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RIFLES

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The Warlord: Thompson/Center’s first-ever bolt action has now reached a peak of accuracy and tactical sophistication.

The Warlord carries a lifetime warranty and a one-half-MOA guarantee. The bottom left five-shot group with Federal 175-grain Gold Medal match ammo is about 0.40 inch.

Only four years have passed since the unveiling of Thompson/Center’s first bolt action, the Icon. After a century and a quarter of development, there is very little genuinely new about a turnbolt action. Certainly, that applies to the Icon, but T/C was able to utilize its expertise in close-tolerance machining to create a rigid, accuracy-enhancing action, and T/C was able to tap into, if not 125 years of development, at least recent developments in determining the features shooters were ...

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