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Thanks, I am very happy with the quality of the T3x CTR's. Very close in performance to a custom rifle.
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Some of my pictures are taken in County Kerry but we live in West Cork Ireland.
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The Kahles is equally good but somewhat larger and heavier. The 3-20 mag range is suited better to our type of hunting.  The 6.5-20×50 Conquest on my 22-250 also has exceptional glas and is my favourite for a lightweight rig which performs well day and under the lamp.
Was checking drops and plinking at rocks out to 500-600m yesterday with the CTR.

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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.

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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.

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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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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 Ray,
long time no hear. Hope things are good with you.
All fine with us, having a great deer season so far, less rain than usual.
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How much does it weigh (oz)?

Sorry for barging in…
I looked into our records.
emmagators stock, #TLT8 weighs 722 grams /  25.5 oz
The second swivel stud in the front and smaller barrel channel add
roughly an oz.
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Cold barrel shot. 425m off a silage bale. Think I dialed in around 7mph wind.
20″ 223 lite with ultra light carbon pse stock, Delta 6 baffle ultra light suppressor.
69gr custom match bullet. Can recomend 52 & 69gr custom match for varmint and deer.
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Very nice stock design!!  Would this incorporate the stock aluminum recoil lug or would it be supplied with a steel one?

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Our T3 hunting stock comes with opening to fit the original aluminum recoil lug or a steel aftermarket lug.
The E-tac will be made with a Remmy SA style inlet first and a T3 version will hopefully follow early next year.
Good point with the recoil lug, might be an idea to supply a steel lug with a stock that can be glued in while bedding.
Not too good having a fixed recoil lug in the stock before bedding.
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Hakan has good points and I for one don't see the sense in the thumbhole
stock, maybe because I hunt mostly and often swivel the rifle off the
shoulder to take a quick shot.

I believe the barrelled action starts moving the moment the bullet starts moving. This
means we should think of controlling where and how the barrel is moving and how
we can influence it. A rifle that has no muzzle flip will be nicer to shot…at running game
or prone long range. This leads to the story of centre of mass in relation to the line of the bore.
Another issue is the stiffness of the action stock connection, no use having a mighty
stiff stock if your rifle is just screwed onto and into some micro-balloon filled epoxy with no
structural connection to the shell and mass of the stock. The connection will alter the
harmonics or at least dampen somewhat. Better would be to have the inlet structured
ultra stiff and strong to relay the recoil directly into the shell of the stock without flex.

Another area we are working on is to increase the thermal conductivity of the inlet area
of the stock to help transfer heat away. This coupled with trying to blend a composite that
has similar thermal expansion as steel.

Stock shape: most factory stocks, especially plastic stocks are made to a price. A smaller
stock uses less material and can be possibly moulded on a smaller machine with lower
clamping force. Most factory stocks must be usable with open sights which means low
comb and mostly also low butt pad position.
I had great fun butchering around hunting stocks and finding a best compromise
hunting stock shape. A few of my shooting friends were involved. Firstly we raised the
comb so high, that a cleaning rod will just slide in. We made the pistol grip much longer
than average and curved, meaning hand forward off-hand the angle is flatter and
prone with the hand slightly further down the pistol grip it is steeper. The forend
we left square shaped, swing up a rifle fast and the hand on the forend feels
the horizon. Less chance of pulling up a rifle canted. Our T3 stock was shaped late
last year and has the butt pad positioned 10mm higher than our other stocks which
are fairly high anyway.
We are working on a tactical stock at the moment which will have an almost straight
pistol grip and a bit longer than most others. We added a “memory shape”, meaning
the front of the pistol grip and left/right will have a light triangular line running down.
These lines will give the shooter a reference of hand position, similar effect as the shape
of a tennis racket handle that tells the player “which position his racket head is at”.
I have built tactical stocks before that weighed around 800 grams and we hope to be able
to be under 850 grams with our new E-tac including adjustable cheek.
Generally I think once we have a very light weight strong and stiff stock, we can
add weights exactly where needed to improve the way our rifle shoots. In the end
we might have a rifle the same weight as with conventional methods, but it will
behave much better under recoil which will hopefully lead to better accuracy. 

pic of our E-tac prototype. Shape is somewhat altered in the mean time.

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I've been working on this subject for a while now. The way I see it, recoil runs down the line of the bore, therefore it would be ideal to have a rifle balanced around the barrel. Almost all standard rifles are bottom heavy and therefore the muzzle flips up upon recoil. Some more some less. Some rifles must be held very hard on the forend to achieve any half way decent grouping.
I therefore think first priority would be to make the rifle recoil correctly before reducing recoil. Ultra light weight carbon fibre stocks will automatically bring the centre of mass closer to the bore. Sit a slightly heavier scope on top and bring the recoil pad as high as one can…and voila one can have a rifle balanced over the bore with almost zero muzzle flip.
We had a few competition shooters come to us asking if we could make a heavy stock as they had a weight limit of x for their class. We suggested to add lead forward and aft as high as possible into an ultra light carbon stock that would normally weigh 23-25 oz. In one case we added roughly another 25oz weight but put the weight left/ right of the barrel channel and into the comb, as close as possible to the line of the bore. These rifles are now in Germany and Northern Ireland, they seem very happy with the recoil behaviour.

Roughly where we added the weight.

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Hi Julle, nice one.
we had discussed this on another forum a while back.
I took a guess that with suppressor it would be possibly (think it was) 20fps
faster. Got some stink back, on what facts I would base that presumtion.
Reason was that the baffles might act as a barrel and increase speed.
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Hi Jason,
brought back a Zeiss conquest 6.5-20×50 from the states last time I was over. These scopes are a very good
compromise between performance and weight. At 6.5 mag I've shot running deer with another rifle too and
low light performance is very good.
I had one box of Fiochi 55gr SP which grouped very well out of my 223, but supply ran dry.
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