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sikahunter:
Glad to hear you have hooked up with Kirby. He'll do you right. I don't know the exact round count without doing some checking and reading of notes but I do know I've got about 100 rounds or a little more through it. I only used 2 rounds hunting. One for my deer and one for my elk. Haven't looked with a borescope but it's still new. It broke in fast and cleans like a dream.
I only have Kirby's and my estimates of what accuracy and barrel life will be but since this is a hunting rifle and not a bench rifle I would think that somewhere between 1000 and 1500 rounds and it'll probably need a new barrel. I'll just play it by ear and when the time comes, I won't hesitate to put another 7mm AM barrel on it. I built it to shoot and plan on going through several barrels.
The Nesika action actually comes with the action only, no bottom metal. You can use a Rem 700 ADL or BDL bottom end but I went with the HS bottom metal and DBM just based on personal preference.
I have it zeroed at 300 yards. I do that because the point blank range of this setting gives me the advantage of taking a quick shot if I don't have time to range etc. from the muzzle out to 350+ yards and not worry.
I received the gun in the middle of our week long deer season. I took half a day to do a break in and get it sighted in at 300. I'm still shooting fire form loads because the original J4 jacketed Wildcats can't handle the velocity this round can produce. I have some of the new heavy tapered jacket 200's coming and they will handle anything I can dish out.
I haven't even had the time to do all of the drop tests I usually do but I have put it in all of my computer programs and used that data in some shooting on moa sized rocks out to 1440 yards and the data I am using gives me first round hits.
As soon as I get the new bullets I will do drop test to 1000 yards and recheck all data and then she'll be ready to run.
At the velocity I running now with the fire form loads, and sighted in at 300 yards, it takes me 17.75 moa to be dead on at 1000 yards. The software predicts that the full power loads will take about 15 moa to get me on at 1000 with a 300 yard zero. Again remember I haven't done all of the drop tests etc. so a lot of this is conjecture on my part but the data I have is good and I know what the bullets will do so I fully expect the full power loads to be very close to what I listed above.
Kirby has used the data that I developed for my gun to get his new 7mm AM up and ready in time for his Canadian hunt and the data was right on for him as well.
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Dick
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