Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
revchuck38: ...”mo' ammo is mo' betta' unless you're swimming or on fire.”
Yeah, that was part of my thinking, EuroOptic out the door is $1599.00 plus $9.00 to ship. $2100.00 would pretty much also buy the second barrel.
At 8.9# bare, figure 11-13# in shooting configuration, it isn't a " run around the next two hills and get ahead of that Muley buck rifle, but it could do double duty as a training rifle and be used in one of my stands. Plus the savings in ammo. I can buy .308 Match ammo for .90 a pop, all day long, 6.5 PRC, probably not that pricing for another couple of years, if ever.
I already have a 6.5 PRC set up as a hunter, but my thought was the DD would make a really nice trainer, cause really, once you know your dope on drop, trigger control and reading the wind is the true long range skill development, at least for me.
However, @Clusterfrack had a great point, the Seekins Havak Bravo is an apparently awesome option, I'm just not sure it I need to spend two grand on just a rifle. Clusterfrack, is that what I see you shooting in your pics?
The plus side of the Bravo would be I could go 6.5 PRC, and have ammo commonality, BUT, that would also put me in the position of having to reload. Something I am embarrassed to admit, I have absolutely 0 experience with.
"And for a regular dude I’m maybe okay...but what I learned is if there’s a door, I’m going out it not in it"-Duke
"Just because a girl sleeps with her brother doesn't mean she's easy..."-Blues
@wvincent, I think a .308 or a 6.5CM makes a great training gun. You can learn to load fairly easily, especially if you stick with well known loads.
That’s an AI AE mk3 in .260 Rem that I posted most recently. I have a nice .308 but never use it.
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
So, @HeavyDuty, I'm wondering how close you have looked at your particular rifle? Reason being, I was at the LGS today picking up a rifle, and the owner offered me a deal on a Delta 5, actually cheaper than EuroOptic pricing. I went back to get hands on with the one he had left, and I noticed that at the end of the forearm, the right side seemed to be actually touching the barrel. Sure enough, I peeled off a twenty, and it would not slide past the tip of the forearm. After some manipulations of flexing the tip of the forearm, we were able to get the twenty to slide all the way up to the end of the barrel. My theory was that with this rifle being stored in a vertical position, it had been leaning on that side of the forearm for quite some time in the rack. This stock forearm seemed really flimsy, so much that I would have concerns about it touching if I stress loaded up with a bipod. Have you noticed the tip of your forearm being super flexy? I'm still not ruling the rifle out, I suspect I could do a traditional bedding or relieve the barrel channel in the stock to get clearance.
I was just wondering if this is the way they all are, or if the sample I had today was a one off.
"And for a regular dude I’m maybe okay...but what I learned is if there’s a door, I’m going out it not in it"-Duke
"Just because a girl sleeps with her brother doesn't mean she's easy..."-Blues
Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
revchuck38: ...”mo' ammo is mo' betta' unless you're swimming or on fire.”
"And for a regular dude I’m maybe okay...but what I learned is if there’s a door, I’m going out it not in it"-Duke
"Just because a girl sleeps with her brother doesn't mean she's easy..."-Blues