500 Nitro

"If you want a 9.3 or 375 double, plenty are available on the market so why not buy one of these".

Plenty?!

Earth to 500 Nitro, as far as I am aware there are only three offerings with some mechanism to regulate a load to your satisfaction (please let me know of others), otherwise it's just get what you are given and be grateful.

You have the:
. Tikka/Valmet (U/O);
. the Baikal (SxS) and
. the "Blaser" (SxS).

The Tikka suffers from the U/O "not quite the real thing" fashion crime, but, its accuracy and regulation mechanism are fair dinkum.

The "Blaser" is treated as some kind of joke on this forum, so forget it.

That leaves the Baikal, as yet, an unknown quantity.

So if I wish to load and regulate to my satisfaction, the option in 9.3x74R is a Tikka in U/O, that's it, only one option.

There are no SxS 9.3x74R options.

Leaving aside the 9.3x74R, in SxS I have the "as yet unknown" Baikal.

So the Baikal it is, my choice is 30-06 (wha? who cares) or 45/70 (well it is something, we can work with this).

The 45/90 with 0.75" freebore SxS project is achievable.

Spartan in 9.3x74R please.

AR2201
The sleep of reason breeds monsters

By the way has anyone got their hands on one of these mythical bloody Spartans yet?

Is there any news?

Especially on the regulation mechanism, does it work?
Does it work for both windage and elevation?