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<blockquote data-quote="elkcoast" data-source="post: 964659" data-attributes="member: 81207"><p>I know I'm seriously late to the party, hope I'm even later to my funeral, but here's my thoughts. I bought an 8mm mag soon after Remington put them in production, never did anything special to it but normal cleaning and care, and it has shot like a charm, 3/8" group at 100 last time. Factory loads SUCK so have to load your own, my choice is the Sierra 220 bt, been using H4831sc. Was at 81 grains but dropped it back to 80.9 and got 50 fps more and a tighter group. 5 shot average was 2978 with those, lowest at 2976. The Sierra tech has recommended trying reloader 22, says it has better accuracy and more speed but no one carries that around here lately. But I've hunted with this rifle for 35 years now, with a few years of trying others, only to come back to the 8. I have loaded some nosler 180ballistic tips too, 85 grains H4831sc, the chronographed at 3220. Only shot one muley with it, at 20 yards....too close, could put a softball through the hole, but he sure went down. Awesome gun. Sorry about the inaccuracy of some, dunno why it would do so poorly. Mine's been great, no heating problems either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elkcoast, post: 964659, member: 81207"] I know I'm seriously late to the party, hope I'm even later to my funeral, but here's my thoughts. I bought an 8mm mag soon after Remington put them in production, never did anything special to it but normal cleaning and care, and it has shot like a charm, 3/8" group at 100 last time. Factory loads SUCK so have to load your own, my choice is the Sierra 220 bt, been using H4831sc. Was at 81 grains but dropped it back to 80.9 and got 50 fps more and a tighter group. 5 shot average was 2978 with those, lowest at 2976. The Sierra tech has recommended trying reloader 22, says it has better accuracy and more speed but no one carries that around here lately. But I've hunted with this rifle for 35 years now, with a few years of trying others, only to come back to the 8. I have loaded some nosler 180ballistic tips too, 85 grains H4831sc, the chronographed at 3220. Only shot one muley with it, at 20 yards....too close, could put a softball through the hole, but he sure went down. Awesome gun. Sorry about the inaccuracy of some, dunno why it would do so poorly. Mine's been great, no heating problems either. [/QUOTE]
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