I went ahead and bought this rifle out of curiosity. Its a 6.5x284Norma and was one of the founders rifles. It is a 26" Lilja 9 twist fluted on a SMR model 350 with detatchable mag, timney trigger, proprietary break bedded to a Remington SPS stock with all metal cerecoate in green. I asked why the crappy stock and was told the intensions were to upgrade it, but it shot so well he left it. It was a proto-type not for sale through the company. Anyway - first loads were attempted with IMR 4831 and Hornady 123gr A-Max. 5 loads of 5 rounds each changeing only charge weight in 1/2 grain increments from Nosler brass with Fedral 210 match primers. All loads shot well under 1" and the 2 highest charge weights offered one round hole .490 inches in diameter! That's .226". So I produced several rounds with 52.5 grains of powder still useing virgin brass, and on a calm morning last week produced 2 more 5 shot holes no bigger than .63 across... at 200 yards. I gathered there was a falling out between this guy and the other two that started the company, but this rifle is incredible.
Posts: 849 | Location: MN | Registered: 11 March 2009
