6.5 saum

Never did get around to posting my new hunting/mountain rifle. WTO knocked it out of the park on this one. Came in a bit heavier than my target (6lbs) but close enough at 6.4lbs bare and 7.9lbs with rings, scope, and ammo

Borden Alpine Ti
Manners EH3
Bix n Andy Tacsport trigger
PT&G bottom metal
Hawkins rings
Leopold Mark 6

Awesome cartridge, good looking rifle. Congrats!

Great looking rig!

WTO does some fine work. I bet it shoots.

Did I miss the barrel specs?


Awesome rig

How is the Borden

Not too shabby on initial testing .155 @ 100. Only tried one combo of bullets, powder, and primers. Will stick with that until it gets 100-200 more rounds through it then try to squeeze some more power out of it.

Ahhh I forgot that part

Bartlein 2b finished at 24” with a Benchmark Miller brake

The action is very nice. I was worried about Ti but if there is an issue the coating cleared it up for sure. It’s very smooth

Nice. I got a 2b for my next one. Thought about moving to a 3 but will probably leave it for now

Nice rifle...I put the same scope on one of my rifles....love that scope, capped windage and low profile turret...just about perfect.

Ed

Was there a lighter stock option? Thought it'd be lighter too.

Damn good looking rifle

.155 is none too shabby. You running 143eldx or a flavor of Berger?

I’m sure there was if I looked but I was pretty set on this one. It just felt good to me so didn’t want it shorter or thinner. Could have shortened the shank or gone a profile lighter too but I didn’t really want have to light of a contour. It’s close enough if I really want to cut some weight I can roll with another scope option and not make sacrifices on the rifle itself. It will be a pure hunting rifle anyway



135gr JLK

Wonder if the 6.5 saum will be commercialized?

Probably not with the PRC coming out. They’re close enough in performance a fast PRC barrel can make it faster than a slow saum barrel. All things equal about 50fps difference

Well its deadly out to 515

That sir is beautiful and 50% of my dream hunt. Congratulations.

Shame on you for not getting closer.

Clearly you are not a very good hunter, and are more of a shooter.

Obviously you do not know how to play the wind and stalk.

I don't understand why you need all those gizmos on a rifle scope.

This is what turret twirlers and turret spinners do. It is not real hunting shots.

Why would you use anything but Rem Core-Lokt ammo?

That's bad [censored]!!!!! Congrats!

Funny enough I wanted to bowhunt them and outfitter who is a hardcore bowhunter told me the area wasn’t great for it. Sure enough where we came in there were sheep on the 3 sides in front of us and getting closer would have run them out of the country. Guide intitially wanted me to take him at 591 but I insisted on getting as close as possible and 515 is where we ran out of cover

Break out the ghillie suit and start crawling!



Congratulations on a great rifle and great ram!