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    Advice please on my finicky .308...

    If your using any quality bullet manufactured by sierra, hornady, nosler the tolerance on the ogive is acceptable. That why I said you want to leave it a close to the lands as possible without jamming. Leave far enough away so as to compensate for some of the natural fluctuation in bullet...
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    Advice please on my finicky .308...

    Regarding seating depth: there is an optimal depth. You need to seet the bullet such that your arent jamming the bullet into the lands and your not way away from the lands. I would suggest fireforming all your brass, that is to fire any old load in the gun to fit the brass to the dimensions to...
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    .308 SMK Report on Texas White Tail

    Ah nice, bullet cross sections are always interesting. Does anyone have one of the Hornady SST Line? Those are what I have been havin' alot of luck with lately, maybe someone can save me the effort of putting one on the chop saw And poor POP. I don't think he is a moron, in fact he raises a...
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    .308 SMK Report on Texas White Tail

    I am new to the forums and figured this was as good a place as any to say hi. I have only been into the longrange varminting/paper punching scene for maybe 5 years now. Up here in New York we don't have a many big game shots much beyond 50-200 yards in most realistic hunting situations in the...
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    rifle caliber

    I'd opt for a 223 Remington: Quiet, almost no recoil and its plenty of gun to go out to 350 yards for coyote. If you go the HBAR AR-15 route or the bolt gun you can get plenty of cheap milsurp ball ammo thats fine for punchin holes in yotes and leavin the pelts in good shape. Or if you wanna...
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    Base & Rings for Rem LTR

    hehe and I hope you remember to bring your sunglasses to the range, as that 20" barrel has a 6 foot muzzle flash in front of it on the 308win and the 300 SAUM.
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    Base & Rings for Rem LTR

    If you want high quality and you dont mind waiting, TSR Rings and bases are the same quality as the Badger Ord at alot less. Problem is you usually need to wait a few weeks to get them anwyays. Here is a link to their stuff: http://www.tacticalprecision.com/ I use the one piece steel base with...
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