I see a nice Blaser Poster in the background... I hope the rifle your referring to for the Buck tag is an R-93 or K-95.
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The Rest of the Story - 6.8 Comes home
Well the wait is over -
The 6.8 came home today and I'm pleased to say the least!
Barrel is at 19", bottom metal and mags from 7.62x39 (feed well, may need a bit of tweeking), glass beded, iron sights are the Williams Fire Eyes (for my tired near vision eyes
, and nicely recrowned.It goes to the range tomorrow with several types of ammo to test. It may go to Montana on thursday for my prong horn hunt. I'll use my other rifle for the buck tag. May use this one for the additional doe after that.
I'll let you know how it shoots.
A couple more pics:
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I wondered if you would notice the Blaser calendar in the background. :lol:
Actually the 6.7x57R is in a Krieghoff Hubertus. I owned the K95, but it was very left handed shooter unfriendly with placement of extractor and shroud over the cartridge so I traded it for the Hubertus which now has 6.5x57R, .30-06 (came with rifle) and 9.3x74R barrels for it. Pretty good battery for most any hunting.
The R93 barrels also cover a wide range of left hand friendly calibers from .223 to 9.3x64 Br (and soon to have a 400 H&H when they become available) in my safe, just figured the first prong horn hunt had to be with a single shot rifle.
Also, forgot to add that I'd like to thank RealTeacher for his great technical advice on the 6.8 project rifle.
One thing I need to figure out is how to find a lower scope mounting system for this 6.8. The stock CZ rings are WAY too high for the rifle. Warne does list some med high rings, but every one that carries them that I've been able to locate have them back ordered or not available.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I wondered if you would notice the Blaser calendar in the background. :lol:
Actually the 6.7x57R is in a Krieghoff Hubertus. I owned the K95, but it was very left handed shooter unfriendly with placement of extractor and shroud over the cartridge so I traded it for the Hubertus which now has 6.5x57R, .30-06 (came with rifle) and 9.3x74R barrels for it. Pretty good battery for most any hunting.
The R93 barrels also cover a wide range of left hand friendly calibers from .223 to 9.3x64 Br (and soon to have a 400 H&H when they become available) in my safe, just figured the first prong horn hunt had to be with a single shot rifle.
Also, forgot to add that I'd like to thank RealTeacher for his great technical advice on the 6.8 project rifle.
One thing I need to figure out is how to find a lower scope mounting system for this 6.8. The stock CZ rings are WAY too high for the rifle. Warne does list some med high rings, but every one that carries them that I've been able to locate have them back ordered or not available.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Well i took it to the range today since I had to re-zero my R93 any how and had pretty good success.
It really liked the Silver State loads of the Barnes TSX & Triple Shock bullets.
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I fired 60 plus rounds through it today. Cleaning and cooling it all along.
These were the last 15 out of it. 10 TSX fired fairly quickly, barrel let cool, and then shooting 5 Triple shocks.
They both shot to same point when I did my part.
Found out one thing, I can't use any lower scope mounts as the bolt lift just clears the scope eye piece as it sits now. Just looks like the scope should be sitting lower to me. Guess I'll get used to it and as long as it shoots this well, I'll keep it for what it is.
The 200 yard targets were more than acceptable. I didn't keep one as it had too many holes in it from more than one rifle. Very acceptable, about 1 MOA group at 200.
A few feeding glitches that seem to be more of a break in problem than anything else as they got to be less of a problem as the afternoon progressed.
Nice utility rifle, in a great little caliber that should serve it's niche well.
WHAT NEXT???
It really liked the Silver State loads of the Barnes TSX & Triple Shock bullets.
I fired 60 plus rounds through it today. Cleaning and cooling it all along.
These were the last 15 out of it. 10 TSX fired fairly quickly, barrel let cool, and then shooting 5 Triple shocks.
They both shot to same point when I did my part.
Found out one thing, I can't use any lower scope mounts as the bolt lift just clears the scope eye piece as it sits now. Just looks like the scope should be sitting lower to me. Guess I'll get used to it and as long as it shoots this well, I'll keep it for what it is.
The 200 yard targets were more than acceptable. I didn't keep one as it had too many holes in it from more than one rifle. Very acceptable, about 1 MOA group at 200.
A few feeding glitches that seem to be more of a break in problem than anything else as they got to be less of a problem as the afternoon progressed.
Nice utility rifle, in a great little caliber that should serve it's niche well.
WHAT NEXT???
Never been much of a Barnes fan - German hard steel guns get so badly copper fouled with them it drives me crazy.
However, I have a buck and doe tag so the new 6.8 stuffed with the TSX bullets will come out after the buck tag is filled.
I'll report back next week when I return.
However, I have a buck and doe tag so the new 6.8 stuffed with the TSX bullets will come out after the buck tag is filled.
I'll report back next week when I return.
That is a nice rifleTim_W said:
Tim that sounds like a fun project let me know how it goes
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