I accidentally made something like a DMR, but it's a manual action.
I pragmatically made a practical manual action DMR:
Since the 60s or 70s, they've been designed around semi-autos for quick follow-up shots and accurate target suppression, but they can also be pushed into a frontline combat role instead of just support. They're practical from 50 out to 600 yard combat rifles with good 1-2 MOA accuracy.
But the Savage Impulse is weird, even though it's a manual action: it can do that with its straight-pull action and a good LPVO. The Context also semi auto are harder to come by within civil market within jurisdiction and this is pragmatically what you can get for a high capacity practical rifle that is also ambi. Me shooting with old stock which I hated with a passion for lots of reasons:
The At One stock makes the rifle way easier to handle, with better balance and a chunkier front end for me to grip. It's much more pointable and can be shot from the shoulder easily.
Apparently, Boyds has a taller comb for cheek rise, but I didn't realize I needed to order it, and I'm annoyed it doesn't just come standard with the At One because it cost a bloody $100 usd to order it.
I just sanded the barrel channel a bit, wrapping sandpaper around the barrel and moving it back and forth to give it more free float room by thickness of the sandpaper. It was a little tight and it seems good now with that technique, but otherwise it dropped right in.
The optic is a PA Slx 1-8x24ffp ACSS raptor, and the loads I've handloaded line up with the reticle with this optic height of 2.23". I'm not wanting to lower it either because my head position and where the butt lands in my shoulder pocket feel comfortable. The bolt throw is long on the rifle, and when prone, I need enough length of pull to feel comfortable, which is why the optic is mounted so far back: it only has 3.2" eye relief.
but I didn't realize I needed to order it, and I'm annoyed it doesn't just come standard with the At One because it cost a bloody $100 usd to order it.
It's relatively new as well. It wasn't available when i got mine years ago and i only recently sold mine a few months ago and now that option exists.
If it helps you out, I ended up getting some craft foam and wrapped it with vet tape to make up the difference.
I've actually sent an email complaining to Boyd's that they should include it as a factory option or whatever. It should just come with the stock in my opinion.
Well you can see I have a tie on cheek riser. I have to raise the stock Factory one to the top and then I can just use the tie on one as a temporary fix. Unfortunately I literally lost my firearms license out of my card slot that's in my phone case probably walking my dog in the dog park. I can't go shooting probably for about 3 to 4 weeks here and I'm missing a rifle match that I was planning to go to.
Well pragmatically I wanted to do everything rifle that I can take out to competition, I can take hunting, I can shoot with, I can run the rifle for fun, like basically that turns out to be a DMR.
Makes me wish the Citadel ad500 was better. 1k semi auto 308 would be great to build off of, but I'm pretty sure a lot of the reviews are very lackluster for it
if the need for a cheek riser is an issue i would switch out the scope mount with low rings and then reduce the length of pull since the scope would probably be further by an inch or so in that configuration
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u/swift_gilford Aug 19 '26
It's relatively new as well. It wasn't available when i got mine years ago and i only recently sold mine a few months ago and now that option exists.
If it helps you out, I ended up getting some craft foam and wrapped it with vet tape to make up the difference.