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Post by xphunter on Mar 19, 2012 8:37:15 GMT -5
Shot it out to 900 this past Thursday. Wind was up and gusty. Mirage made it where I couldn't see impacts at 1K. Got partially done with confirming drops. Need to find a calm day and get it ironed out some more. When the wind was highest I made hits from 500-900 yards (1-shot one hit). That was rewarding because the wind was gusting and changing. I didn't use a wind meter or check my dope for wind. Was trying to go by feel as a friend has encouraged me to do. That was the most rewarding part of the day. Didn't go down range to check targets and or to take groups shots-wasn't really shooting for groups as I was trying to get drops confirmed. Went through 50 rounds-Lot of fun.
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Post by Bill on Mar 20, 2012 6:19:03 GMT -5
Personally I think the wind meter gives a person a false sense of security and doesn't teach a person to learn to feel the wind. I might think I know what the wind is doing from the wind meter but I make more hits just shooting as compared to trying to use the wind meter. I was going to ask you Ernie, but where does the 6.5X47 drop below 900 ft lbs of energy or what range is what I should be asking. I know a lot of guys using that cartridge along with the .260 Rem and the 6.5 Creedmore and their all three almost duplicates of each other. I like the cartridge's but not sure they can provide me the energy I need at the range I want. Should work good out to 1000 for lope's but not sure they have it for the bigger Mule Deer. Should still be good to around 800 yds though.
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Post by Jack on Mar 20, 2012 7:45:49 GMT -5
I've played around with wind meters for long range shooting, but my experience hasn't been very good. At best,a wind meter only tells you the wind value at the shooters location; not at the target or in between.
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Post by xphunter on Mar 20, 2012 7:53:39 GMT -5
You were right on target. Right at 800 yards with a 4000 ft elevation, 130 Berger at 2838 fps from the muzzle. Didn't have this built for LR hunting. Had it built for LR shooting. I think the 7mm SAUM is where I would start for LR hunting that would include elk. Then the 7mm Dakota, then something based off of the 338 Lapua or Chey-Tac case. With the big boys I would not do a lot of practice with them once drops were confirmed. Do most of my practice with other cartridges, so as to save the throat of the barrel of the large capacity cartridge. If I had just one, then I would do all my practicing with it, and just re-barrel when needed.
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Post by xphunter on Mar 24, 2012 12:17:40 GMT -5
This past week stretched out to 1100 yards. Then shooting at a rock at 1674 yards-Lots of fun.
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Post by Bill on Mar 25, 2012 10:44:31 GMT -5
Making gravel is fun. ;D Probably one of the easiest things in the world to work with and plenty of the around most places. Dep-Don keeps talking bout doing it and little does he know he can do it already and just needs to try. Gets addicting don't it. I might have to make a trip to Mac's sometime here in the future and have him tear down my 7MM Rem Mag Sendero and square everything up. Probably will put on a muzzle break on and maybe a few other things like a jewel trigger and bed the stock as I am looking at a stock change on the Sendero to one of the H-S Precision adj butt and comb stocks. I love how those fit me. Might even look at something like Seb's Hammerhead wings a bit. Anyway good shooting and hope that gun proves to be what you were needing.
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Post by xphunter on Mar 27, 2012 14:01:34 GMT -5
Let me know when you plan to head this way. E
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Post by Bill on Apr 8, 2012 11:10:57 GMT -5
Well I picked up a H-S Precision stock for a long action yesterday so now I have a Rem 700 LA and a stock to go with it. Problem I have is the bolt is a .30-06 bolt face and it needs to be opened up to fit a Magnum bolt face if I use it to build my .338-.300 RUM. Shouldn't be hard to have done. I think I am going to follow through and do what I started to do last year. I traded Devon the owner of Sinarms a ton of .330 Dakota brass I had and did not need as a down payment on a barrel for this aciton. My intentions were to have a Savage barrel nut installed along with the new barrel and that way I could make a switch barrel gun out of it. This way as long as I stayed with the magnum bolt face cartridges I could switch it back and forth to other cartridges. What my thoughts are now to do is to also buy a magnum bolt from Remington and make it so I can switch it back and forth from say a .260 Rem to the .338. Might just make it a bit more versatile and a more fun gun to play with when I don't want to put up with the recoil of the .338 with the .300 grain SMK's. Something I have seen over the last few years is the fact that a Savage rifle will shoot. Even with a barrel that is rougher than a cob. I have been trying to figure out why as a Savage action isn't all that square unless you use a target action and even those I have seen a few that were not all that straight but still shot very well. So the only other thing I can think of is if the floating bolt head does not have all that much to do with it and if the barrels are not all that great then it can only be attributed to one thing and that is the barrel nut. I think it kind of works like a tensioned barrel. A few years back there were some benchrest shooters who too barrel and installed them and then threaded the barrel next to the actoin and then screwed a tube onto the threads and then threaded the muzzle and put a nut on that screwed into the tube and onto the barrel at the same time. This then stretched the barrel more or less or put tension on it which changed the harmonics of it. This held the barrel still and they shot better than they had prior to the tensioned tube. A friend of mine just had one done on his hunting rifle which is a .338/378 Wby. they turned down the barrel a couple thousands and put on the tube. Along with that they put some kind of chemical into the tube which kept the barrel inside cool and then put the nut on the muzzle. They have run some tests on this set up and accuracy has improved tremendously with very small groups which the nut on the barrel is also a Muzzle break but along with that they ran some tests on the barrel itself and with the chemical in it the barrel heats up very little during a 5 shot string. Even on a hot day. The company is claiming almost double the barrel life by doing this which is fantastic in itself. It does increase the diameter of the barrel a bit as the tube is straight so it is almost 1 3/16's all the way to the Muzzle but the wight only increases by a few ounces. Its not really all that expensive either as it only costs about the same amount as a new barrel but if it doubles the life span of the barrel it would be worth it if you shoot much. All very interesting. www.teludynetech.com/index.cfm
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Post by sebastian on Apr 17, 2012 13:08:29 GMT -5
E, the rifle looks good - but ask a replacement!!! How could someone weld the bolt handle on the wrong side!?? ;D
seb.
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