Seekins Precision VKR20 Rifle Chambered in .224 Valkyrie
Seekins Precision has joined the list of companies that make .224 Valkyrie products. They launched a variety of products for this caliber including barrels, complete upper receivers and complete rifles. Perhaps the most notable product in this new line is the VKR20 rifle which we will talk about in this article.
Seekins Precision VKR20 rifle is built using the company’s iRMT-3 Upper Receiver and SP223 Ambi Billet Lower Receiver. Both receivers are machined out of 7075-T6 aluminum. The rifle also comes with a 15″ SP3R-V3 M-LOK hand guard which has a flat bottom portion and ensures a free floated barrel. Both receivers and the handguard feature a Mil-Spec Type III hard coat anodized finish of matte black color.
The VKR20 rifle comes with a 20″ match grade barrel that features 5R riflings and 1:7 twist rate. This rifle also comes standard with a Seekins Precision ATC (Advanced Tactical Compensator) muzzle device. The low profile gas blocks that are installed on the VKR20 barrels are adjustable. The rifle also features a Seekins Precision ProComp 10x stock and a Timney Targa trigger.
According to the manufacturer, they have tested their barrels and rifles with a wide variety of .224 Valkyrie loads and bullet weights and interestingly, they found out that the 90 gr projectiles performed not quite well. Here is an excerpt from the company’s website:
After extensive testing and collaboration with designers and ammunition manufacturers, we have found the wide variety of ammunition and bullet designs from the light varmint bullets to the mid-weight match offerings perform exceedingly well. However, we found the accuracy of the 90gr ammo to be less than satisfactory and for this reason, cannot guarantee accuracy with the current production 90gr ammunition. As ammunition manufacturers continue to advance new loads with different bullet designs, there is sure to be future options that will live up to Seekins Precision standards.
The Seekins Precision VKR20 rifle is listed on the company’s website at an MSRP of $1,995.
Images from www.seekinsprecision.com
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There are a lot of bullet weights from 69gr up to 85gr that offer excellent performance out of a Valkyrie barrel, even as low as 18".
Some of you guys are acting like little drama queens about the barrel length and twist rate issue. Not everyone who decides to get a 224 Valk rifle is going to shoot 90gr exclusively, much less inclusively, the way people recommend 1:7" for modern AR15 builds but 3 in 4 of the people buying them will never put down the cash to shoot even 69gr.
I would love to see this go head to head with an off the shelf AR using a ballistic advantage match barrel.