My gun was fitted with the internal rear monopod that worked well in both large and fine adjustment, especially when coupled with a small soft bag under its foot. On grass, prone it was a joy to use, quick to set up and easy to dial with the non-shooting hand wedged under the butt. Up front was the Accushot Atlas V8 bipod, which had a degree of lateral give, along with the normal cant, allowing you to partially track a target or aim off in the wind with little resistance. The legs extended from 6-9 inches and could fold either backwards or forwards for storage - handy on a gun this compact - and locked positively into position.
Handloading in 308
The following week, I was able to start working up some handloads in the gun and a 308 is usually both forgiving and has a huge amount of bullet options
DESERT TACTICAL ARMS DTA REVIEW
and data available. The DTA proved no problem and although experimenting widely in search of velocity, it did not bear fruit with the short barrel, again no fault of the gun’s. Accuracy was good - a Lapua case, CCI BR primer and Viht N140 pushing a 155 gr Lapua Scenar was repetitively drilling 5 shots into the 0.4 MOA zone at 100 yards with 2740 fps with an ES of 12fps. Very acceptable in a mag-fed tactical rifle with no attention paid at all to bullet jump. The mag is a little more forgiving of COAL than an AI for example which has a realistic limit of 2.850 inches but I just
The still very compact 338 setup showing the compact yet effective brake. The DTA 1 piece scope mount was a little tight for my face.
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