We were just going through some of our pictures from our promotional video when we were working with our PSR submission rifle for US SOCOM PSR Contract back from 2009 and 2010. Here are some of our favorite pics from those days. We spent a lot of time with the PGM 338 PSR rifle for the development of the submission version that we had provided as a joint effort between Drake Associates and ATK Lake City.
The PGM 338LM PSR submission rifle used a 27 and 23″ barrel for both 250 and 300Gr. Lapua ammunition. Suppressor was developed by AWC as the PGM Thundertrap Titanium. Special Cerakote Flat Dark Earth coating had IR reflective properties and made weapon virtually disappear when viewed through night vision devices. Also a special bottom 6 oclock picitinny rail was made here in the states by Laure Tactical for the use of the Larue LT706 QD Harris Bipod assembly. We were very pleased with the picitinny rail equipment that was manufactured for us by Larue Tactical, we even used their LT111 OBR scope QD Scope rings set for this rifle system. It was the 34mm set that we had chosen for use the Schmidt Bender PMII 5-25×56 with P4 Fine reticle.
The PGM 338LMPSR tactical sniper rifle when fired at the 1500m targets was printing SUB MOA with both the rifle in the suppressed and un-suppressed configurations. We happened to like both performance on the 250gr and 300gr ammunition supplied by Nammo / Lapua. What was quite notable was that the 250gr allowed for the required threshold of 700 ft lbs of energy on target at 1500m.
Even though the the PGM338LM was not selected as the final US SOCOM PSR contract winner, we did have the ability to examine all rifles that were submitted. This was a good thing for the team at Drake, as we were able to then hand pick and choose high quality vendors to supply us with equipment and components on the later developed DRAKE STALKER Tier 1 Sniper weapon systems.
