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MOD * X + ACCUPOWER ®
The complete A*B Arms Modular Rifle
System installed on the host rifle. The unit
has KeyMod slots as well as conventional
slots for attaching accessories. It also
comes with the excellent LUTH-AR MBA
stock and converts the host rifle to magazine
feed. The top rail that extends across
the scope mount, as well as the forearm,
has 20 MOA built in to it.
free of the magazine well which is a plus
if a rapid reload is needed.
With the MOD*X installed it was
time to mount the optic. The folks at
Trijicon were nice enough to send a set
of their 30mm steel scope rings along
with the AccuPower scope. They were
the perfect height for the 50mm objective
lens to clear the MOD*X forearm.
The MOD*X forearm and scope mount
have 20 MOA built right into it. The AccuPower
scope was then installed in the
rings and the scopes’ reticle was leveled
and plumbed. With everything tightened
down, the scope was aligned with a laser
bore sight just so it was “on the paper”
at 100 yards.
The Trijicon AccuPower scope was
their flagship 4-16X50 model. The Accu-
Power is a versatile, variable powered
riflescope with an electronic illuminated
reticle and 30mm main tube. Featuring
a high quality lens system with full
multi-layer coatings, the AccuPower
provides an incredibly clear sight picture.
The reticle illumination is powered
by a single CR2032 lithium battery and
has an easy-to-operate brightness adjustment
dial with eleven brightness settings
and an “off” feature between each
setting. The AccuPower features a hard
anodized aluminum body that protects
against corrosion and is waterproof to
ten feet (3m). With a generous adjustment
range for windage and elevation,
precise adjustment increments, and a
re-settable zero, the AccuPower riflescope
delivers the precision required
for pinpoint accuracy. The test scope
featured the Mil-Square reticle with red
illumination. Green illumination is also
available. The MIL-Square reticle was
designed by a former Marine Sniper
to give a shooter refined aiming points
compared to the widely accepted MIL-
Dot. This reticle provides the capability
of determining distance to a target,
determining the size of a target and to
provide visual reference points to be
used to compensate for bullet drop and
provide reference for follow up shot
compensation. Because of the open
square (instead of mil-dot) design the
user can more accurately align the edge
of the MIL-Square with the edge of the
object being measured. Intermediate
tick marks aid in increased accuracy for
ranging or shot placement.
With the chassis and optic mounted
to the rifle it was time to head to the
range. A Harris bipod was mounted to
the short section of rail on the forearms
bottom. All shooting was done either in
the prone position or from a shooting
table. Ammunition used included Gorilla
Ammunition’s .308 WIN 175 grain Sierra
MatchKing©, Federal Premium .308
WIN 180 grain Nosler Partition, Hornady
.308 WIN 168 grain TAP and Beck
Ammunition .308 WIN 168 grain A-Max
Subsonic, for use with a suppressor, but
more on that later.
The author has owned the Remington
700 used in this test for over 20
years and it has proven to be deadly
accurate. In fact, this author didn’t think
that the rifle could be more accurate than
it already was. These two new products
proved me wrong. Instead of a 1 MOA
rifle with the MOD*X installed along with
the Trijicon AccuPower the gun is now a
½ MOA rifle. All groups shot with the rifle
shrank in size. We had several 3-shot
groups, fired at 100 yards, that looked
like small cloverleafs. The ammunition
used in the test was also shot through
the rifle before its “transformation”. Almost
all group sizes dropped by at least
half. Some were even more than that.
The supplied magazine fed all of the
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