The separate head of the X7's bolt is like that of a Remington 700, but it’s attached like that of a Savage 110. The bolt handle is integral – a good feature.
50 yards to 500 yards or more. The scope sent me was equipped
with Premier’s CBR reticle (Custom Bal- listic Reticle) which closely resembles Swarovski’s BRH and BRX reticles. For a modest fee and 10 rounds of the car- tridge load the customer will be using, a reticle can be calibrated to the trajectory of that specifi c load out to 800 yards in 100-yard increments. As you can well imagine, this is
not an inexpensive scope; indeed, with an MSRP of over $1,600, it’s right up there with Nightforce, Leupold Mark 4, Swarovski, and Zeiss. I realize all too well that there are not going to be a lot of TVHM readers out there who would even
The two-position side safety blocks trigger movement. The Pro-Fire user-adjustable trigger can be set to as light as 2.5 pounds.
consider putting a 1,600-dollar scope on a 400-dollar rifl e, but hey, it gives me the opportunity to check out a top-drawer scope, and surely you won’t begrudge me that! To mount the big 3-15 I chose a set of Warne QD lever rings. With the Premier aboard, the range-ready rig weighed 11¼ lbs. For test ammo I managed to
scrounge up four loads spanning 15 grains of bullet weight: Federal’s 55-grain Sierra BlitzKing, Hornady’s Su- performance 50-grain V-Max, Reming- ton’s 50-grain V-Max, and Winchester’s Supreme 40-grain Ballistic Silvertip. All shooting was done from benchrest at 100 yards. Range conditions were quite
good – cloudy and no wind, but the temperature was 100 degrees, with a heat index of 107! Before leaving for the range I had
to adjust the trigger; as it came from the box it took a 4.5 lb. tug to get it to trip, so before doing any shooting I adjusted it down to 2¾ . At that setting it was much improved, but there was a noticeable amount of creep along with a slight hitch. Although I had every intention of shooting three fi ve-shot groups with every load, I ended up shooting only one box, plus a couple of rounds of another load that I used for zeroing-in. The reason I shot only four groups was that the very fi rst load I tried – Federal’s 55-grain BlitzKing – shot so well there was no need to shoot any more. The fi rst group I fi red measured
0.870", which included one called fl ier that was my fault and that I knew went low. Otherwise, the other four shots measured 0.720". That turned out to be the worst group of the four! The next cluster measured 0.625"; the next 0.410" – one ragged hole – while the fourth measured 0.510". Discounting the one called fl ier, that works out to an average group size of 0.565" for 19 shots. What more did I need to know about this out- of-the-box production rifl e shooting fac- tory ammo? Besides, I really wasn’t that enthusiastic to spend another couple of hours in a 107-degree heat index. The verdict? What can I say when
The Premier Heritage Hunter rifl e scope has its focus/parallax adjustment on the turret, which is much more convenient than having to rotate the objective bell.
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a rifle that goes for a street price of around 350 bucks shoots ½ MOA with factory ammo? Like … it’s a good deal? Well, yeah. Check out the Marlin Web site at:
www.marlinfi
rearms.com.
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