To be fair, the actual RIFLE part was a Savage 110 in 300 Win Mag using the StraightJacket Barrel System. But the stock was made out of a chunk of wood and duct tape, with what looks like a Bushnell scope topping it off. Needless to say, if these guys can make a 1,000 yard shot using a stock that was made in about five minutes tops, then your complaints about your existing stock being “inaccurate” may be irrelevant.

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  2. Most off the shelf firearms, even those made on the cheap, are more accurate than most shooters can use. It’s a mature product and industry.

  3. Blind hog finds the acorn every once in awhile. I have seen a lot of makeshift stocks at various events. Some good some bad. He also is not free floating the barrel which is most of the time a no no for accuracy, but refer to my earlier statement.

  5. I should show this to the guys at my range that cant hit the 100yd target with their AR that has $1000 worth of stuff on it, that ought to brighten their mood.

      • accomplishes the fact that people depend on material items and “stuff” instead of actual skill to make a 1000 meter shot. this pretty much debunks the myth that you have to have an “accurate”stock…it comes down to ,you either have the know how to shot a firearm or you don’t…no more excuses!

  6. I am a big fan of the StraitJacket. It takes an accurate barrel and keeps it that way–shot after shot. And as I understand it, there is no issue with “barrel harmonics” that require free floating as ann incident to the excellent heat dissipation characteristics of the StraitJacket. Well worth the money for a target shooter. I am also a Savage fan–great MOA accuracy right out of the box for less than a grand, even less that $500.

    I think you TTAG guys should get a StraitJacket and test it out. The only article I’ve seen about it is an old one–with an update—on Guns America

    • The only thing keeping me from the StraitJacket is that it is too thick. I like using telescopic (reflex) suppressors, that StraitJacket is as thick as the suppressor itself. They should make a medium version.

  7. Probably done by marksmen who could hit the same target with a ruger 10 22….

    Wish i had the time money and patience to be a good marksman, but will have to content myself with the 100 yard range

  8. As long as they didn’t make that stock with a laser printer. That would be FROWNED UPON in this ESTABLISHMENT!

  10. Folks been doing this long range stuff for quite a while. Billy Dixon at The Battle of Adobe Walls is worth checking out….140 years ago…

    • I’ve read about that. Kinda proves there is truth behind the sentiment about it being the man behind the gun rather than the gun itself, no?

      • My understanding is that Dixon shot the man while the man was sitting still on a horse and sky lined. Still, an impressive shot. Dixon was a young man and intimately familiar with his rifle as he was a professional bison hunter.

        I can’t swear to this,but my understanding is that the first people to reload self contained cartridges were bison hunters. They shot more in a day than most people did in a year. The cost of shipping ammo from the eastern factories made it expensive.

    • Sometimes I feel like that Dustin Hoffman character in Little Big Man, remembering stuff the youngins ain’t familiar with. So I realized that there are bunch of folks out there that don’t even know what a blackpowder rifle is or will do. Or even know of historic folks like Dixon and the Indian wars of the 19th century. Here are couple of links I thought would be helpful to those new to the gun world….

      Summary of the Adobe Walls fight, Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon and the 1500 yard shot !
      http://www.levergun.com/articles/bdixon.htm

      Here is a quick report of some tests done out beyond 3,000 YARDS with the old timey guns !
      http://powderburns.tripod.com/sharps.html

  11. This was neat to see. I just can’t seem get excited about stocks when it comes to the slow target shooting I do. Maybe if you where firing rapid strings it would matter.

    -D

  16. absolutely correct, nick.

    lots of “we do it this way, because thats always the way it has been done.”

  18. I’ll file this into the weird yet very impressive category. The Savage 110 300 Mag and the Busnhell 3-21 FFP scope are definitely capable of excellent accuracy, and I have a feeling that the ammo is good stuff as well. That also looks like a thorough and precise duct taping job. Mythbusters successfully made a boat out of duct tape just to see if it was possible. It was.

    I’ll still consider a quality stock / bedding / free float job to be one of the major factors that drops groups from 1.5 MOA to sub 1 MOA.

    And I’ll put some more duct tape on the list, for the same reasons as Clint Eastwood’s sage advice in Gran Turino.

  19. I need 1,000 people with their personal toys like this guy, and a nice place to have a talk- westhmpsn channel on youtube- A serious person in this video, with a nice toy- I wonder if he’s a Constitutionalist?

    • OK, so your first sentence makes no sense. You really need to think a little harder before pressing enter.

      Second, “westhmpsn channel on youtube”
      Um… guys, check this out. This dude is scary… http://www.youtube.com/user/westhmpsn/videos

      William Burke, I officially retract every single aspersion I’ve ever cast at your conspiracy theories. I still think you’re wrong, but compared to this dude, you’re just a babe in the woods.

      [Backs slowly away, making no sudden gestures.]

  21. For a great deal on precision rifle stocks, go to Lumber Liquidators!

    It just doesn’t sound right, does it?

  22. I was more impressed with the “bipod” than the stock. x No sound at work, so I don’t know the reason why he did this.

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