From 2009 to 2013, the US SOCOM placed a sollicitation to replace all the bolt-action sniper rifles in use at the time. While the Remington Modular Sniper Rifle (MSR) was awarded the contract under the MK21 PSR designation, a few other well known manufacturers contended for the win. Unsurprisingly, Accuracy International was one of them. The British icon was already supplying both Delta Force and Devgroup with their AW Magnum rifles, among others.
For the PSR program AI entered the entirely new rifle they’ve working on for the UKSF : the AX338. Most precision rifle nerds like me are already familliar with the Pale Brown AXMC with a skeleton stock that competed in the later years of the program.
But their very first entry was based on the, at the time, new AX338. Here comes a pre-2014 AX338 with a flutted barrel. The scope is more than likely the Schmidt & Bender 5-25×56 PMII mounted on a Larue LT112. And contrary to the final PSR entry and Delta Force’s own AXs, it features the AI Dark Earth colour instead of Pale Brown.
