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20series wrote:Assuming its not raining and the temp is over 18'C I assume......

Good point however as it is my rifle she would not give a toss about it being left in the rain. There is of course always the question would she even turn up if it was raining...

ovenpaa wrote:

20series wrote:Assuming its not raining and the temp is over 18'C I assume......

Good point however as it is my rifle she would not give a toss about it being left in the rain. There is of course always the question would she even turn up if it was raining...

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It's strange how people think a less accurate rifle is more exciting.

The bloke who's AI AW.308 I've shot, said "it makes it too easy." The irony is and assuming you've already honed your load development, you can't make a less accurate rifle shoot more accurately simply by trying harder. Although I guess sometimes it might produce better results just through random inaccuracies. I was blown away by the AI and the accuracy was so good, it illustrated I wasn't the weakest link, when in fact it was the rifle/ammo combo.

I can't wait to get one.

ovenpaa wrote:The Viking always refers to AI's as 'Boring rifles' Mostly a reference to accuracy and as such she shot mine a couple of times before walking away however her interest has been aroused again now it is chambered in 6,5x47 and she has even threatened to give it a try one day....

A less accurate rifle is not exciting. Any AI chambered in 7,62x51 should be accurate and quite capable of working with any milsurp that will chamber. Move to the Lapua HPS or home loaded 170 Lockbase and you will see a step change. Great stuff for accuracy nuts however using such a rifle at 600 yards is never going to be particularly challenging, try pushing them to 1200 yards and things change dramatically and this makes shooting them a lot more fun.

My favourite discipline with my AI is shooting McQueen type Huns Heads at 600 yards, something the AI's work very well with. In my case instead of a castle with predictable apertures I prefer to shoot the Huns Head as it peeps out of the grass, 3-5 second exposures, 5-10 seconds between across a 20m bank and 30 shots to be fired just to keep the concentration up.

A mandatory position change at some stage is fun as well.

I agree, I was just turning the the Viking's comment on it's head. If an accurate rifle is boring, then presumably a less accurate rifle is more interesting... As I mentioned, I've heard similar comments before, it just sounded a little strange to me when I sat down and thought about it.

Sounds like fun, I'm looking forward to pushing mine when I get it and hopefully in .260 it should be OK out to 1200. Considering I've never shot beyond 100 yards, that sounds like a good day out to me!

Christel shoots a 22 CHRISTEL which is undoubtedly one of the most accurate rifles I have ever shot, downside is as far as she is concerned all other cartridges are poor alternatives to the real thing.

I have no idea what that is, but it sounds interesting...

As a slight aside there is a AI AX in 260rem for sale on AIRGUNBBS.
£3800.
Nothing to do with me -I don't know the seller from Adam!

Tony

I think i've shown this before but anyway here goes.

AI AT 308
26" lw barrel & threaded AI brake
folding stock
Nightforce ATACR sat on a spuhr isms.



I absolutely love it, although I may well be trading up to the AXMC (purely for the long action)

alijnclarke wrote:I think i've shown this before but anyway here goes.

What a beautiful door! [not my intention to diminish the object in front of it!]