The SRS bolt under the AIAW’s. The grooves in the AIAW’s bolt are there to prevent it freezing up in sub-zero conditions hence the designation ‘Arctic Warfare (AW)


resolve some key engineering issues – mainly the bolt mechanism and how to design and deep-drill the receiver in one piece. The result is a work of art that, they claim, will shoot 1/4MOA out of the box.


So when I received an invitation to spend a day shooting one of the first privately-owned specimens in the UK I was not going to quibble. I made my way up to Scotland, where the owner lives, before he changed his mind. I took up a couple of legendary .308s to benchmark the SRS against – my custom-built, blueprinted Remy 700 (crafted by Dave Wylde at Valkyrie


A close-up of the bolt-head…


rifles) and a .308 AIAW. To my mind, these rifles are the ‘gold standards’ for civilian and military .308s respectively and I know both can consistently print inside a two-pence piece at 100 yards.


I arrived in Invernesshire just in time to (a) miss the warmest May on record, (b) enjoy the first of the year’s midge crop and (c) encounter gusty lateral winds and penetrating oily drizzle. The shooting point was in a sheltered spot, out of the wind – which meant I was midge food for two long hours. Not ideal.


…and the chamber


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Target Shooter


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