A Mini Project Rifle.
THE REMINGTON 700 SPS TACTICAL Part 3
length with only the boat-tail section sitting below the case-neck. With the .223’s light recoil, you can therefore have the same external ballistics as a .308W tactical rifle whose ammo uses full-house 155-175gn bullet loads, but with far less disturbance to the hold and aim.
Hammer Forged
I’ve only had a brief go with the rifle dressed up in its new stock, really just a function test – and I was impressed! The combination of Valkyrie Rifles’ Third Eye knob and SYSS’ MCS-T5 makes it feel like a completely different rifle, bolt-operation smoother and faster, trigger-operation improved and the whole feel and ergonomics of the rifle vastly different, vastly improved.
25 rounds loaded with 40gn Sierra BlitzKing plastic tipped bullets to a short 2.25 inches for the Hogue stock/Remy magazine, still fed through the AI magazine faultlessly and produced much less feed friction with 10 rounds in the mag. box than four or five did in the original set up. As you operate the bolt, you can hear and almost feel a slight ‘click’ as the next round down in the column rises and slots into the magazine’s raised and very pronounced feed lips that point the bullet nose straight at the chamber. The magazine is a really neat fit in its well in the ‘mini-chassis’ engaging positively as the release catch engages. The downside is that it doesn’t drop out cleanly under its own weight on operating the latch, but that may change after it has been slid in and out some scores of times in use.
The heavier and much more rigid stock somehow ‘feels’ quieter and more robust too when shot off a bi-pod even with the little .223 Rem cartridge and its
The matte black anodized Badger Ordnance ‘mini- chassis’ moulded into the MCS-T5 stock.
The new AI .223 Rem magazine holds 10 rounds in a single column and accepts cartridges loaded to around 2.55” COAL as with these Sierra 80gn MatchKing examples.
Looking good, the restocked / re-knobbed Remy SPS. A fluted Armalite Limited heavy barrel comes next...
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