I had been lusting after this thing since I got to fondle one the was traded at my buddies shop. Unfortunately at the time I was caught up in the "Obama's gonna take all the AR's!" frenzy that swept the nation and was up to my elbows in "brass flingers"

Well, After spending a year getting cozy with a 10FP in .308 I was ready for a change. I sold an AR HBAR match and bought a Low Profile 1:7 .223. I liked the fact that you can reload .223for about half of .308 and I like the fact that .223 is nice for solo shooting because you can call your own shots. When I bought the LP a good friend of mine called dibs; telling me that if he ever got the money he could buy from me for what I paid for it. Well, some lady hit the back of his truck and he got an insurance check and convinced himself that the bent bumper and small dent in the truck "adds character" so he took the LP off my hands. I was a little bummed. A quick look at Gun Broker revealed a NIB LRPV .223 1:7 for $830 Buy it Now. YAY!

With a slight amount of trepidation, this being my first GB purchase, I sent out the Postal money order to the man in Alabama, who immediately sent me the tracking number. Again YAY! After four days of checking the UPS site monitoring the my new purchase's progress every 30-40 seconds (it takes a Long Damn time to get from Dallas to Phoenix) the gun arrived at my FFL.

I took it out of the box and thought "This is one stout MoFo" The FFL said he had to charge me extra because he had to hire a few guys to get it off the UPS truck. It took me all of 12 seconds to know that this is exactly what I wanted.

I picked up the gun on Friday and we had a shooting day planned on Sunday so I rushed home where the new 20 MOA NF rail had arrived and promptly bedded the rail and installed the 5.5-22 NP-R2 that had vacated the Low Profile.

I spent all day Saturday making the loads I wanted to try in the LRPV and some .308 with 110 V-Max's for my FNAR (which I replaced with a 12 BR DP in .308 this week, Hurry FRIDAY!)

On Sunday we started the day by running 50 rounds from the Tubb 2000 fire lapping system through the LRPV. Shoot ten, Clean. Shoot ten, Clean...tedious but whatever. Then I started on my hand-loads which break down as follows: Winchester New brass, 23 grains of H4895, Federal 205's, with the following Bullets, 77SMK's, 80 Berger VLD's, 75 A-Max's, and 80 Nosler CC's. All set .010 off the lands. (note: the stupid ammo boxes I had wouldn't close with the bullets loaded this way, and my buddy said the $4 hinged-lid Planos are the way to go)

Our set-up is a hillside the includes AR500 Metal plates in either 1 or 2 MOA sizes from 300 to 1000 Yards.

It took three rounds to get the LRPV dinging the 625 yard gong. After that it was just a matter of figuring the drop for the further distances. This would have been easier had I remembered to bring the freaking tripod for the chronograph so we could get an idea of the bullet speeds.

The gun was amazing with all four bullets! I had picked the load randomly from the manual because it seemed safe with all four bullets.

I love this thing!!!!! I would have saved myself a bunch of money and headache if I woulda gotten rid of the AR's and got this a year ago and I'd have a lot more brass, because I ALWAYS come home with 50 round ammo boxes containing 48 or 49 cases.

After the gong ringing session and what seemed like 1400 patches down the barrel I settled in to shoot some groups. The way our set-up is arranged the following are shot hilltop to hilltop about 125 yards. Below are the results (All are 5 shot groups):

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Looked great until I got excited and pulled the last one.

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Not too shabby

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Hmmmm?

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The top hole is the result of getting excited about the first four going through the bottom hole!

I have to say with ZERO load development, I am extremely impressed with this thing and cannot wait to get out and get it really shooting. The phrase I guess is "Only accurate rifles are interesting" Well, color me interested.

For my money I liked the Noslers they're priced right and seemed to perform best overall. I'm gonna mess with the others a little on seating depth and see what happens, but I really like the Noslers

I only hope the 12 BR is this nice.