Friends, if you were to build your ultimate mountain rifle, your ultimate precision hunting rifle, what would you build?

So I've been asked this question a lot of times through my years in the industry and in front of me I have a rifle

that fits that pretty well and I've been asked a lot of times in the past few

months to tell more about this specific

rifle. This is one that I had done last year. I did some of it and I had friends do some of it.

At any rate, it's a rifle that was assembled of a

certain family of components and built a certain way in a certain cartridge

exactly how I wanted it. So I thought I'd share it with you. So something I've always liked to say

about rifles is, well let me back up. There's the old saying, lock, stock, and barrel.

And on a traditional muzzle-loading rifle

where that saying originated, that talks about the lock,

right, whether it's a flintlock or percussion lock,

the rifle stock, and then the barrel. Those are the primary components

of a rifle. In a more modern sense, I like to say that the action is the heart of a rifle. The stock is its skeleton because that's

what supports the whole system right, but its soul lives in the barrel. You have to have a really good barrel to have a really good rifle.

So let's talk about this one. This is built on a defiance anti X action. Now the anti

action is one that has been skeletonized really dramatically so that it's

super duper light. You can see all the different cutouts in the action itself. You can see them in the

fluting in that bolt. The bolt handle is hollowed out. The bolt shroud is scallowed out,

the shroud is scalloped.

What you can't see is inside this rifle,

it's got the same treatment.

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