TTAG Rifle Build: The Ugly Duckling

By Tyler Kee

When Nick and I visited Accurate Ordnance last year, I made a proclamation in the car as we left. “I’m going to find a way to have these guys build a rifle for me. Hell or high water.” Fast forward a year, and the right rifle, the right project, and the right companies have all come together. Welcome to the first installment of the Project Ugly Duckling rifle . . .

Embarrassing as it is, I don’t own a single accurate bolt action rifle. Not a one. Oh sure, I’ve got a reasonably accurate hunting rifle, but not accurate in the truest sense. In the last year, I’ve been really wowed by the amount and quality of gear that companies want TTAG to test and evaluate. The problem of course isn’t ammo availability or range time. The problem is having a boringly reliable and consistent rifle to use as a platform.

As an example, Geissele gave me a scope mount at this year’s SHOT show that’s guaranteed to not have any point of impact shift after …Read the Rest

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