NesikaChad
Well-Known Member
Has anyone here heard of this little jewel?
I built a "Cross the course" NRA match rifle for a guy in 2001. I worked at the Anschutz National Service Center at the time. We had a small collection of Grunig and Elmiger FT300 CISM rifles in inventory. while snooping one day I stumbled across a test target shot in Switzerland by a guy from their national team.
A little swiss man named Sepp Gumunder dropped off that target and started me on a witch hunt.
This little cartridge started life in the US by the strangest of ways.
Sepp would pick once fired cases from the firing lanes in europe and mail them to me. Pacific tool and gauge made me the chamber and resize reamers.
I made my own dies from a piece of front sway bar off of a ford expedition. (Hey, I had it and it's good steel)
Tailor made around the 105-107 weight of bullet they spool up to about 850 meters/second. That's right about 2900fps.
the case is essentiall a mix between the 6mm BR and the 243 Win. a nice middle ground.
There was quite a bit of hype at one time, but then it sort of died off. I guess the 6mm XC creation from David Tubb kind of took over.
Just curious to know if anyone in this neck has fooled with it ever, and if you had any luck. I always seemed to be light on velocity and a bit high on pressure. Accuracy was always there, but the primers were always on the ragged edge.
Another gun I built was a 480 bolt faced AR-10 course gun.
Crazy thing. We put custom grips on it from Arnie Vitarbo (Same guy who fits alot of grips for the US pistol team shooters at the OTC in Colo Spgs)
I spent two days ventilating a piece of alloy tubing for the forend. All I had at this time was a WWII era Bridgeport with a dividing head.
that sucked, but it came out ok.
That gun shot well too. An 8X clean at 1000 at the Whittington Center in NM first time we took it out and got it zero'd.
Just curious if anyone's ever messed with it.
Nite folks.
Chad Dixon
Baghdad Embassy Security Force
I built a "Cross the course" NRA match rifle for a guy in 2001. I worked at the Anschutz National Service Center at the time. We had a small collection of Grunig and Elmiger FT300 CISM rifles in inventory. while snooping one day I stumbled across a test target shot in Switzerland by a guy from their national team.
A little swiss man named Sepp Gumunder dropped off that target and started me on a witch hunt.
This little cartridge started life in the US by the strangest of ways.
Sepp would pick once fired cases from the firing lanes in europe and mail them to me. Pacific tool and gauge made me the chamber and resize reamers.
I made my own dies from a piece of front sway bar off of a ford expedition. (Hey, I had it and it's good steel)
Tailor made around the 105-107 weight of bullet they spool up to about 850 meters/second. That's right about 2900fps.
the case is essentiall a mix between the 6mm BR and the 243 Win. a nice middle ground.
There was quite a bit of hype at one time, but then it sort of died off. I guess the 6mm XC creation from David Tubb kind of took over.
Just curious to know if anyone in this neck has fooled with it ever, and if you had any luck. I always seemed to be light on velocity and a bit high on pressure. Accuracy was always there, but the primers were always on the ragged edge.
Another gun I built was a 480 bolt faced AR-10 course gun.
Crazy thing. We put custom grips on it from Arnie Vitarbo (Same guy who fits alot of grips for the US pistol team shooters at the OTC in Colo Spgs)
I spent two days ventilating a piece of alloy tubing for the forend. All I had at this time was a WWII era Bridgeport with a dividing head.
that sucked, but it came out ok.
That gun shot well too. An 8X clean at 1000 at the Whittington Center in NM first time we took it out and got it zero'd.
Just curious if anyone's ever messed with it.
Nite folks.
Chad Dixon
Baghdad Embassy Security Force
