Whether you’re shooting long-range centerfire or poking at steel from inside a few hundred yards in rimfire competition, upgrading your rifle with a chassis system is a great way to increase your fun factor while potentially decreasing your group sizes.
The main benefit of a chassis over a standard rifle stock is its adaptability. A well-thought-out chassis system offers a host of ergonomic adjustments that make a rifle fit better and accessory attachment points that allow shooting more efficiently. While the OEM market is catching up on some of these points by offering semi-custom chassis features, an aftermarket chassis is the way to go for no-holds-barred performance.
While there’s no shortage of excellent options from the established brands in the chassis market, two newcomers caught our attention with their mixture of novel features. Let’s look at the freshman efforts from a couple of new names in precision rifle chassis, both hailing from northern Europe.
SPUHR SICS
A Swedish company, Spuhr is wellknown in the U.S. for its high-end optic mounts and rings. The SICS, or Spuhr Ideal Chassis System, grew from the mind of one of the com-pany’s owners, Håkan Spuhr. Spuhr wanted a chassis for his personal use and couldn’t find one on the market that he liked. So Spuhr, a machinist, decided to make his own and spent his own time working in his home shop on the project. When it was done, his business partner, Ulf Nelsson, saw it and immediately recognized Spuhr’s garage creation as a serious competitor in the chassis market and the company decided to bring it to market.
SICS: KILLER FEATURE
One of the main goals Spuhr had when setting out on this project was to offer an easy way for the shooter to adjust the length-of-pull on the fly. “The length from the
