300 wsm rebarrel of an FN SPR.

[FnSpr1akid]

I recently had the old girl rebarreled. Went to a Bartlein heavy varmint at 28". 1-9 twist. Alamo Precision Rifles fitted the barrel,cut the extractor groove and cleaned up the action. Hell I think theyeven painted the bolt..She has been abused and beaten over the years and needed some love. There was an issue with a barrel supplier that delayed delivery of my rifle. The shop went out of their way to find an amicable solution of giving me a discount on the more expensive barrel. The work on the barrel and action was very nice. I can see they squared my bolt face well and cleaned up the lugs.

I got bored and put the rattle can finish inspired by Razzle ship camo of WWI/WWII.

Broke the barrel in or at least 100 rounds towards it with ammo tuned for the old barrel today.
Between recovering from a back surgery and weather feeling like a jungle, 96 degrees and high humidity, the rifle did quite well.

208gr amaxs with 62.4 grs of Hybrid 100V in nosler brass. I did reseat them for this chamber. After 100 shots they were coming across the chrony around 2930-50fps.

Photo one was at 490 yards. Annoying to have an odd number.

The second photo is my dad's shooting at 490 yards again. Top group is 10 shots of 208s shot in odd increments ( just burning old ammo breaking her in) bottom two dots are four shots of old RL17 loaded 175smk. Only had four rounds of that some reason. He fired the middle shot then used it as his aiming point for the upper left group.

Last photo....A lot of 208s splattered on the steel. Like 15-20 without a paint. I might have pulled a few.

I can't wait to start actually load development now!

Edited because I didn't have the picture of the higher round count target.

 

[FnSpr1akid]

Another day of emptying old loads for the last barrel in odd quanitites. Empty all my range bags turned out a lot of missing ammo. Steels were 475-490 yards paper was 490 yards. 97 degrees and high humidity made for an awful day.