Blaser R8 Straight-Pull Bolt-Action Rifle Now Available in 6.5 PRC
Blaser USA (importer of Germans firearm brands Blaser, Mauser, and J.P. Sauer) has announced that the Blaser R8 straight-pull bolt-action rifle is now available in 6.5 PRC. Similar in caliber to 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.5 PRC has a higher impact velocity and a flatter trajectory, which makes it popular with long-range hunters.
Blaser Group @ TFB:
Blaser R8 Straight-Pull Bolt-Action Rifle Now Available in 6.5 PRC
The R8 series has always offered hunters loads of premium features including a sub-2lb trigger pull (listed as 900 grams), a manual cocking system for added safety during hunting, quick takedown and reassembly, and fast barrel changes from calibers ranging from .204 Ruger up to the mighty .500 Jeffery. The fast barrel change system allows traveling hunters to carry a single rifle with them while maintaining the versatility of multiple calibers to match the environment and game they will be hunting in next.
If you combine all the different standard options on an R8, you can build over 47 million unique rifles and that does not even include custom shop options. The interchangeability makes it incredibly easy to convert your rifle from one caliber to another by simply switching out the barrel and bolt head. This can be done in less than a minute. The engineering and craftsmanship is so extraordinary, after any barrel change, the rifle will shoot to within 1/2 MOA every time.
-Jason Evans CEO, Blaser Group
The new 6.5 PRC version of the R8 straight-pull rifle will be available with a synthetic stock, wooden stock, the highly stylized Leather Edition, or the R8 Ultimate edition which features an ergonomically optimized synthetic stock with adjustable comb, recoil pad, and an integrated recoil system for those heavier hitting calibers. It is not yet known if the new 6.5 PRC caliber option will be available for the R8 Ultimate Silence with an integrated suppressor.
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Blaser is the most gay of the gay companies. They don't just built annoying magazine safeties in their rifles, they put the trigger literally in the magazine so that spare magazines cost €800. They sell straight pull bolt action rifles for €5000 and up, and the only straight thing about them is that they hit you straight in the face when cycling.
The radial lock on the R8 isn't as prone to exploding as the R93 was (great sign of quality i guess), but it can easily get stuck. About every 25 rounds you have to beat it open. That's how you do safety i guess. But it would't be Blaser if they hadn't come up with some "safety features" on their own.
You thought other companies blessing you with a magazine disconnect safety treat you like a retard? About that... Blaser put the trigger literally into the magazine. You broke it because you dropped it or simply want a spare/ reload? Yeah, that's €800 (~$1000) right there. For a magazine. Thanks for that one.
But your need for a spare magazine drastically reduces after firing the first shot. Did the bolt really just hit you in the face? On a straight pull rifle, whose only purpose, the entire raison-d'etre, is to cycle fast and while looking through the scope? Yes. Yes it did. An award for the guy that designed that "feature" please.
Talking about scopes, their expensive "own" Blaser branded scope looks and feels like it was made from Chinesium. Most definitely not the Zeiss or Swarovski quality you'd expect from European hunting scopes. And the plastic on the stock feels more like a plastic cup of Joghurt than a gun.
And yes, that's long term real world experience with 3 rifles from German gun ranges and hunting schools (yes, due to government regulations that's a thing...) with high round counts.