Boring rifles out of Utah has been making waves as of late. They are custom-shop rifles and made to be accurate from jump. Utilizing a Kelbly’s action, our test sample came with a CF barrel that apparently is wrapped by the builder. This barrel is attractive and garnered opinions from the crew. Boring’s own muzzle device is used as well.
The Boring is a lightweight rifle that could easily be a modern hunting rifle. They decided to drop the barreled action into a Falkor ROC chassis, which was a brilliant move. The ROC in its mostly non-weight trim is very light and comfortable, and its recoil dynamics play well with the 6.5 chambering in a rifle that weighs 14 pounds with an optic.
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This is actually one of the more basic rifles in the group but it’s far from boring. And its performance says so.
I never saw it coming. The Boring Gamer rifle showed up ready for business. It boasts a carbon fiber-barrel (wrapped by Boring, according to them) with a heavy profile on a Kelbly’s Atlas Tactical action and with a Timney trigger. That’s a fairly common approach to building a medium-weight rifle. But in a brilliant move, the Boring people (pun intended) dropped everything inside a Falkor ROC chassis with just a little weight upfront and created something special. And you won’t know until you shoot it.
The recoil impulse is very linear, likely due to the chassis with some help from the brake. It feels extremely lightweight although it weighs 13.8 pounds with optic and sans the bipod. The action is smooth and tight, and well, it shoots—with two of us posting 0.305- and 0.32-inch groups. Interestingly, both excellent groups came in rounds 11 through 15 in our strings. So instead of opening up with high round counts on the CF barrel, it tightened up.
The Gamer rifle is rather simple and straightforward, too. There’s nothing flashy or attention grabbing, but it’s a good looking rifle—understated elegance, if you will. The chassis will let you add tons of weight if you want, but I see removing what little weight is there, adding a lightweight optic and hitting some NRL Hunter matches if not a few actual hunts. In fact, I could see it making a good speed goat rifle.The Boring Gamer, while custom-ish, is one of eight models the company offers with different fixings. They are more turn key than custom, which is almost the norm now. Solid performance and good enough looks, all packaged up just right, made the Boring number one hands down for each evaluator. Surprise, surprise: I never thought something so Boring could be Ballistic’s Best.
