Patriot Valley Ams- Osprey 6mm Prefit Barrel Group Buy

[Marbles]

Well, I was going to buy one of these in 6 Creed, but Three Bears had a 243 T3x in 8 twist on sale for $569 and at nearly $100 cheaper, I decided to go for the complete rifle instead and have a spare Tikka action laying around.

However, if not for this thread having me about to pull the trigger on a barrel last weekend, I would have been more responsible and only bought the milk I walked in for. So, thanks @B_Reynolds_AK, all my wife had to say was "at least it's not another knife."

Good point. For my ab raptor and the reflex, I'd rather not have adapters but it's not that big of a deal.

If you do get an adapter, call AB and order one from them. It's flawless. I had a local "smith" cut and crown a model 70. It could only be threaded to 1/2" and they put an adapter on there. It was so bad I couldn't get an alignment rod through the suppressor and into the bore. I checked that their original threads were good and it was because of the adapter.

I called AB and got a 1/2 to 5/8 adapter and it's good to go now. Just FYI.

Just an FYI, Precision Armament adapters are really nice and fit standard threads without extending past the crown. From pictures, the PA look a touch more to my liking than the AB, but I have never seen an AB adapter in person and the differences are very minimal (PVD coating and thinner shoulder area on the PA).

 

[lak2004]

Well, I was going to buy one of these in 6 Creed, but Three Bears had a 243 T3x in 8 twist on sale for $569 and at nearly $100 cheaper, I decided to go for the complete rifle instead and have a spare Tikka action laying around.

However, if not for this thread having me about to pull the trigger on a barrel last weekend, I would have been more responsible and only bought the milk I walked in for. So, thanks @B_Reynolds_AK, all my wife had to say was "at least it's not another knife."



Just an FYI, Precision Armament adapters are really nice and fit standard threads without extending past the crown. From pictures, the PA look a touch more to my liking than the AB, but I have never seen an AB adapter in person and the differences are very minimal (PVD coating and thinner shoulder area on the PA).

Did you pick up a tikka t3x in 243 for $569?!

 

[SloppyJ]

Well, I was going to buy one of these in 6 Creed, but Three Bears had a 243 T3x in 8 twist on sale for $569 and at nearly $100 cheaper, I decided to go for the complete rifle instead and have a spare Tikka action laying around.

However, if not for this thread having me about to pull the trigger on a barrel last weekend, I would have been more responsible and only bought the milk I walked in for. So, thanks @B_Reynolds_AK, all my wife had to say was "at least it's not another knife."



Just an FYI, Precision Armament adapters are really nice and fit standard threads without extending past the crown. From pictures, the PA look a touch more to my liking than the AB, but I have never seen an AB adapter in person and the differences are very minimal (PVD coating and thinner shoulder area on the PA).

Man I was battling building one or doing the same thing you did with the Tikka. Cheapest I could find a lefty with 1:8 was $800 so I decided to go the zermatt route for future modularity with the swappable bolt face. Now 3500 later, I have another cool rig sitting in the safe.

 

[Marbles]

Did you pick up a tikka t3x in 243 for $569?!

Yes, in stainless too.

 

[lak2004]

Yes, in stainless too.

Score!

 

[wind gypsy]

Ordered a 18" 6 creed 750 taperless contour for a tikka. By my calcs at shorter lengths the 750 taperless with thinner tikka tennon should be near the exact same weight as a proof sendero contour. The carbon might be lighter at longer barrel lengths. PVA also introduced a .680 taperless contour that should be light AF with enough shoulder for 9/16" threads but i'm not sure that was available in the group buy. I bet that is on par with tikka lite contour weights in many barrel lengths.

Carbonsix has sales regularly in that price range. Last summer and their Black Friday. I don’t know if they’re doing it again this summer but I bet they will.

If a guy wants to wait for Carbon 6 to run a sale and then another what, 4+ months after order? they could get a mcgowan blank that then has an opportunity to have stresses introduced via carbon wrapping and a bore that will heat up quicker, but at least it will have carbon fiber on it..

 

[bowrunner81]

Yeap! 6CM is hard to beat. I’m building my third one now.


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I know you shoot 115 DTAC. On a 6cm and say 20” barrel, what kind of velocity do you think you would get and what would you say is the effective range with that combo? Seems like it would be a handy lightweight rifle to have.

 

[wind gypsy]

Got my shipping notice already.

 

[KU_Geo]

can anyone that ordered a .75” taperless, what did the weight come out? And at what length?

 

[willfrye027]

canyons that ordered a .75” taperless, what did the weight come out? And at what length?

.750 taperless 6mm creedmoor at 26” is 3lb 6oz on my scale. No threads or flutes.

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

can anyone that ordered a .75” taperless, what did the weight come out? And at what length?

39 oz for an AnTi X prefit. 18” 6 CM
I had a local company, Alaska Hydrographics, do the Cerakote so that the lead time was shorter from PVA ($60 and 2 days!)

 

[bojangles808]

.750 taperless 6mm creedmoor at 26” is 3lb 6oz on my scale. No threads or flutes.

sheesh i thought the 24 inch oem tikka barrels were around 2lb 5 oz i was tempted by the pvas but i dono if the .750 taperless is a pound heavier?

 

[willfrye027]

sheesh i thought the 24 inch oem tikka barrels were around 2lb 5 oz i was tempted by the pvas but i dono if the .750 taperless is a pound heavier?

Oh yeah it’s definitely much heavier than factory. Personally I appreciate that extra pound..thinking the total build for this gun will be in that 9.5lb ish range (rokstok, maven rs1.2). I’ve found that I really like my guns around 9.5lbs, about as heavy as I can shoot well offhand and more stable in the other positions.

 

[bojangles808]

Oh yeah it’s definitely much heavier than factory. Personally I appreciate that extra pound..thinking the total build for this gun will be in that 9.5lb ish range (rokstok, maven rs1.2). I’ve found that I really like my guns around 9.5lbs, about as heavy as I can shoot well offhand and more stable in the other positions.

well i will have to call them and see what other lighter contour options there are. would much rather prefer to be closer to 8.5 lbs thank you for posting that info otherwise I wouldn't have known!

 

[willfrye027]

well i will have to call them and see what other lighter contour options there are. would much rather prefer to be closer to 8.5 lbs thank you for posting that info otherwise I wouldn't have known!

There is one lighter option..maybe .680 taperless? I know that I did not order the lightest option.

 

[z987k]

Idk why companies don't just offer the factory tikka contour with a bell to 5/8 threads at the end.

 

[Lawnboi]

Idk why companies don't just offer the factory tikka contour with a bell to 5/8 threads at the end.I

I can see why, that’s a different program for every inch.

We busted PVA balls pretty hard and got the 750 and 680 taperless.

Someone should buy a 680 and weigh it. I think I’d go with that for a 22 cal barrel, but I’m good on 22 cal hunting stuff for a while.

 

[Lawnboi]

well i will have to call them and see what other lighter contour options there are. would much rather prefer to be closer to 8.5 lbs thank you for posting that info otherwise I wouldn't have known!

680 taperless should be about like a tikka lite.

9/16 threads is all it will take though if that matters.

 

[bowrunner81]

Can we be of you folks talk about benefits to a taperless barrel vs a tapered one? I’m curious.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

The taperless gets to the final size by like 6" from the breech and continues to the end of the barrel the same size. A taper barrel at 6" slowly tapers off to the end. The taperless barrel is lighter.