MINI PROJECT RIFLE: THE REMINGTON 700 SPS TACTICAL
element. Further CNC lathes may be used to cut threads with manual lathes to finish muzzle crowns etc. We also use special chamber reaming machinery with a multi-tool horizontal rotary capstan head for sequential reaming with floating reamer-holders and special cutting oil pumped from the muzzle end to clear all swarf and debris away from the bore and chamber. Our further processing includes polishing lathes and vapour blast cabinets as well as a CNC machining centre equipped for our deep-fluting option etc.
Although deemed a ‘tactical’ model with larger turrets and no protective caps, Laurie considers this a superb F Class riflescope and that’s the use this Sightron will see next year.
I am aware that many shooters and specialists have views about hammer forged barrels, usually based upon hearsay and incorrect information promoted by the manufacturers of cut and button rifled barrels.
After selecting and cutting to length our special bar stock, the barrels are faced-off and gun-drilled, reamed, CNC pre-turned and processed through the three-stage vertical honing stage prior to forging just to produce the barrel blank. Working off the bore centreline at both ends, we then turn a variety of profiles on our special purpose CNC lathes, where programmed hydraulic steadies are an essential
In addition to barrels, we also manufacture our own range of muzzle-brakes, Picatinny scope mounts and rings, bolt knobs etc.”
A very interesting story I’m sure you’ll agree. We wish Peter every success with his venture and look forward to working with him in the future.
Super Scope Whilst the Armalon barrel change was unplanned, I’d ordered one of Sightron’s new Series III 8-32X56 LRMOA scopes from UK importers Aim Field Sports months before, after looking through a ‘demo’ example at the British Shooting and Countryman Show at Newark in February.
LRMOA stands for Long Range Minute of Angle [reticle], a small central dot / fine crosshairs target type with the addition of stadia markings exactly 2-MOA apart at the full 32-power setting. The scope went to editor Vince Bottomley first for testing and review, as covered in his three-scope test in the last issue, before it reached me and the Remy. There’s no sense in describing it again, so will only reiterate that Vince was very impressed by its spec and performance and now that I’ve got my sticky paws on it, so am I. I’m so impressed I’ve decided this is far too good a piece of glass to grace a short-range quasi-tactical 223 that’ll get most use in testing handloads!
Burris 30mm Xtreme Tactical mounts for Picatinny (Mil-STD-1913) rails – an excellent buy found on eBay UK.
Come the start of the 2012 F Class season, it’ll be transferred to my long-range .308 Win Barnard tube gun for use in GB F/TR League rounds.
I still had to mount the 30mm bodied Sightron on the rifle of course and, as the old target Tasco it replaced had a one-inch body, I couldn’t snitch its Leupold QRW (Quick-Release Weaver) lever-rings. (I’d fitted a Warne
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