Comments on: Victrix Armaments Rifles with Advanced 5-Axis CNC Technology

By: Starbuck

Starbuck — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:11:26 +0000

Who is the USA importer? I don’t believe this information is on their website.

By: mikee

mikee — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:01:35 +0000

Good luck on Victrix F-Class technology. F-Class is the “Formula 1″ of long range benchrest competition. There are no magic puddings to this game. Everything including the “nut behind the bolt” has to get it together to make it all work! Time will tell.

By: Vince Bottomley

Vince Bottomley — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 07:49:01 +0000

Boyd – Benchrest? Yes, I do shoot it – two Top 20 places in the ‘Worlds’.
However, the Victrix is aimed at F Class but, as most top level competitors will tell you, their equipment is ‘Benchrest’ standard.

Bruce – Victrix have a background in military rifle production using CNC.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 02:23:14 +0000

Production of barrels on “CNC” equipment, including the cutting of chambers, has been around in “military” rifle production, for several decades.

I understand that the FN plant has been at it for quite a while.

Alternate method is to hammer-forge the barrel, INCLUDING the chamber, in ONE pass: VERY quick. There are not too many issues with “co-axiality” given the same form mandrel contains the rifling and the chamber “shapes”. Trickiest part is tracking the relatively short mandrel so that the rotary hammers arrive at the chamber end, just at just the right moment.

See the Steyr AUG for an example.

Most “mil-spec’ barrels thus produced are made with an allowance for the deposition of hard chromium,(or “eco-friendly” equivalent), hence the use of rifling forms that do NOT have nice, sharp corners on lands and grooves.

By: Boyd Allen

Boyd Allen — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:36:55 +0000

There seems to be a lot going on with this company. The action sounds interesting, but the word benchrest gets thrown around a lot, by many who do not compete in those sports. Until their equipment has shown what it is actually capable of in those sports, my attitude will be a hopeful wait and see. CNC is not magic. It is how just about everything, that is machined is produced, good bad and indifferent. What I can say is that the author has identified the problem, setting up a barrel for chambering, and as far as that is concerned, as far as I am concerned that one will have to be proven in competition.