A QUARTER MOA AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO CLEAN IT?!? I WANT THE SAINT'S BARREL!
RESEARCH INTO WHO IS HOLDING WHAT RECORD WITH WHAT MAKE BARREL WOULD STRONGLY INDICATE LILJA.
WE JUST HAPPEN TO HAVE FIVE STAINLESS 1X8" LILJA BLANKS, THE SAME AS USED BY DEVGROUP FOR THEIR RECCE/RECON CARBINES (WHY DO YOU THINK THEY USED LILJA FOR THEIR LAST RUN?) SITTING DOWN AT COMPASS LAKE, WAITING FOR A GOOD HOME. WE CAN MAKE THEM INTO WHATEVER YOU WANT UNDER 25".
COMPASS LAKE ALSO MAKES GREAT BARRELS FOR US FROM KRIEGER AND DOUGLAS BLANKS. THE DOUGLAS TENDS TO SHOOT BETTER SOONER, WITH THE KRIEGERS ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING WELL LONGER. I FEEL THAT DOUGLAS IS THE MOST BANG FOR THE BUCK. SO DID CRANE, APPARENTLY, WHEN THEY SPEC'D DOUGLAS FOR THE SPR.
TARAN BUTLER RECENTLY WON THE 2004 USPCA 3-GUN LIMITED TITLE USING ONE OF OUR UPPERS (RATHER LIKE AN SPR ON A DIET) WITH A DOUGLAS BARREL.
WE'RE BUILDING AN ULTIMATE M4-BASED SNIPER RIG FOR A CONTRACT SHOOTER RIGHT NOW: 20" VARMIT CONTOUR FLUTED STAINLESS KRIEGER 1X7"; NIGHTFORCE 3.5-15X50 NXS, ETC. EVEN THOUGH THE BARREL IS A MASSIVE 1.00" UNDER THE HANDGUARDS AND 0.820" FORWARD, IT STILL ONLY WEIGHS 50.4 OUNCES. A SERVICE RIFLE MATCH BARREL WEIGHS 54 OUNCES, TYPICALLY.
JEFF COOPER ONCE MADE ONE OF HIS CLEVER ANALOGIES BETWEEN SUB-MOA RIFLES AND 150 MPH AUTOS. BOTH ARE APPEALING, BUT IT IS HARD TO APPLY THEIR POTENTIAL UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS. HIS WORDING WAS MUCH BETTER THAN THAN THAT, OF COURSE.
WES GRANT
M.S.T.N.
P.S. I WANT THE SAINT'S BARREL!