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Its a carbon sleeve tensioned up over the thin barrel to hold it rigid.

Decided to lighten this varmint rig up considerably by ditching the Laminate stock and fitting it up in my custom chassis. Thinned the barrel down a bit and carbon sleeved it.
It has a much better...

Had the .17 out running hot last night on the rabbits and hares.. total carnage. It hits so hard even at extended ranges.

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Decided to cut it back to 20" and picked up a .17 suppressor baffle kit from DPT today for it. Feels a lot more balanced and only lost 85fps from cutting 4.5" off.

Yip quite the pop.. it was a shoulder shot which evacuated the chest cavity of organs and then somehow vacuumed out the contents below the diaphragm too!? Thats some serious hydrostatic shock from a...

Finally tested it on a soft target tonight.
A hare at about 85m with the 20gr V-Max

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Oh now you tell me! :pacman:

Well I sat down to load 100 rounds and at about 20 rounds I was well over it. Im just not set up to load for this tiny mouth cartridge.
First of all the cartridge over all lengths were all over the...

I got into a bit of 100 yard paper work this afternoon, Im still not really set up to load for .17 cal so I need a few more tools to get all my new Lapua brass cut to length etc but I ran some fresh...

Umm yes a typo.. it was meant to say 20gr V-Max @ 4200 not 25gr as per the first paragraph :thumbsup:

This afternoon I started working up some test loads for a ladder test with both 20gr V-Max and 25gr Molly coated Berger hollow points.

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I started a grain below book max loads with ADI...

Well I managed to free up some workshop time yesterday evening and fitted up the .17 barrel to the CZ 527 action.

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The barrel is 24" long and stainless steel with a bore that...

Oooo thats nice... the more photos on this thread the better!

What are your thoughts on barrel length? The one Barrel I have is currently 24" long but I will cut to optimal I think

Sorry I have written that info around the wrong way... it is the .17 Mach IV that is longer than the .17 fireball not the other way around. The bolt on a Remington fireball will not close in a mach...

Yes this was my first concern too and I found a few old posts on other forums that had mentioned problems feeding from a CZ 527 too.

So...I loaded 5 dummy rounds to test the .223 mag feeding into...

Belmont Ammunition are the Lapua agents but im not sure if they have current stock. Sportways often hold a bit of Lapua brass too for a slightly inflated cost. I Think they have some norma .221 FB...

Right time for another one..
This time a little fast mover for the CZ 527 switch barrel.
This is another great condition but used S/S 1-9" twist barrel that also came with some Redding dies, 150...