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hey guys Todd Helms all here today with Eastmans' at the range once again this
time to bring you a review on the Snowy Mountain Rifles Alpine Hunter all right
so the Snowy Mountain Rifles Alpine Hunter is a seven and a half pound
custom slash production rifle Snowy Mountain Rifles does a full slate of
custom rifles they can pretty much build you whatever it is you want but they
have three models of rifle that are in production all the time they have the
full curl the Alaskan and this bad boy the Alpine Hunter the Alpine Hunter
comes with a lot of options for you to choose from this one is set up and from
the factory they shipped it to me in a 65 by 47 Lapua you've got a lot of
different calibers to choose from so go on the website at snowy mountain rifles
comm and check out all the great options but let's break down this rifle right
here starting with the stock it's an AG composite stock and its carbon fiber
helps shave weight off the rifle if we move up you have a Defiance Deviant
Hunter action not much more accurate than a defiance action guys you've got a
trigger tech trigger in here this comes with a half MOA guarantee this is a
proof barrel Proof Research carbon barrel that is actually a three hundred
dollar upgrade on the Alpine Hunter available on the website again there are
some options for you that you can go through once you decide that you want to
literally pull the trigger on one of these bad boys so you do have a choice
of bottom metal on the Alpine Hunter from Snowy Mountain Rifles they so one
that they sent me has the eight has the HS style box magazine I could fit for
four rounds in this one with the 65 by forty-seven Lapua it's compact its light
goes in nice tight fit it's all metal another great thing about
snowy mountain rifles is with your rifle they will custom load ammunition for you
the ammunition that came with this rifle is specifically loaded for the serial
number on this rifle so I mean while you could take this six five by forty seven
Lapua ammo and put it in another rifle chamber chambered for that and shoot it
and work but it is tailored custom tailored for this rifle just another
cool aspect about what Snowy Mountain Rifles does for their customers
this rifle the Alpine Hunter retails for forty nine fifty this rifle right here
is going to going to cost a little bit more than that this is a premium rig
again lots of options to choose from check out snowy mountain rifles.com
give these guys a call their up in Montana cranking out great rifles every
single day alright we're gonna walk this thing out we're gonna start at 25 yards
I've bore sighted the rifle with a laser bore sighter and so we should be
close I'm gonna I want to get it just low at 25 and then we'll go shoot it at
100 and dial it in I got about a box and a half of ammunition left should be
plenty to have some left over and we'll plink it steal a little bit when we're
done so see how many rounds it takes
so I am that far to the left dead level where I need to be one of the things
that I want to make sure that I'm doing is saving this brass because this is
Lapua brass not cheap exactly what you would expect from a custom rifle maker
like snowy mountain rifles I'm just gonna take it right out to 100 and see
where we're at I needed to go up 1 inch it over an inch and a half I made the
adjustments let's see what we got
and that right there is a 1 MOA group a little bit under a little bit under an
MOA those last two shots are pretty much touching I'm gonna let this cool I'm
gonna make one more minuscule adjustment to the scope I'm gonna come up just a
little and over to the right just a little bit the 65 by 47 Lapua especially
in the Alpine Hunter very very little recoil with the proprietary snowy
mountain rifles muzzle break I'm getting no recoil I'm literally watching the
bullets hit the paper watching those holes appear on paper
awesome awesome deer rifle awesome antelope gun this thing would be this
thing would be a pleasure to hunt with I'm gonna crank my turret back down
I took the turret off the scope to make my adjustments for sight in but now let
it sight it in I have my dope all figured out I'm actually chronograph
these loads before we started and I got a three shot average of twenty six
hundred and ten feet per second with only a twelve foot per second standard
deviation so that's not bad at all so I'm pretty confident that we're gonna
be able to do some pretty cool stuff with this rifle here in a few minutes
there I got my dope card all made out with the Hornet II for DOF app I needed
my muzzle velocity to do that along with a few other things pretty easy to do
let's start at 300 not real far we'll walk it out as far as we can so it's
telling me up my come up is four point six three that should be good right
there let's send it
I'm gonna go to 400 7.62 come up there's seven we'll go that alright then this
thing is accurate Wow oh let's go for a thousand I'm going to
shoot the little square steel next to the Bison is anybody can hit the Bison
absolutely crushed it I'm gonna reload this magazine and we're gonna do it
again so Colonel Townsend Whelan said once
upon a time that the only rifles that are interesting are accurate rifles or
something to that effect basically that was what he was talking about and he was
commenting on the fact that accurate rifles are just fun they're fun to shoot
they're fun to play with they're fun to hunt with because they instill
confidence in what you're doing the Snowy Mountain Rifles Alpine Hunter is a
rifle of that ilk this bad boy is accurate
Wow this Wow guys if you're looking for a killer custom slash high-end
production rifle you need to look at the snowy mountain rifles Alpine hunter a
lot of variety of calibers and chamberings for you out there just
enough choices to make this thing pretty much full cuff along custom but it is a
premium level production rifle if you're looking for one gun to rule them all
this just might be it this is a very impressive rifle in less than a box of
shells I went from bore sighted to thousand yards steel strikes with a
pretty mount pretty decent amount of wind and not very nice conditions to
shoot in today it's sunny but it's cold that is flat-out impressive hey well we
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