good morning it's a beautiful day for a 600 yard match and we're going to be
retesting the savage axis rifle that we've been working on for about a year now
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you haven't been following along with this because again the rifle will be
changing over time we have a pretty good thing going on right now but we have
some other matches coming up in the future and I'm sure there'll be some
other tweaks on the rifle we have that 1,000 yard match coming up in about
three weeks so today's 600 yard match should be a
really good testbed to see how the upgrades that I've made to this have
improved the handling and the actual grouping quality of the rifle some of
the things that we've done between the last match and now the primary problem
was the scope which was a Simmons and that just didn't really work out the
glass just wasn't good enough for us to get really tight groups it worked I was
able to keep all the shots on target and I don't think I fell outside the seven
ring I don't think but we can definitely improve that so this is a Falcon M 18
plus second focal plane rifle scope this is really nice I'm gonna check out that
review it's right over here on the side we also have a new black pad this is
going to be a lot squishier a lot more comfortable that was one of the problems
that I had competing last time is that the fin I mean it was almost like just a
sheet of plastic on the back that came with the Boyd stock was really beating
me up pretty good this is very comfortable I put 50 rounds you know
back-to-back through this thing so far we know with that butt pad and it feels
really nice I have this temporary cheek riser I wanted to have the more
permanent one made out of Kydex done for this match and I want to do tutorial on
how it's gonna do a non-destructive Kydex cheek riser but the Kydex just
didn't come in in time so hopefully we'll have that for the 1,000 yard match
but for now this will work just fine this is gonna get my face in the right
place so I'm just gonna be looking straight through the rifle scope and as
a reminder we're firing 7mm-08 we're gonna be doing
162 grain ELD match bullets I'm using Varget for the powder and you
know if I'm really stable it's a 0.5 MOA 5 shot group that I can
get through this thing even with the thin
barrel and in the prone position I'm usually seeing anywhere between that
you know half MOA and then three quarters in my way so it's gonna be
pretty accurate as long as I can read the wind okay it's gonna be good because
today the wind is going to be a little bit wild it's gonna be coming from a
pretty favorable direction the prevailing wind around here is usually
kind of south-southwest that's where the wind is gonna be coming from if the
forecast is right right now it feels like it's coming out of the
north-northeast so at some point I imagine it's gonna switch but yeah we're
gonna be getting up toward 20 miles an hour which is you know not exactly the
easiest wind but it's something that we're pretty used to dealing with out here
at this range at this club and it's gonna be coming from a direction that
we're used to seeing it's not an easy direction really but at least it's one
that we're used to dealing with in in the last couple of matches we had these
headwinds and tailwind that were just they were awful everything was just
switching back and forth really tough to work around so yeah this time we're gonna be
coming it's gonna be coming pretty much straight across and we are because it's
coming out of the south and going over hill there's gonna be swirling winds
there's gonna be stuff that's you know doing some vertical changes so it's
gonna be a lot of wind reading today it's going to be difficult but it
shouldn't be as difficult as the past couple of times we'll see how that goes
we just finished the 600 yard match here at red castle gun club and I ran into
one of the guys that have been chatting with online and he was able to make it
out for this match I'm gonna let him tell his story about what happened today
first again you know 600 yards thrown so how'd it go I actually did pretty good
and I did until I had a mechanical failure I had something going on with my
primers there's burnt holes through my ejector stopped grabbing hold order the
next day today there's tractor and it just stuck out I couldn't figure out
what was going on so I had to call her quits but I think I did pretty good I
got a couple of bulls out of it yeah yeah it sounded like the firing
itself was going well then I'll have to get a close-up of the the bolt face for
you because it's it's pretty ash it looks a lot like little craters on the
moon there yes what is the other rifle here savage bt 11 varmint we've got a 24
inch barrel it's kind of a heavy barrel it's fully floated and it's pretty good
rifle yeah yeah I really like this setup and your telling about the the mag it's
a kind of a custom conversion right right I bought this off a guy who's
making these for these I don't think they make a 10-round mag for this I
couldn't find one I got impatient found somebody's making one to sit here you
know here's money give me what you know but it sure
made it look cool I think yeah he does look really cool yes W have big SS scope
on top it's the 10x that's that's a good match yeah so for those of you that are
looking for a kind of a budget let's go SWF a is kind of one of those it's
better than budget it's one of those that despite what the price is it's
supposed to be really really good it rocks tracking is excellent it goes
where you tell it to go out it goes back to where you know back to zero hold zero
I have had no trouble with it in probably two years I've had it and this
is something new that I put on this rifle I've got it on the appropriate
rifle this what it deserves to be honest with you it's a really awesome scope
yeah I'm happy and to get your eye in the right spot
you have the Kydex riser there mm unlike my my duct tape and foam and plastic one
here but hey this actually worked out today so yeah after-action report on
what I did with this rifle I am indeed very very happy with how the glass
worked out I was expecting that to improve things quite a bit
and it really did it was much easier to see what I was doing I wasn't getting
any that extinguishes ISM with the the image blurring around
so yeah scope was great tracking was great on that
and this thing was actually grouping really well I improved the scores over
last time so to go back and actually check what the scores were at the last
one but for the first to realize it was a 167 I accidentally shot the wrong guys
target otherwise that would have been about a 175 on there but I had to
throw away that that whole target I was averaging about you know eight points
per shot a little bit higher than that but we'll just assume that probably
would have been about an eighth again and that would have brought things have
been to about 175 second relay 177 so again you know those scores are
improving over the last time the comfort is also vastly improved the the recoil
pad here is way better than that horrible flat thing that they gave me on
the Boyd's this is very comfy the whole rifle
overall was comfy I didn't have to try to score him around to get my eye
through the scope or anything like that so overall it was all good except in the
third relay I was firing some loads that I developed over the winter and
those were using a different kind of brass and during the winter it was fine
but if he if you know this sort of stuff during the summer or when things just
get a little bit warmer you can start spiking your pressures so I actually had
to back out of the third relay so I couldn't score that one things were
looking all right maybe but I'm gonna have to rework some of my stuff and when
I do the thousand-yard match on the 29th it's it should be a lot better I'm gonna
make sure that I don't have any pressure problems or anything and I should just
be able to finish the match and actually get the full score and I think that's
pretty much it good seeing out here oh you do enjoyed it
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