and a drop of Guntite on the screws, and the screws were tightened. Next, a level (BKL Technology) was chosen for this rifle. I bore sighted it and now was ready to go. I really like the level on a gun when properly mounted where you can see it. It stops the left and right misses you may experience at longer distances. Plus, too many scopes I’ve seen are put on canted (crooked looking). AT THE RANGE
My friend Tracy Randall and I decided to go shooting this Shaw rifle in 22-250 A.I. Tracy, a devoted Remington collector, brought his 700 in 223. This was one fine shooter, I found. Well, we finally got under way. We had a slight right to left wind of 5-15 mph, 79 de- grees out. One shot at a time with the E.R. Shaw rifle and then it was cleaned. I wanted this barrel broken in the right way. After the first 10 shots we went to five shots and clean it, for 20 shots then five shots to see how it would do in a scenario of five fast shots at critters. Then clean it again with 50 BMZ Copper Killer by Montana Extreme Solvent. We put 50 loads in all through this gun. Both of us knew from the “get go” that it was a shooter. Tracy fell in love
with my Savage 111F 22-250 Ackley Improved as well. The brass I used was new Remington brass with Federal 210M primers, trimmed to 1.902", with the flash holes and primer pockets uni- formed. I neck sized with a Hornady neck sizing die. Sometimes not every case blows out to the same lengths as others do. By using a Lee Factory Crimp Die, they have become more consistent in length. Most of the OAL measure- ments were as much as 150 thousandths longer than SAMMI specs. Yes, it has a long throat, but this length changed with each brand of bul- let used. I want the bullet well seated in the rifling so as not to create insipient head separation like a factory load can. Using the lowest powder charge of AA2460 (32.4 grains) produced no problems with pressure or any crater- ing of the primers. I even measured the ogive length for every bullet used, as I wanted consistency in each case. Once we finished shooting we loaded everything into Tracy’s truck and headed back to my place. On the way we agreed that we believed this Shaw rifle was a shooter. The Savage Edge was going bye-bye. We tried fac-
tory loads and handloads in the Edge. We talked about how Tracy’s Reming- ton 700 shot the reloads he made and about his hair trigger on it.
After arriving at my place, we
unloaded everything and Tracy headed for home. Since that day Tracy is sold on the E.R. Shaw rifle and is quite adamant that he, too, is going to get a Shaw rifle. When Tracy got on the Web and went to E.R. Shaw’s site, he found out the wait was longer than ten months at that time. It had become an 18-20 month wait. You can get your gun rebarreled in three to five months but a custom Shaw that’s made special order will take time. They are not mass produced – they are built one by one on a Savage long or short action. The lugs are lapped, the action is trued, the customer decides whether to include a barrel nut or not, and a 22-250 recoil lug. Plus, you have your choice of stock, which they offer. They do several types of fluting in straight and swirl. So many options … they are almost endless. You can own one if you choose. It’s up to you whether you get the bug! Believe me, it’s catchy.
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