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13 years 11 months ago - 13 years 11 months ago #6419 by txlongshotb4
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Well the holidays are far behind us now and I've finally had time to get the finished paint job on my rifle. Here she is, in all of her glory, painted up and sporting the suppressor/night vision kit out in the woods behind my house.

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Range work has been hard to come by, but as far as factory loads go it seems to like Federal 168 Match and Black Hills of the same weight. The groups sizes improve with the can on it,( so far about 1/2 MOA) and I am extremely pleased with the Gem Tech's ability to both repeat P.O.I. and the noise reduction. I took a HUGE leap of faith with Lapua Ammo, and shot some of their 200 Grn. Subsonic through the can. I am happy to report that it stabilized fine, and inside of 100 meters the grouping isn't terrible. (about 3 MOA.) I was also impressed with the terminal ballistics of the round. While the performance is nowhere near that of supersonic loads, I would certainly not want to be on the receiving end of one.
When I can get some free time to get to the range, I plan to investigate some more and find a good base factory round from which to begin the load-tweaking process on my reloading bench. I have hopes that with some good hand loaded precision ammo, I can get the groups down even tighter...but for now, I have an appointment this weekend with the woods-I plan to go out, re-zero with some 180 Grn. Grand Slams, and give some of the local feral bovine hooligans a case of the what-for...here's hoping there will be more pictures come Monday...

Hope ll is well for everyone, and that your new year is a great year!
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13 years 11 months ago #6421 by JustMe
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Real nice!! Need any help getting rid of some hogs?

Jer

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13 years 10 months ago #6426 by Edge
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Looks great! Nice job!

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13 years 6 months ago #7622 by edritchey
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Awesome job, I'm gona have to get me one of those camoed up rifles for my collection.

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13 years 6 months ago #7636 by Akai
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Maybe I'm a little late on this one, but who made the can and did the finish on your awesome rifle. Good to hear that the can didn't affect the accuracy as that has been my concern. Just finished a muzzle brake that looks similar to the one on the Barret .50 cal and it worked great(for those that need that look) personaly too loud for me and I like a little kick and would like to stick with a can. Kind of new to finishes and just had the wife's Springfeild NM 9mm done in pink once again personal preferance, would like to start doing my own finishes on guns have anodizing capabilities, so any help on the camo finish would be appericiated.AKAI

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13 years 6 months ago #7649 by txlongshotb4
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The can is a Gem Tech HVT quick detach model. I painted the rifle myself. I used Aluma Hyde II, which is an epoxy based spray on finish that works just like spray paint. It's a tough finish that is very resistant to solvents and cleaners, and it is available from the Brownell's website. I used a combination of dark earth and coyote brown as a base coat. I did a few top coats with regular krylon spraypaint after the Aluma Hyde dried, using a piece of military cammo net as a stencil.

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