Defensive Edge
Mountain Precision Hunter – Chassis
The MPH Chassis was designed out of the need for a detachable mag lightweight chassis for bolt action rifle builds. I have owned rifles of almost every action type and configuration, none of them I have hated. There have been some platforms I have liked better than others and have spent a great deal of time with. Sniper rifles and the guns standard to 3 gun competition have been my mainstay platforms for the last 30 years. I have fired hundreds of thousands of rounds through these platforms. So when the idea of a super lightweight chassis rifle started to occupy my mind I started to blend them together.
Objectives:
- Simple design nothing complicated to run or operate
- Sleek to move through terrain and brush effectively
- Detachable magazine – this will limit some caliber but allow most.
- Must use AI pattern magazines, although modifying them would be OK
- Use the highest quality and technologically advanced materials available
- Designed as a field rifle chassis not a competition chassis
- Balance and feel must be 100%
- Equally effective shooting from unsupported positions as good as it works prone
- Must have a reasonable long range ability based on platform not cartridge
- Detachable magazine or any other features must not rattle or make noise, period
- Must have sling mounting options available
- Must be bipod adaptable for Spartan, UM stud mounts or Pic rail bipods
- Platform must not flex or be unstable in any position
- Must have adjustable cheek piece
- Butt stock design must work with rear bag
- Must be adaptable for cant and LOP in kit form
- Weight must be very close to 30 oz., there are plenty of 60 oz. or heavier chassis available
Details:
- Main chassis body, recoil lug assembly, machined from 70 series alloy
- Alloy finished Anodizing
- Carbon fiber tube butt stock made form thick wall high modulus tubing
- Forend tube made from standard wall high modulus tubing
- Side panels made from .125” thick high modulus flats
- Butt stock made from 28,000 psi high impact, wear resistant Nylon
- Cheek piece made from Kydex
- Stock may be assembled with cant or LOP at whatever the end user desires
- Forend may be shortened to accommodate shorter barrel applications
- Barreled action may be removed from chassis with only 3 bolts for service / cleaning
- Almost any AR 15 grip may be adapted to the platform but is supplied with an Ergo grip
- Recoil pad is a 1” Decelerator
- Fits any Remington 700 footprint action left or right handed, LH panels required for LH applications
- Will accept barrel profiles up to #5 taper, ideal taper is a #4 fluted for best weight / accuracy combination
- Carbon Fiber contact points (stock and forend) much nicer in cold weather than an aluminum chassis
- Chassis with 3 round AI mag, grip, butt stock dressed out except barreled action and scope weighs 29 oz. Since the AI mag weighs 5.5-6.0 oz this make the MPH comparable to most of the high end lightweight stocks on the market or even a little lighter. No one makes an adjustable cheekpiece chassis that comes even close.
Using an ultralight action like some of the titanium offerings or alloy / steel hybrids on the market it is possible to build a rifle that weighs 6.5 lbs with a detachable mag chambered in something with some legs like the 7 WSM etc. We have shot the prototype with a standard Remington 700 action, # 3 Hart fluted barrel and Nightforce 2.5-10 NXS, Spartan bipod (total weight 8.7 lbs / 7.2 LBS WO Scope) very effectively out to 1200 yards.
Chassis Price $1100.00