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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