Remington 700 5r
Regardless of what people with low end Remington’s say about their poor quality, their higher end guns (like the 5r, police, sendero, etc...) are excellent.
As of right now I think I've settled on my setup.
Bergara HMR in 308
Seekins 20MOA Scope Base
Harris 6-9 Swivel Bipod
Primary Arms 4-14 Rgrid FFP
Midwest Ind Muzzle Brake
I do reload so I plan on finding what weight bullet works best with the particular gun I get.
And yes I do plan on a different optic at some point. I have the Primary Arms laying around so I'm going to use it for now. Maybe I'll get a Vortex Viper when AA Optics has another sale.
Quick question about rings... The Primary Arms scopes objective is 44mm. Should I go with low or medium height rings. I'm going with the vortex matched ring set.
Let me guess, you'd start out with one of those awesome new Remingtons where only 60% of the lug contacts the raceway
I don't recall mentioning them in this thread.
What is your process for measuring bolt lug to raceway engagement? Having never seen it done I am curious and also of the correlation between lug-to-raceway contact and performance.
What is this about bolt lugs and raceways? Isn’t accuracy going to be more controled by locking lug engagement than anything to do with raceways? Am I missing something?
You can see the lug contact is the shiny part on the lugs. EXCELLENT lock up.
Don't see evidence of raceway contact in that pic, can you post an underside or side angle?
Oh, and for the guy talking about Remington bolt lugs having low contact, here's the locking lug contact on my 700p bolt.....buy a quality version instead of the bottom of the barrel sps. Below is my 700p locking lugs. These were not lapped. The gun is factory and unmodified. You can see the lug contact is the shiny part on the lugs. EXCELLENT lock up. Buy a quality version (700p, 5r, Sendero, etc...). They are not the same as an sps no matter how much everyone wants them to be.