Recent content by 30-GT

That's awesome! Congrats to your son. In Texas we'd call that mulely a Big 6!!!

That's an awesome group your buddy shot! I know my gun is capable. The odd shots are definitely me. Will make the adjustments with the rifle placement on the bags. The weather here today was pretty breezy and in the 50°s. I started shooting around 11am and finished around 3pm. I tried to keep...

Thanks Roughrice, will re-torque the scope. I did use a Caldwell tactical deadshot bag set. It was covered up by the towel. Probably not the best thing to use but it's all I had. I was definitely inconsistent in my shouldering of the rifle. Never really thought about it, for 100yrds shots I...

Finally able to get out to the deer lease shooting range to sight my rifle in. Took the first shot at 50yrds to see if it was on paper and it was a little bit high and rt. Was not able to shoot 100yrds. Had to drag the shooting bench back 10yards just to get a 95yard target otherwise I would be...

These ended up having the fastest average.

Alright my friends. Back from the ranch. Was able to quail hunt a little bit and shot a variety of bullets out of my new Tikka. Now I was only testing for muzzle velocity out of my gun at my hunting elevation for data to send off to Leupold for the CDS (custom dial system). I will still have to...

🤣 It's what they teach at Storm Trooper Shooting School.

My experience also. I am somewhat a Hornady superfan. So I am not knocking them or SST's at all. I choose those bullets for my kids to use for precisely that effect. I wanted the animal down quick so they could be successful with one shot. Just moving in a different direction now.

I wouldn't say that I'm hell bent but I'll give a little back story of why I have chosen a 7mm08 and my wanting to use a copper mono at 400yards. In 2012 I bought some land in the middle of nowhere. When my kids started hunting I was looking for a caliber they could handle at 10yrs old for WT...

Great idea to split the shooting up. The weather app is showing a 30° temp swing each day at the ranch so I I'll have at least 3 mornings of trigger time.

Trying to find a copper mono that will preform at 400yards. But will use whatever works. I was wanting to test the Nosler 120's just forgot to order those. Maybe on the next trip. On the shooting I'll definitely be mindful of the barrel temp.

Ok guys , again I want to thank everyone for all the info and encouragement. I'm soaking it all in. I now have gathered 10 boxes of ammo. I am heading out to the ranch Saturday morning. I'll shoot 3 to 4 bullets out of each box. So 30 or 40 shots. My question is how long should I wait between...

Do you have venmo ?

🤣, a few did. It's all good. I appreciate all of the responses and info/links. But my main focus rt is to find a 400yrd factory loaded bullet out of my Tikka. This all started with me seeing deer way out past the feeder milling around and chasing does. Big deer! My ol 30-30 just wasn't going to...

The cx does have the heat shield tip. But it also has different shaped cannelures and one or two less of them. Which is supposed to increase the distance to where it falls below 2000fps. Increasing your effective hunting distance buy 150 to 200 yards.