Gun Nuts review of the T/C Icon Warlord

[shooter32]

Just watched... The Gun Nuts review on the T/C Icon Warlord.

Nice gun but very pricey!!

Petzal: Thompson/Center Icon Warlord Review, Part II

In case you missed it, here is part one of the Warlord review.

My rifle had seen some use when I got it—I’d guess a couple of hundred rounds, and I didn’t bother shooting it with hunting bullets or with .308 slugs of less than 167 grains (the current 7.62 sniper round uses a 175-grain bullet). ALL GROUPS ARE 5-SHOT, NOT 3. (Bear in mind that T/C guarantees 3-shot ½ MOA, and that the target that came with the rifle was 3 shots in .400.)

Federal factory match 168-grain .600
Nosler 168-grain match handload .646
Lapua 167-grain Scenar handload .276
Sierra 175-grain Sierra Matchking handload .500
Berger 168-grain handload .387

Not only is the rifle exceedingly accurate, it is exceedingly consistent. None of the five bullet groups above deviated more than ½-inch from a center point. If you superimposed all the groups I fired it would still be one group. You can shoot this rifle fast, slow, clean, fouled, red hot or ice cold; it makes no difference. The slugs all go to the same place. I have shot nothing else like it, and I would not know where to go if I wanted a more accurate tactical rifle.

The price is $3,499, and delivery time is 12 to 14 weeks. Tcarms.com

[Big Frank]

Tacticool.    Sweet shootin'.

[TAB]

If I'm going to spend that much, I'm going to get a AI.

hopefully a ax338

 

[twyacht]

Give or take some "chump" change, I can get a .50. for $3500.00

Ammo maybe more, but I'll have to shoot less...

Still a sweet package, in a great round. The .308/7.62x51, still is a wonderful caliber.  Like the 30-06, multi-purpose for any 4 legged, or 2 legged creature, zombie disposal approved, and still affordable.

[kmitch200]

Saw that today too...very nice.

$3500 is a little more than I paid for my Rem 700 to be completely rebuilt by a benchrester/rifle tuner, and it could have been done cheaper if I shopped around more.
Remember, you still have to buy optics - there is at least another 1000.

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[fightingquaker13]

If its got that kind of performance and price tag, I'd lean toward .338 lapua. If I can drop close to $5k on a rifle and scope and doo dads, I can probably afford the ammo. I'm assuming that 1/2 MOA holds out into the far distance of course. Still, less than1/2" at 100 yards is just plain scary. A guy might lose an eye.
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[tombogan03884]

Saw that today too...very nice.

$3500 is a little more than I paid for my Rem 700 to be completely rebuilt by a benchrester/rifle tuner, and it could have been done cheaper if I shopped around more.
Remember, you still have to buy optics - there is at least another 1000.

And T/C has not even established any reputation for these bolt guns they only started designing with in the last 5 years.
I will be stunned if there is no recall or if the rifle continues to get glowing revues.

[TAB]

Saw that today too...very nice.

$3500 is a little more than I paid for my Rem 700 to be completely rebuilt by a benchrester/rifle tuner, and it could have been done cheaper if I shopped around more.
Remember, you still have to buy optics - there is at least another 1000.

1000 is a cheap scope.  Price out a Schmidt & Bender.   I kid you not a run of the mill AI and a S&B, can run $9k.  You will just have a gun and scope combo that will last forever and if you went to most of the worlds elite snipers, you will find that exact same combo...

[kilopaparomeo]

That's a beauty and I lust for the stock and the oversized bolt handle.

That said, my bone-stock FN PBR XP in .308 with a Burris variable riding on top of it shoot MOA with ANYTHING I put through it and consistenly shoots .5-.7 MOA with my 169 gr SMK and Varget handloads.

And, I have all of $1000 in the package.  Not as sexy...but the target doesn't know the difference.

[shooter32]

That's a beauty and I lust for the stock and the oversized bolt handle.

That said, my bone-stock FN PBR XP in .308 with a Burris variable riding on top of it shoot MOA with ANYTHING I put through it and consistenly shoots .5-.7 MOA with my 169 gr SMK and Varget handloads.

And, I have all of $1000 in the package.  Not as sexy...but the target doesn't know the difference.

+1 KPR