D9Firearms - DPMS LR-260 Goes to New Zealand
Our good friend Paul from way down under in the land of sheep and kiwis just sent us some awesome pictures of him and his good friend Harry stretching out of a hilly range for some long range shooting. A while back we outfitted Paul with a DPMS 24” Varmint upper and a custom DPMS lower built by us.
Paul also mounted a Horus Vision Hawk and provided some feedback on that as well. We have used the Sheppard scope and it is very nice. They cost about $200 more but based on Paul’s review it sounds like we better get one in and do some evaluation.
Recently we also sent him a second rifle a DPMS LR-260 and he just emailed us confirming that he picked up from customs over the weekend. However, Paul now has a new problem, which is really not a problem, is that his wife now wants one. If all goes well we hope to outfit Paul with a D9Firearms custom SASS version in 308Win.
I’ll let Paul tell the rest of the story:
Hi Darrel,
The .260 is in country, just need to clear Customs.
Had a day out at Harry’s 1000m range on Sunday, I’ve attached a few photos.
I had a chance to Crony some 77g SMK’s through the AR but only went as high as 22.5g of H335 (using 23g behind the 69’s) the 77’s made about 2650fps vs the 69’s 2800fps. at that speed there was no appreciable difference in group size. I will need to experiment further to see if I can gain any extra accuracy by speeding up the 77’s.
There is a photo of a 12″ circular steel plate, it’s out at 500yds. The 3 shot group has a spread of 80mm or about 3.25in this was shot from the AR using the 69g Match Kings. The Savage shot a similar size group
There is also a photo looking down the range, you should be able to see both the 500yd targets and in the distance a rectangular target up on the hill to the right of centre. That target is a 8ft x 4ft steel plate that’s 1″ thick! it’s out at 1000m
I ended up swapping the Shepherd V2 from the Savage onto the AR, to be honest I think the Shepherd has better clarity than the Hawk despite having a smaller (25mm) main tube. The range reticule is within an inch using the 69’s @ 2800fps out to 300yds, within 2″ out to 600yds and spot on at 700yds. At 2850fps it’s about 1/2″ out at 1000yds.
Looks like the Hawk reaches it’s limit at about 700yds with the .223, haven’t done the math for the .260 yet, it may be useful a little further out. At this stage though I will probably go with a Shepherd V1 on it.
All in all very pleased with the AR, it’s every bit as accurate as the Savage by the looks.
Regards
Paul
P.S. The other white targets in some of the photo’s cost about $100 bucks each to shoot!
If you live down under or back here at home and need a long range AR varmint rifle contact us here at D9Firearms and we will be glad to assist you with you custom built AR rifle. (For you animal lovers ie. kooks don’t worry they weren’t shooting the sheep and if they did I’m sure they had a bbq after words.)