Blaser R8 Field Evaluation

[Formidilosus]

This will be a long term field eval similar to-

MRC Eval

How’s Superlite

Browning X-Bolt 2



Blaser R8:






This one is in 6BR.


Assembled from the case, and broken back down into the case. Less than 1 minute to go from suitcase to functioning rifle- and less than one minute to go back to the suit case. Prior experience is that zero isn’t just close- it is absolutely spot on every single time.

Starting at the start:

The scope mount is a multi-piece affair. The top ring halves, the bottom rings halves, and the base. The bottom ring halves are held on by a relatively large screw. Taking the mount apart, the front ring base screw had some type of thread locker and was tight. The rear base however had no thread locker and was not very tight at all- closer to just snug.





Degreased everything and because it’s extremely important and metal on metal and easy to get to later, I used Loctite 380 on the base ring screws-





I also mounted the Revic 5-25x scope on it, as it will be a good fit and there is no point in beating up the owners Maven for now.



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[Snowwolfe]

Tag. In the process of acquiring R8 parts myself. So far have a Savana stock, left hand bolt, and mag bolt head. Plan is to acquire 300 Weatherby and 375 H&H barrels for a nice Alaska takedown outfit.

 

[khuber84]

Dammit it want an R8! This will be interesting to follow. The new Mauser M25 has my attention as well.

6br........gonna roll your own or shoot lapua ammo?

 

[Formidilosus]

Dammit it want an R8! This will be interesting to follow. The new Mauser M25 has my attention as well.

6br........gonna roll your own or shoot lapua ammo?

Reload.

 

[SloppyJ]

Ive spent way too much time looking at left handed models of these since class.

In for the writeup.

 

[Steve O]

Not a high volume shooter but have very few complaints with my R8s; looking forward to see what the experts say.

 

[PaulIV]

I wish I could find a 6br barrel for mine before you post the tiny groups

 

[JordanM]

Form who cut/chambered the BR barrel?

 

[Brontosaurus]

Form who cut/chambered the BR barrel?

Did some research and its a factory option

 

[JordanM]

Gotcha been eyeing them for over a year now and have the R8 ultimate. Never saw that in there haha.

 

[SloppyJ]

Gotcha been eyeing them for over a year now and have the R8 ultimate. Never saw that in there haha.

They're quite progressive on some of the chamberings and stick with classics for others. Its an interesting list to me.

 

[JohnJohnson]

I need this to go badly so I'm not too tempted.

 

[Lionheart]

In.

 

[MountainSide]

I've been using an R8 in one configuration or another for the past four years. Very interested to see where the testing goes. Thanks, Form!

 

[omicron1792]

@Formidilosus has talked highly of Blaser for a while. Will be nice to see his formal evaluation.

 

[RockAndSage]

@Formidilosus has talked highly of Blaser for a while. Will be nice to see his formal evaluation.

Definitely.