I joined the 505 Gibbs club

[Altitude sickness]

I just fired my newest acquisition for the first time. A custom made 505 Gibbs. I was free handing the rifle at about 25 yards. To be honest. I was more concerned about recoil than accuracy.

The recoil was nothing to be concerned with, (less felt than my light 7 Rem mag) so tomorrow or Sunday I’ll put it on sticks and shoot for a group.

The action is amazing. Loads, cycles and feeds perfect. And so smooth. The lever movement is very precise and smooth.

Olympic/Bauska BBK-02 double square bridge action
11.2 pounds
14” LOP
23” barrel

 

[Hunting Hitman]

Welcome to the club! proper weight on that rifle as well.

HH

 

[meigsbucks]

Very nice…. Look out elephants, Altitude Sickness is on the loose!

 

[Fatback]

That’s a real nice looking rifle. That should have you covered for everything up to and including T-Rex.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Mark, I’ll bring it down for us to play with

 

[VertigoBE]

Congratulations! That’s a nice boomstick! Love that picture of the muzzle

What is the red dot that you put onto it?

 

[colorado]

Very nice! Your 7mm Rem Mag must weigh about 3 lbs if it kicks more lol

 

[BigGame]

Welcome to the club!

 

[Altitude sickness]

Vertigo, it came with the Riton Rmr

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[ActionBob]

Welcome to the club! She's a beauty for sure!

What loads are you shooting and what are you going to hunt with it?

 

[Altitude sickness]

Colorado, of course it has a lot more recoil than a 7 rem mag. But the 7mm has an average stock. A hard narrow recoil pad.

The 505 has a much beefier, better designed stock, much wider larger recoil pad. And yes 3 pounds heavier. Felt recoil is no where near what I expected.

 

[Altitude sickness]

ActionBob it came with dies the Red dot
Brass, bullets and ammo

I may hunt elephant with it.
It came with CEB 525
North fork 600
Woodlieghs
And hundreds of Barnes bullets

 

[Flewis]

Very nice! Everyone should have at least one 505.

 

[DPHunter4570]

A fine looking rifle!

 

[zephyr]

Welcome to the Club

 

[krish]

Welcome to the club. Like you said it is shootable at 2300ft/sec. It can be pushed d to 2600. But why. Congratulations. Less Bauskas guns are well built. Especially built by less himself.
Krish

 

[Jim Golden]

Beautiful rifle!

 

[matt85]

A fine looking gun! Very similar to the AHR 505 I used to own. I have some load data at home if your interested.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Thank you very much Matt. It came with the load data.

 

[RR 314]

Welcome! Sounds like you have a winner.