Our journey has taken us north, up through the stunning rugged countryside Norway is
famous for.
It may be summer but it can feel like winter up here.
We're now about 350 km north west of Oslo.
We're heading for Hornindal, the home of GRS rifle stocks . A few years ago this family
run business went from making hand crafted furniture to high quality rifle stocks with
a little help from Oscar.
We started the GRS Rifle Stocks in 2011 and it has been a very exciting journey, taking
the business from furniture to rifle stocks.
We now have 15 people working exclusively with rifle stocks.
All our other business including furniture has now gone.
It has been a very challenging but exciting journey from start to end.
Everything is made to order as you probably know, you can choose different style of stock
or you can choose different colours and also the inlet that you need.
So everything is produced on order for your specification.
You can see it comes in as a standard laminate blocks and it goes through a band saw and
then it goes through the lathes and a cse machine sand finally to finishing and engraving
and packaging.
It is a process we want to keep here in Norway.
We think it is very important to keep industrial work bases in Norway.
Oscar's business has grown fast and his stylish stocks are attracting interest from some of
the worlds biggest gun manufacturers . Charlie was shown Browning's X-bolt at the IWA trade
show earlier in the year.
They want a customized rifle.
This is ideal, the new X-bolt, GRS which is a groder rifle stock with a varmint barrel,
fleeted barrel with fully adjustable stock dimensions, buck pad - fits as close as you
can get to a custom built rifle at a much cheaper price.
Okay, you need half a ml.
up, half a ml.
right.
Adjust on the scope, five flicks up, five flicks right.
Back to Norway and we are going to get some long range shooting tips..
After a long drive through beautiful Norway, We have seen waterfalls, we have seen lots
of people, tourists especially, we have made it up to the north western coast of Norway
where we have met up with Oscar and Oscar is going to teach us something about long
range shooting.
I have tried quite a lot and I have beaten some guys from Team Fieldsport Channel in
Ulfborg when we went rifle shooting range over there - sorry Roy, I had to mention this!
But today actually I will let Rags try this out.
She has been shooting quite a lot and she is pretty hard on her rifle actually but she
has never shot further than 300 metre so I think it is time Rags practices and gets the
right boys to tell her how to shoot.
The plan now is to shoot here and we have some targets starting at 800, 1000, 1200,
1500.
I have brought some Melons so we will see what Rex is capable of doing with that gun.
Rags is so nervous she can't stop saying hello Charlie!
Hello Charlie!, Hello Charlie!, Hello Charlie!
We are going to learn some long range shooting so I am very excited to see how these guys
are doing because they are sharp on this and I think I am going to be quite tense in my
body.
So I will see if I can hit the target.
There is a lot to learn but we are going to try and keep it simple - we start with your
positioning and of course the all important stock.
The really important thing with the rifle stocks and the cheek piece is to get the correct
cheek piece adjustment.
When you get the correct adjustment you will have no need to adjust your head to get in
the crosses?
You take away tension from the neck and shoulders when you have the correct position and therefore
you add consistency to your shooting position.
It is very important to have the correct elevation in the scope.
A high quality glass.
It is very important to have a good quality barrel with a good length so you get a lot
of velocity with the bullets.
Of course you need a very good stock.
When the stock is in the rear bag, that will go back and forth in the recoil without any
friction and it will go in a straight line giving you more position in a shot.
Equipment does not compensate for bad training.
That is very important to point out.
You need good equipment but use a lot of time on the range.
Shoot a lot.
Dry fire if you have time and you will get success in long range shooting.
Oscar's final tip is to keep your mouth open but there is a downside with the larger calibers.
When your jaw is closed you will have tension in your cheeks - when you have it open you
will have more relaxation.
The only problem you have when you shoot 50 cals is a mouth full of dust and gravel.
How should we look?
Hopefully like this!
Like a fish!
We're not shooting a 50 cal today but the .338 lapua!
This is a very common cartridge for military sniping but it hs also been very popular for
civilian shooting.
This is something that we reload a lot here in Norway.
Reloading is very popular.
It is also a way of fine tuning your rifle and your ammunition.
With some fine tuning Rags is hitting the target.
It's a great feeling for her.
It is a good feeling to hit it at that long range?
It is a very good feeling, it is strange though, because the sound is coming after woulds and
then you just see the dust.
Now its my turn.
It is my first time ever I have to shoot a Kelbly Rifle.
It is an American long range shooting manufactured rifle and I know the guy who owns it.
I met him at Las Vegas and the Shot Show and he always asked me about trying this rifle.
Try it whenever you get it in your hands so now, first time ever, me shooting a Kelbly
Rifle - I am quite excited.
When it doesn't hit, it is, of course, not my fault.
Please remember that.
What I have experience with this rifle is how smooth the bolt is.
I have always thought the Americans cannot make smooth bolts and it was up to Sour but
this is a kind of nice bolt.
Good work Kelbly - we like it a lot.
Now we've all had a go at the targets it's time for me to get the melons out.
I gave the guys, and of course, Rags, a challenge.
They have been practicing quite a lot and Rags is doing very well so instead of just
shooting at iron targets - I gave them a challenge.
I took two melons, placed them up here (just so you know how small the melons are) and
placed them some metres away from the guys who are standing down there somewhere.
That is one thousand metres away.
I gave them five bullets each and the one who hits their melon first - Rags is shooting
at the left one and our friend is shooting at the right one - is the winner of the game.
Rags is putting plenty of shells into the earth around the target so if you're a melon
at 1000m your safe when she's in town.
Back to the factory and I ask Oscar where he wants to take GRS - Is it hunting or tactical?
It is actually both.
As you probably know also I have been ten years in the army as a Sniper instructor and
that gives us a lot of knowledge of what works in the field.
How to manufacture and develop products.
So, what we have seen so far from us is mostly shooting and for hunting.
This year we are moving into chasis stocks.
A more tactical line for long range shooting.
We are enthusiasts who want to spread the word and get people to shoot long range.
So it is more of a mission than just a business.
It is a passion for us and that is very important.
Just before we leave there are a few water melons left with my name on them.
This time we're keeping it short range.
Oscar and GRS have shown us a great time and taught us some new skills...now were heading
even further north where we're hoping to get a chance to try something totally new salmon
fishing.
Please follow me on facebook and if you want to join me and Rags on hunting trips later
in the year please go to my website maxhunt.eu.