Not long ago we had the opportunity to take a trip out to see the good folks at Gunsite with Varmint Hunter Magazine. Here is a article that they did on our SABER-FORSST modular rifle chassis. Keep in mind while reading the article that the writer and staff were shooting medium caliber magnums. The big magums in the SABER chassis platforms are pleasant to shoot. Our thanks to our friends “Burt” and “John” at RUAG, the SWISS P ammo never fails to deliver fantastic down range performance. The 220gr .300WM ammo rocks!

The doors opened early this morning and attendance is strong. There is a line extending down the street to get in! Ashbury Precision Ordnance Mfg is located in Booth #111 just inside entrance #105, so please stop by and see us!

APO is running a NRA Show sales promotion on SABER Chassis, Asymmetric Warrior Precision Rifles, TCR-Tactical Competition Rifles and Tactical Tripods. Take advantage of special discounted pricing and depending on your show purchase receive a FREE Field Monopod or Long Range Accuracy F-Class Bipod. Big savings on our premium quality rifle products. Here is a link to the sales flyer on the APO website. Say hi to Matt and John at the booth!

After conducting several range demonstrations showing the installation of a standard barreled rifle action into APO’s SABER®-FORSST® MOD-0 modular rifle chassis, we thought it would be a good idea to video tape the process for you to see. We selected the ever popular Remington M700 short action for the conversion and also demonstrate how to adjust the SABER HTA (hand tool adjustable) shoulder stock to custom fit an individual shooter. Towards the end see how easy it is to add accessories to the converted rifle platform (e.g. bipod and night vision). Safe shooting!

Over the past 10 years (perhaps a bit more) we have fielded more than 15,000 TACT3 tripods in the USA for use by competitive rifle shooters, reconnaissance, forward observers, forward air controllers designated marksmen and sniper end users. We’ve put together an orientation video that demonstrates the assembly of the TACT3 Tactical Tripod Kit for day and night operations to more easily familiarize users with this gear.

Keep an eye out for our upcoming video on the complete line TACT3 tripods with accessories. If you have a TACT3 tripod we’d enjoy seeing your field pictures of it in action! You could win an APO T-Shirt! Send us your set up and we might include it in our Image Gallery!

Ashbury’s Rapid Product Development Center working with Nemesis Arms have engineered the SABER® Push Button Adjustable Hybrid (PBA-H) folding stock for use on the Vanquish multi-caliber take-down rifle. The Vanquish will now be available with the SABER® PBA-H ergonomically adjustable shoulder stock as an OEM accessory from Nemesis Arms. The PBA-H provides users with adjustable cheek piece height, vertical recoil pad placement and length of pull, all with no tools! The adjustable field Monopod is interchangeable with the standard Butt Hook (not shown). This unique rifle platform breaks down and fits into a day pack and provides sub-MOA accuracy after repeated disassembly and re-assembly! Kitted with a quality suppressor and RUAG SWISS-P Sub-Sonic .308 Win ammunition, this rifle is truly amazing!

Ashbury was pleased to host a visit Thursday from Congressman Robert Hurt of Virginia’s 5th District. Congressman Hurt and his professional staff were briefed by Ashbury’s management team and employee’s on a variety of company programs ranging from emergency preparedness and disaster response, to current deliveries of combat equipment to the US Army and our expanding engineering Rapid Product Development Center.

The Congressman showed sincere interest and concern about the critical role that small business plays in providing quality jobs and healthcare in today’s challenging economy. Further, we were able to highlight our company’s contributions to our nations defense and on-going support of America’s Warfighters. Our sincerest appreciation is extended to Congressman Hurt for his visit. May God Bless Our Great Nation!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've just got our heads above water from attending our most successful SHOT Show ever! We had the opportunity to see many old friends, and make a few new ones! We would like to especially thank members of the media and press that visited our shooting point at Media Day at the Range and our booth. We really appreciate your interest in our products! We appreciated all the nice folks who took the time to visit with us at the Show.

For those of you that did not get the opportunity to attend the SHOT Show, or might like to check out some of the APO media coverage here’s a consolidated media list. Pictures and individual video’s from the 2012 SHOT Show can be found on our homepage in the image and video galleries. Please enjoy the 2012 SHOT Show Wrap-Up Video!

Every year we meet some great new people at the SHOT Show, this year one of the standouts was Barbara Eldredge. Barbara attended Media Day at the Range as a member of the Press and struck up a conversation with us about product engineering and design. We discovered during our conversation and interview that she had no experience shooting a rifle, so we remedied that most quick by getting her up to the shooting bench on the firing line. The lady has some skills, and we hope she’s able to get out to the shooting range more in the future.

We’ve re-printed her blog post from Core77.com with permission. Copyright 2012 Core77.com – Barbra Eldredge. Keep an eye out for our APO SHOT Show Wrap-Up next week. NSSF did a great job on this years exhibition.

SHOT Show 2012: APO’s Custom Firearms

Gear heads love to mod their cars and shooting sports aficionados love to mod their guns. It makes sense then that Ashbury Precision Ordnance (APO) developed a unique modular firearm that enables user customization and changeability. Their SABER-FORSST Modular Rifle Chassis System lets one choose between interchangeable options for the gun’s shoulder stock, center, and barrel/forend while sporting rails that accommodate non-proprietary accessories like sights.

I had the opportunity to fire one of the newest incarnations of the system, the ASW50. “ASW” stands for Asymmetric Warrior—asymmetric war is the kind of conflict where the combatants are not equal in resources and military power. Think guerrilla warfare. Think insurgency. The ASW50 is a long-range “precision tactical rifle” with manageable recoil and an easy trigger. It may look a little imposing, but with this rifle I was able to hit a spade-shaped target 300 yards away (and I’m no crack shot).

More interestingly, APO’s parent company Ashbury International runs a Rapid Product Development Center that helps users bring customization to a whole new level. Firearm components, just like many other industrial products, are CAD drawn and CNC produced. If I had a brilliant idea for a new trigger mechanism or a maybe bump-firing butt-stock, I can send my sketch and concept to Ashbury’s RPDC and have it made into a reality. I spotted several companies at SHOT that performed CNC machining or metal injection molding but Ashbury’s was the only one that offered to manufacture products without pre-made CAD renderings.

At long last we’ve launched the new, and yes greatly improved Ashbury Precision Ordnance Mfg website (www.AshburyPrecisionOrdnance.com). Thank you for your patience. Our new website focuses on our firearms manufacturing business unit where we plan to be very active in the commercial shooting sports market in 2012 and beyond specializing in precision long range rifles. We still have some sections of the APO website under development so you’ll see improvements and additions weekly. We look forward to interacting with the shooting sports community and customers through our Blog and Social Media channels. We would like to thank the many professionals in the firearms, manufacturing and shooting sports industry that have provided us with their guidance, technical support and wisdom. APO looks forward to sustaining your trust and confidence, and earning it from our many new customers!

Obviously there is no better time to launch this site than during the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Media Day at the Range was an outstanding success, and the first day of the show was wicked busy! We are meeting tons of new people and appreciate your interest in our products. Our new HUNTER chassis and soon to be released Modular Hunting Rifles are getting alot of attention. We are astounded with the great reception our new ASG Airsoft Sniper Rifle is receiving here at the SHOT Show. Check out this video interview we did yesterday at the show! The ASW338LM is truly the “wicked stick”! More to come from the 2012 SHOT Show.