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    I just checked out the Vortex website...looks like they have a new scope called Razor HD LH. Simple design, capped turrets, no parallax adjustment, and extreme light weight. They offer a 2-10, and 3-15 weighing in at 15.4 and 16.5 respectively. I would go for the 2-10 for engagements inside 600 yards. I assume its second focal plane so you will need to be on max magnification for the BDC to work. The cool thing is the BDC is actually MOA hash marks with 2 MOA spacing. Zero the rifle at 200 yards, then make a drop chart out to 600 and use 10X for anything past 200.

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    First shot drilled him.

    You're right, the first shot did him in. Once we got over to him we realized the downward angle of the first two shots put the exit wounds through the top of the lungs. Obviously the third shot was not needed, but the adrenaline was pumping. It all happened so fast and we had a small window to shoot through. A few steps one way or the other, and we would have lost sight of him. I didn't really feel like tracking a wounded bull, so I had Steve shoot until the bull went down.

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    Here is a video of my friend Steve's late bull hunt. We spotted 5 bulls together from a distance of 1120 yards. They we feeding fast, so we decided to make a move on them. We quickly closed the gap to 400 yards. We topped the ridge and noticed a very small window of opportunity to take a shot, so we rushed to get set up. While out of breath and shooting off a wobbly rest made of 3 packs stacked on top of each other, Steve got it done.

     

     

     

     

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    Have him shoot his rifle at the distance he ranged the deer and took the shot. Just to confirm. I missed an elk at 200 yards. The weekend before the hunt I was shooting steel at 1,000 yards and forgot to turn my turret back down. The elk hunched up and looked hit, but then took off. I went to where he was standing, but no blood. I was super bummed thinking I had just hit a bull that I couldn't recover. Later that day I realized my problem when I shot at 200 yards. Turns out I shot over him. I was relieved, and pissed.

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    Cerekote is a good durable finish. I would only do the bolt body though. Tape off the lugs (and bolt face of course). I had mine done with cerekote H series, lugs included, and the added material made the tolerance between the bolt and the action way too tight. It was not smooth. I ended up sand blasting it off.

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    Tom Beckstrand wrote an article in 2013's edition of Sniper Magazine about the Accuracy International PSR rifle. He touched on fluting a bit. Here is an exerpt from the article:

     

    One design change that resulted from AI’s exhaustive accuracy testing and development of the PSR [Precision Sniper Rifle] is the removal of flutes from the barrels. Engineers at AI decided to isolate the barrel flutes to see what impact they had on accuracy. The engineers attached a laser to the rifle’s receiver, another to the barrel, and a third to the scope. All three dots were zeroed at the same point, then they started shooting the rifle. They discovered that, no matter which fluted barrel they used, the dots would diverge as the barrel heated. The dots from the devices mounted to the scope and the receiver would stay in place, but the barrel’s device would manifest a point-of-impact (POI) shift. The POI shift from the warming barrel greatly diminished when they used barrels without flutes.

    Engineers determined that the flutes never heated evenly, causing the POI shift. I hope the results of this test gain wide circulation through the sniper and long-range shooting communities to help eliminate some of the ignorance that surrounds the perceived advantages of barrel flutes. Flutes are great for shaving weight, but this is the first test I’ve heard that provided empirical data detailing what happens when the barrel is fluted. This should be the death of the “they cool a barrel faster, so they’re more accurate” argument, listed among flutes’ virtues. Our goal is and should always be to mitigate the effects of heat; fluting exacerbates it."

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