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<blockquote data-quote="Weatherby Fan" data-source="post: 1557577" data-attributes="member: 29953"><p>Ive wanted to build a rifle with a HawkHill barrel for a while now and the opportunity arose to pick up a 26"(FL) #3 Contour 1-8 twist 6.5mm barrel from a gentleman on LRH so I just needed a donor rifle,</p><p></p><p>I found a cheap used Sako A7 7mm Rem Mag with 2 clips and two sets of 30mm Talleys,</p><p></p><p>So off to the Gunsmith for a massage, true&square the action, lighten the trigger to 2.5lbs, chamber and bead blast to match the action, so basically just a rebarrel job !</p><p></p><p>Mount up my fav scope a Zeiss V4 4-16x44 Z-Plex and off to range, I just shot Hornady Precision Hunter 143gr ELD-X ammo today and all in all it shot pretty good, the 100 yard target was the first three shot group after 2 shots to zero and a good cleaning, </p><p></p><p>I wasn't totally impressed with the group at 100 so I moved out to 300 yards and it was a little better, one thing I was surprised at the consistency of the velocity out of the Hornady ammo, I think Ill keep it !</p><p></p><p>Im sure with some handholds I should be able to do a little better,</p><p></p><p><a href="https://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5899_zpst9ttngjb.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5899_zpst9ttngjb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5896_zpswajpymc9.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5896_zpswajpymc9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="https://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5921_zpsh07ddwua.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5921_zpsh07ddwua.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5920_zpsabo8nttr.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5920_zpsabo8nttr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weatherby Fan, post: 1557577, member: 29953"] Ive wanted to build a rifle with a HawkHill barrel for a while now and the opportunity arose to pick up a 26"(FL) #3 Contour 1-8 twist 6.5mm barrel from a gentleman on LRH so I just needed a donor rifle, I found a cheap used Sako A7 7mm Rem Mag with 2 clips and two sets of 30mm Talleys, So off to the Gunsmith for a massage, true&square the action, lighten the trigger to 2.5lbs, chamber and bead blast to match the action, so basically just a rebarrel job ! Mount up my fav scope a Zeiss V4 4-16x44 Z-Plex and off to range, I just shot Hornady Precision Hunter 143gr ELD-X ammo today and all in all it shot pretty good, the 100 yard target was the first three shot group after 2 shots to zero and a good cleaning, I wasn't totally impressed with the group at 100 so I moved out to 300 yards and it was a little better, one thing I was surprised at the consistency of the velocity out of the Hornady ammo, I think Ill keep it ! Im sure with some handholds I should be able to do a little better, [URL='https://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5899_zpst9ttngjb.jpg.html'][IMG]https://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5899_zpst9ttngjb.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5896_zpswajpymc9.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5896_zpswajpymc9.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5921_zpsh07ddwua.jpg.html'][IMG]https://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5921_zpsh07ddwua.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://s1087.photobucket.com/user/WeatherbyFan65/media/IMG_5920_zpsabo8nttr.jpg.html'][IMG]http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j466/WeatherbyFan65/IMG_5920_zpsabo8nttr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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