Bergara bmp

[C Ward]

Chronograph is not an absolute necessity you can accomplish the same thing by shooting at distance and back feeding the data in to a ballistic calculator. A chrono is nice though.

The groups may change after the barrel gets some rounds through it but usually not much for a load that is shooting well to start with .

I've got an old school Ohler and depending on schedule can meet out at CRC on the weekends.

[ChickNorris]

That would be great. Thank you.

Pm sent.

[C Ward]

Sorry I missed all your earlier messages, I'm working on answers for you .

[Irving]

Delayed responses are standard in any long distance relationship.

[ChickNorris]

Hehehe

[ChickNorris]

There is quite the selection of rings... Spuhr, Hawkins, Badger, Warne et al. Going to revisit this entire section for a thread... I'm favoring the Hawkins & they seem popular.

[ChickNorris]

Might go to MHSA, make introduction & try\buy stuff.

There is much periphery I haven't even considered yet. Be nice to have more context.

[C Ward]

Hawkins rings are gtg

[Hoser]

Hawkins rings are gtg

For sure go with Andys rings.

[ChickNorris]

Thought I'd update this thread for anyone who might be looking at getting into precision rifle or @ the bergara line: I've enjoyed precision rifle so much I ended up shooting out the bergara barrel last year & had the action rebarrelled with a medium palma Bartlein @ Black Canyon Customs. Had it chambered for factory ammo once again in lieu of reloading (maybe next time). Made a few factory chassis modifications which included adding a RRS dovetail & ditched the picrail. Love my Burris XTRIII but I'm upgrading to the new XTRPro now that I had a chance to look through it last week. Also using the Tbac ultra 7 & their bipod. When my new XLR chassis arrives I'll move the centerfire over to that & run this one as a dedicated chassis for my Bergara .22 barreled action.

Even before all the upgrades, the Bergara factory rifle (along with training from Brian Whalen @ Colorado Precision Rifle) got me in the top ten more than once in various regional matches competing with some of the best shooters around & I've been very happy with it overall. Next year I suspect I'll be building something specific for ELR but until then this will do for all the precision games I like to play.

Wish I could tell Chuck (C Ward) one more time how much I appreciate his friendship (which started because of this thread), all of the advice he gave me personally & thank him again for the wealth of information he left here in the forum for everyone. Hes been gone almost a year now & I miss that dude a lot.