Anyone using one of these ? Accurate enough ?.If so what factory ammo are you running.Cheers.

Yep read that , cheers. Pulled the pin and bought one ( package deal) . I’ll post up my thoughts when I get it all sorted.Seems really well built , slightly heavier than a Tikka I’d say but no heavier all up (scope , dpt ,talleys) than my remington with laminated stock. I’m a shit shot I’ll admit so it’ll be interesting.Also never shot a suppressed rifle ( old school)

Well after generally buggering around over Xmas and doing a bit of fishing I finally got to shoot the new  Bergara 308 yesterday.I was a shit day for shooting really , strong , blustery Norwest.Hot too. I did the shoot 1 , clean ( used bore tech eliminator) for 10 shots as per the book that came with it.Straight away it started to be promising. Quick adjustments at 50 had two shots touching.I ran it in with Federal blue box 150s ( free with the gun), then switched to Hornsby SST 150s( with interlock bullet ).Gun was Bloody good . I did my average rough inch cause I’m a shit shot and my mate who has had a lot of range time shot 3/4 inch .Now this is in real windy conditions in a kale paddock with what I would call a shit rest( a daypack and and a gun bag).He thinks he could shoot them touching on a range. Pretty pleased to be honest. Nice trigger ( haven’t adjusted yet).Fed flawlessly ( magazine like a Tikka).bugger all recoil , more like push than a boot with the Dpt mk11 .Perfect machining. No burrs or poor cutting.Overall a bloody good rifle for someone who want something other than a tikka.package for someone starting out is about 1900 dollars.( VX freedom , Talley rings which are good rings DPT mk2 and the gun itself).I put my Vx3i on this gun to shoot. So I’m chuffed.Might be leaving the Parker Hale in the cupboard next trip. Cheers, Paul.

If you are after good cheap ammo Belmont is the answer about $1 a round for .308

Thanks for that info.  I did some Googling and it seems their (Bergara) opinion is pretty much "well, our machining is so good, don't really bother, but if you must, then..."

The Howa break-in (which I read seeing as I was set on a Howa  ) says to do the "let it cool" thing, so I'm assuming there is some value in that.

Picked up couple boxes PerFecta FMJ's for cheapish - now just need to wrangle time out of life to go and spend a quiet morning on the range.

Bought some Belmont soft points and took them out to the range which was set up at 200m.

Shot one, a bit low, but fine, rifle was sighted in using 25m range and some guess work.

Shot two. No new hole (this using scope to check, set to 9x). WTF? Missed the target!?

Shot three.  No new hole. JFC. What now.

Mojo somewhat shook, two more shots, slightly less care taken. Ok, not far off.

Walk up to target, first three shots are keyholed!!     

Anyway, found rifle more lively than I'd choose, so added two baffles to suppressor, shot out to range momentarily yesterday, 2 x 5 round groups to see if extending suppressor has made any change to POI.

Just over 1 MOA using the same Belmont ammo at 200m with pretty swirly wind.

Interested to put some match ammo through it to see just how straight it can shoot.

PS: The extra baffles have quieted it down appreciably...

XRhunter wrote on Feb 15^th, 2021 at 4:23pm:


Reckon the extra extra 2 are worth it?  I suppose not if you haven't done it?