Nice. I'm currently working on one but I heard the heat effects the barrel and the consistency isn't reliable. Debating on fluting it for heat dissipation and seeing it that would help. Otherwise, it will make a nice winter rifle.

 

Taking it out of its origional stock will help with heat. Its also a bolt action so its not like the heat buildup of a semi auto. The archangel has vent holes on the bottom too.

 

Did that stock have a bipod mount or did you have to add it yourself.

 

you have to drill the hole the rest of the way thruogh. Next time i brake it down ill take a pic. It comes with the stud.

 

I've been thinking lately about doing this same build almost. Let us know how she shoots.

 

I was just wondering. I was going to buy one last year but couldnt find any info on a bipod stud so ended up going with a boyds.

 

Finally shot yesterday. With laser boresighting at the house first i was on paper at 100 yards. 30 1/2 MOA clicks low and 16 left. First time using bore sight BTW. And i did it in my house at like 15 feet and just centered cross hairs on the dot. About 3 MOA group. 5 shots. Dialed it in to about 1 MOA left. Cross wind picked up a bit and was gusty. Ran out of that ammo. Only had 10 rounds steel core silver tip. Started shooting with some non steel core ammo that i purchased for thd stripper clips at a good deal but was real dirty looking. I wiped them with a rag b4 loading. Groups were spread out horizontally about 6MOA but only anout 1MOA high. Hitting about 2 MOA lower then other ammo. I will post pictures of ammo later.
Trigger was great but i was giving a bit too much finger.
Magazine on Archangel sucks. You have to open and close bolt to get mag to pop up first round for feeding. Had some trouble with rounds tilting funny in magazind making it hard for bolt to grab round. Some rounds would hang up and not feed into chamber straight. Not reliable to say the least. I think it needs a stronger spring. The spring is real weak. I had no problems with box mag. All was smooth.
Burris 1-4 MTAC scope is a winner. I shot with ilumination off. Nice and clear. Good eye relief. Shot at 1x and 4x. 25 rounds total.
Recoil is strong but not the mule kick of standard mosin stock.
I like the Rock Solid bolt handle
Scope rail still solid.
I dont like the crown that Country Gunsmith did. Ill post a few pics for opinion. I am no crown expert so i need some input. I might try and put an 11deg on it depending on the feedback.
Very loud as expected.
Was fun to shoot. Got many looks and likes at range.

 

After watching the reviews on the archangel, seen there are fixes for the mags. Already started to fix mine.

 

the only fix i saw was regarding a production problem that caused the plastic to deform during cooling. I also saw some stuff with people who had problems with the magazine falling out when shooting. I dont think either is my issue. What fix are you refering too. Can you post a link or describe it for me?

 

Here is the 2 types of ammo i tried. The silver tip loaded better and i think had better groupings. The silver tip has 188 76 on the bottom and the dirty one has 60 47 on the bottom.

 

Here is where you need to drill out to mount the provided sling stud. Start with a small bit and work up till it starts to thread. Its easy to make the hole bigger. Not so much to make it small again
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Ok. So i filed down some of the area on the stock that was blocking the interupter and now i can get 4 of 5 rounds to feed. There are still 2 issues. One is that the bolt really needs to be pulled hard back to the rear to make sure you get behind the rim of the next round and to kind of jult the round up into position. The next thing is that the follower is not putting the last round in the same position as the rounds that are pushed up by other rounds. This causes the last round to jam up and not want to push forward. Pushing down on the rim end of the cartridge tilts the tip end up and then it will feed most of the time if the tilt is not too much or it hits the top side of the chamber and jams up.

 

Wow. I knew that I was going to have to tweak the stock and all the mags, but man I'm glad I only paid $100 for the archangel.
As far as the links, I watch the ones on the promag site & a few of the ones on YouTube. Was planning in baking the mags the way they show to prevent those issues.
I did notice that the barrel I'm working in doesn't sit right in the stock and am going to have to mill it down some more which will probably not allow me to flute the barrel.
Did you use the same barrel?

 

yeah its the stock barrel. It fits fine.