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T3 E-Tac3
I recently got my T3 back from re-barrelling, was 25-06 stainless sporter now fitted with a shortened 3 groove lilja 1/13 F/TR barrel at 22″.
My son laid up an extremely light stock out of our new mould. She is all carbon fibre in monocoque structure with an internal carbon frame and pillars. Stock weighs 790 grams / just under 28oz, this includes bedding, steel recoil lug, flush cups, recoil pad, adjustable cheek and clamp screw.The bits to choose from, original mag system or alu bottom metal for original plastic mags or AI type mag bottom metal. 3 position safety that blocks firing pin from ASH. The little black lump between trigger and bolt handle is the raw single strand carbon wrapped bolt knob, thread is moulded not cut. Can't remember where the 20moa rail came from.
Hope to zero her tomorrow and get out after some Sika in the hills, our season is open till end of Feb.
For now I kept it simple, rifle without scope weighs in at 3.4 kg (7.5lb) with original bottom plastic and mag.
edi
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Very nice looking rifle you have there sir!
You say your son made the stock? Fit looks perfect from the pictures. -
DD, thanks
My son is better than I am at laying up a very light stock. Our process takes around 4hrs to lay up one stock and quite intensive.
Fit is very good as the mould is very precise left or right inlet. The stock in the pictures was full length free float bedded meaning no pressure or stress in the bedding area.
This evening I threw on a 6.5-20×50 Zeiss Conquest as it is 600 grams lighter than the Kahles and might be better for our hill hunting for now. I am still waiting on a 3-20×50 PMII Ultra Short which will be somewhere in between weight wise. I want this rifle to be capable of off-hand shots as well as prone.
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Hi pm11 is a great scope it used to be the top of the tree , I have a new minox zp5 and the glass is just as good as a pm11 and a a wider field of view I've compared them side by side and the zp5 is clearly better and for 2/3 of the price , might be worth a look, also great stock
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Larkin, since years I am of the opinion that the 5-25 is optically overrated, possibly the worst out of the PMII range. Some others that I looked through seemed fantastic and I was promised the 3-20 ultra short to test which I am really looking forward to use. At the moment I also own a Kahles K624i which I have hunted with since a few years, love that scope.
I had a look at the Minox range earlier this year at the IWA show and my friend received the top of the range scope from them. Optically they might be quite good but mechanically they don't seem quite at the races yet. I met one guy who is in the development with these scopes and know they are working at solving the last niggles. I'll check them again at the next IWA in March.
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Hi the kahles is an excellent scope , minox have all the mechanics sorted I have one of the first off the production line , it's all down to personal choice and whichever you choose will be a top scope, I'm glad there's somebody else on here that likes the scopes that I'm interested in , for hunting have you checked out the Ziess V8 , there's better scopes for targets all there mentioned in this post in fact , but better for hunting, but it's your money and as long as you are happy that's all that matters ????
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Finally managed to fire the first few shots today. The rain cleared for a little while but wind was still up. I tried 3 loads that I use in my other rifles. Between wind a horrible cold I couldn't get the crosshairs completely settled. At least the rifle is zeroed with my standard 168 a-max and wasn't too bad with 155's. The 155.5 Bergers seem promising. 100yd
The 168 a-max three shot. I can use these for hunting this weekend.
The 155 a-max three shot
5 shot 155.5 Berger, first shot went high. I recon the barrel needed to get used to the new bullet after the A-max. The following 4 shots were 11mm which is not too bad.
edi
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In the meantime I have dropped 4 deer between 130m – 380m with the rifle. The two Sika hinds were taken at 230m and 250m uphill. It can happen that take out a few deer if possible and the standard 3 cartridge mag is not what I like. All my other rifles have AI type mags.
I fitted/bedded the Mag System with about 0.1mm play so that it is “field strippable” feed from 5 shot or 10 shot 308 AICS mags is smooth and flawless. The 9 shot plastic mag also seems to feed well.
Another lovely product that I had lying around was finally fitted, the ASH (from Bavaria) 3 position safety which acts on the firing pin instead of the trigger. In Germany this seems a must have. I like it because of the slight increase overall in safety (no more going to fire position because the bolt gets whacked in rough terrain) and also to get a cartridge out of the chamber in the mid safe position. To the left as in the picture the bolt is locked and rifle is safe, mid= bolt can be moved rifle won't fire and lever to the right is the fire position. Andreas from ASH has a little video on his website how to install the safety however I think it is better if one has a little experience or let a rifle smith install.
Had an awful hectic day but found an hour (without rain) to pic up a rifle from a friend and managed to fire a few shots (to adjust scope) after mag conversion. Ended up only having 35minutes until I needed to collect my daughter from school so had to run, put up a target at 100yds. Pulse was too much at first but fired away. It took me all the left target to figure out that the non tilt 6-9 half extended bipod would push one leg in after every shot and rifle canted…. (I normally don't use that bipod) second target on the right I shot off a bag. last 3 shot group with the 155 a-max were not too bad with 6mm. The 5 shot group to the left was with 168 a-max that should actually group better but I was out of time.
edi
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