case
I'm gonna be using this little guy right here which actually collects light
coming from the scope so I can look through the scope with my one eye but
then some of the light is peeled off redirected to the camera and you guys
will be able to see exactly what I'm shooting at this is gonna be a great way
to demonstrate the scopes and it's also going to be a really neat way for you to
see how I take some of the shots that I do and what it actually looks like when
I'm taking that shot so you can see if I'm you know kind of squirreling around
before I take this shot you can see if there's any flinch in a way it's it
might be kind of embarrassing in some situations but overall you'll be able to
see what realistic shooting is like for me you know what I actually see through
the scope one last thing tomorrow I'm going to be interviewed by the kilo 23
group which is dedicated to spy craft but he's kind of getting interested more
in the firearms end of things so he's gonna be asking me some questions but
you guys let's ask him some questions to maybe we can turn the tables on him put
some questions down below in the comments things that you might be
interested in related to spy craft maybe he'll be able to pull it from personal
experience or from one of the the interviewees that he's had
before and I'm kind of curious to hear what you guys might think about
spy-related stuff and don't miss that video when it comes out I don't know if
it's going to be live on his channel I'll put a link down below I'll put some
kind of annotation if it is going to be live but if it's going to be kind of a
rebroadcast I'll put a link to that video around here as well once that goes
out what kind of repost this and you can check that video out thanks to everyone
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