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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1240594" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Mine are pretty boring. Both are model 70's, one the extreme weather and the other an older 90's era classic stainless.</p><p></p><p>At some point in the next year or so I'm going to rebarrel the EW with a 28" slightly heavier weight Benchmark Stainless/Fluted barrel and put it in an old Fajen pepper grey laminate stock that I picked up last year from a guy cleaning out a warehouse he'd bought. It's the winchester "roll over" design similar to the M40 and like the rest of mine it'll have a Northwest Precision Slotted Muzzle Brake installed.</p><p></p><p>I've been trying to decide if I was going to go with another WM or Rum and while I love my 300 Rum's there's not enough gain to really make it worth the difference in the cost of brass and extra powder. If Lapua made 300 Rum brass I might rethink it but for a gain of only a couple of hundred FPS it's not worth the cost or hassle of doing so.</p><p></p><p>With the heavier and longer bullets that keep coming out I think it makes more sense to use a Rum length magbox and action for the WM.</p><p></p><p>If I were going to do a full custom I'd definitely start the project with the Rum action and build around it and go with at least a 1:9.5 twist at a minimum and more likely a 1:8.5 or 1:9. In the next 3 years I expect we'll see at least a half dozen new offerings of .30 cal bullets in the 220-240gr range and several new monometal bullets in the .200-220gr weight range.</p><p></p><p>Might as well get ahead of the curve instead of looking back five years from now wishing I'd gone with a faster twist and longer max OAL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1240594, member: 30902"] Mine are pretty boring. Both are model 70's, one the extreme weather and the other an older 90's era classic stainless. At some point in the next year or so I'm going to rebarrel the EW with a 28" slightly heavier weight Benchmark Stainless/Fluted barrel and put it in an old Fajen pepper grey laminate stock that I picked up last year from a guy cleaning out a warehouse he'd bought. It's the winchester "roll over" design similar to the M40 and like the rest of mine it'll have a Northwest Precision Slotted Muzzle Brake installed. I've been trying to decide if I was going to go with another WM or Rum and while I love my 300 Rum's there's not enough gain to really make it worth the difference in the cost of brass and extra powder. If Lapua made 300 Rum brass I might rethink it but for a gain of only a couple of hundred FPS it's not worth the cost or hassle of doing so. With the heavier and longer bullets that keep coming out I think it makes more sense to use a Rum length magbox and action for the WM. If I were going to do a full custom I'd definitely start the project with the Rum action and build around it and go with at least a 1:9.5 twist at a minimum and more likely a 1:8.5 or 1:9. In the next 3 years I expect we'll see at least a half dozen new offerings of .30 cal bullets in the 220-240gr range and several new monometal bullets in the .200-220gr weight range. Might as well get ahead of the curve instead of looking back five years from now wishing I'd gone with a faster twist and longer max OAL. [/QUOTE]
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