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UPDATES and NEWS . . .

This page is my attempt to give you a more efficient means of seeing what is happening in the KMW shop.  Any meaningful page updates, new products or news will be posted below with links directly to the main page associated with that item.

March 30, 2010

One of the first live, away from home tests of the Integrated Mounting Block was completed this month at the 2010 Snipers Hide Cup at Rifles Only.  I took a stock we have been testing with my personal rifle bolted in so that I could get some realistic field use and feedback.  After each day of shooting, the rifle was removed from the stock and then remounted to test for zero shift or other problems. 

After 3 days of this, we found the Integrated Mounting Block to be very consistent and allowed my barreled action to be at least as accurate as when mounted into its normal pillar bedded stock.  No zero shift occurred and groups remained consistently small.  Last rifle shot of the competition was at a 1" dot from prone at 100yds.  My shot impacted center of the dot with the same scope zero/P.O.A/P.O.I. that I started with 2 days earlier.

This is our answer to a "no bedding" system that some contracts will require.  While this Mounting Block was developed for the M.A.C.S. project, it and several other features are working out so well that I will be rolling them into the SENTINEL stock as options.

These features and integrated components will allow this family of stocks to exhibit the same mission flexibility as most "chassis" type stocks on the market but without the AR-15 grips and aluminum skin contact suffered with their kind.

First production I.M.B.s will be in from anodizing shortly.  Mike at McMillan has already done an outstanding job on the inletting program for this part.  I will post some photos of the first installs and completed rifles by June.

May 19, 2010

We received the first test run of hinge systems for the M.A.C.S. project.  They look good and I will start on the fixtures needed to install them.  I hope to have some installed and ready to test in the next few weeks.   Photos and updates to the M.A.C.S. page will be added at that time.

May 23, 2010

I have posted 1 rifle for sale in the RIFLES for SALE section.  This rifle is the last XL/A5 combination build that I will do. 

This is a new rifle and is on a low serial number SURGEON XL repeater.

** SOLD 5/26/2010 **

May 27, 2010

We finally made time to take some detail images of some of the installed I.M.B. (Integrated Mounting Block). 

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Top shot of short action I.M.B.

Top shot of short action I.M.B. installed in a SENTINEL Combat Stock. This view shows how much surface to surface contact is available to the host action.

The KMW I.M.B. will also accomodate most known recoil lugs on the market.

Developed for the M.A.C.S. project, this system is working so well that I am bringing it into the SENTINEL stocks as an option.

Round Long Action, Badger M2008 Short and Magnum Action and Surgeon XL-CIP versions are coming on line during the year.  Pricing and availability will be posted as soon as we determine our costs and labor for the install.

At this time, the KMW I.M.B. is only being developed for the SENTINEL and M.A.C.S.  Variants compatible with other composite stocks will be developed as time permits.

 

August 8th, 2010

I have posted 1 rifle for sale in the RIFLES for SALE section.  This rifle is the last R700/A5 combination build that I will do. 

This is a new rifle and is on a totally remachined Remington M700 action.

 

 

 

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