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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 149348" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Wildcat</p><p>I would suggest that you get a Savage FT/R for F-class and not use the 7AM for that. F-Class is a high volume, rapid fire competition and I do not think running 22 rounds of 105 grains of powder each down a barrel in 30 minutes is a good idea. The entire course consists of nearly 60 rounds of timed fire and I believe your barrel will be ruined on the first day. That is why I bought the 40X in 308 - the 308 barrel will take that kind of abuse. You should ask Kirby about that particular point.</p><p></p><p>For shooting varmint out to 2K you should contact Richard Graves concerning his new bullets. That would be the way to go in my opinion. As I said, for elk I am happy with the old style.</p><p></p><p>If you really just want to shoot varmints then maybe the scope will be OK. I spent some amount of time last Fall looking through my 8-32X-56mm NXS at a meadow that was about 2000 -2500 yards away. I tried to imagine seeing a rock chuck as a first step and then trying to judge all of the factors that would be necessary to make the shot. The people who do this stuff are way better than me. What intrigues me is that a rock chuck is only a little smaller than the kill zone of a deer. If you can't connect with the first round on a rock chuck then you can't connect on a deer. That pretty much tells me what my limits are on deer hunting.</p><p></p><p>At 2K there is no difference between a launch velocity of 3300 fps and 3400 fps in my opinion. It is all about the accuracy with which you judge distance and wind. The latter being the most unpredictable. Even on a windless day you will have convection currents. I see no reason you cannot get 3400 out of your gun if you ask Kirby for advice and take his advice. I do not believe you will get 3400 out of what you have specified. Sending Kirby a bunch of componnets and telling him to screw them together is a bad idea. Talk to Kirby offline and I think you will have a very slightly different list of components and the gun will perform at 2K (at a slow rate of fire).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 149348, member: 8"] Wildcat I would suggest that you get a Savage FT/R for F-class and not use the 7AM for that. F-Class is a high volume, rapid fire competition and I do not think running 22 rounds of 105 grains of powder each down a barrel in 30 minutes is a good idea. The entire course consists of nearly 60 rounds of timed fire and I believe your barrel will be ruined on the first day. That is why I bought the 40X in 308 - the 308 barrel will take that kind of abuse. You should ask Kirby about that particular point. For shooting varmint out to 2K you should contact Richard Graves concerning his new bullets. That would be the way to go in my opinion. As I said, for elk I am happy with the old style. If you really just want to shoot varmints then maybe the scope will be OK. I spent some amount of time last Fall looking through my 8-32X-56mm NXS at a meadow that was about 2000 -2500 yards away. I tried to imagine seeing a rock chuck as a first step and then trying to judge all of the factors that would be necessary to make the shot. The people who do this stuff are way better than me. What intrigues me is that a rock chuck is only a little smaller than the kill zone of a deer. If you can't connect with the first round on a rock chuck then you can't connect on a deer. That pretty much tells me what my limits are on deer hunting. At 2K there is no difference between a launch velocity of 3300 fps and 3400 fps in my opinion. It is all about the accuracy with which you judge distance and wind. The latter being the most unpredictable. Even on a windless day you will have convection currents. I see no reason you cannot get 3400 out of your gun if you ask Kirby for advice and take his advice. I do not believe you will get 3400 out of what you have specified. Sending Kirby a bunch of componnets and telling him to screw them together is a bad idea. Talk to Kirby offline and I think you will have a very slightly different list of components and the gun will perform at 2K (at a slow rate of fire). [/QUOTE]
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