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<blockquote data-quote="Long Time Long Ranger" data-source="post: 606506" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>The weather has been very windy for several days and not conducive for testing long range loads. Today it is 20-30 mph steady with gusts over 50. Saturday evening it dropped to 5-10 mph before dark and I shot some 100 yard groups to test some H-1000 loads against some Retumbo loads. As has been my history with this cartridge Retumbo continued to give the best velocity/pressure ratios. This rifle is no different with Retumbo shooting on average 75-100 fps faster with maximum loads. With heavy bullets H-1000 is a little fast burning for this cartridge with the slower burning Retumbo providing the best results. As many of you know I have spent quite a lot of time with the 300 RUM introduced in 1999 since late 1998 and have quite an extensive amount of loading data on it and several of the wildcats off it.</p><p> </p><p>After testing several powders and loads with this rifle the best load so far with the 210 grain Berger bullet is 92 grains of retumbo, fed 215 match primer, with an OAL of 3.760 inches providing a velocity of 3170 fps on average. This load has maintained .25-.35 moa accuracy out of this rifle to 600 yards. When the wind settles I will shoot targets to 1000 yards. The secant ogive on the Berger bullets provide great ballistic coefficients however are critical with seating depth in different rifles. Most times seating depth must be tweaked in each rifle to provide best results. In other words going from 1" groups at 100 yards to .25" groups with a little tweaking of seating depth. 100 yard groups Saturday were excellent and I will be posting those when I get them downloaded.</p><p> </p><p>As I continue to test this rifle the primary factor that continues to impress me is the long range accuracy Mcmillan was able to achieve with this rifle in a 7 3/4 pound package. Exceptional engineering to take out ounces wherever they could while maintaining a serious long range rifle in a large magnum cartridge that has very light recoil while shooting heavy bullets. Recoil is a complete non-factor while shooting this rifle. I can hold the rifle lightly and focus on the target with no concern of recoil. Little engineering marvels like that show a quality built rifle with quite a bit of thought process worked into the design. I am a hunter and that is my priority hunting all over North America every year. I have done this for many years and as the years go by my priorities get more refined. Bottom line though is a rifle capable of extreme long range accuracy that is light enough for me to backpack and carry all day with very light recoil allowing me to shoot comfortabley in any position. The Mcmillan EOL Outdoorsman rifle provides all those critical elements for succesful hunting. </p><p> </p><p>The NP3 coating on the action provides easy functioning in any extreme climate or hunting conditions and I can field strip the bolt easily while out hunting if needed to clean debri or change a firing pin. They thought of about everything with this hunting rifle and it has been a pleasure to shoot it and hunt with it. </p><p> </p><p>I will post more targets as soon as the wind settles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Long Time Long Ranger, post: 606506, member: 505"] The weather has been very windy for several days and not conducive for testing long range loads. Today it is 20-30 mph steady with gusts over 50. Saturday evening it dropped to 5-10 mph before dark and I shot some 100 yard groups to test some H-1000 loads against some Retumbo loads. As has been my history with this cartridge Retumbo continued to give the best velocity/pressure ratios. This rifle is no different with Retumbo shooting on average 75-100 fps faster with maximum loads. With heavy bullets H-1000 is a little fast burning for this cartridge with the slower burning Retumbo providing the best results. As many of you know I have spent quite a lot of time with the 300 RUM introduced in 1999 since late 1998 and have quite an extensive amount of loading data on it and several of the wildcats off it. After testing several powders and loads with this rifle the best load so far with the 210 grain Berger bullet is 92 grains of retumbo, fed 215 match primer, with an OAL of 3.760 inches providing a velocity of 3170 fps on average. This load has maintained .25-.35 moa accuracy out of this rifle to 600 yards. When the wind settles I will shoot targets to 1000 yards. The secant ogive on the Berger bullets provide great ballistic coefficients however are critical with seating depth in different rifles. Most times seating depth must be tweaked in each rifle to provide best results. In other words going from 1" groups at 100 yards to .25" groups with a little tweaking of seating depth. 100 yard groups Saturday were excellent and I will be posting those when I get them downloaded. As I continue to test this rifle the primary factor that continues to impress me is the long range accuracy Mcmillan was able to achieve with this rifle in a 7 3/4 pound package. Exceptional engineering to take out ounces wherever they could while maintaining a serious long range rifle in a large magnum cartridge that has very light recoil while shooting heavy bullets. Recoil is a complete non-factor while shooting this rifle. I can hold the rifle lightly and focus on the target with no concern of recoil. Little engineering marvels like that show a quality built rifle with quite a bit of thought process worked into the design. I am a hunter and that is my priority hunting all over North America every year. I have done this for many years and as the years go by my priorities get more refined. Bottom line though is a rifle capable of extreme long range accuracy that is light enough for me to backpack and carry all day with very light recoil allowing me to shoot comfortabley in any position. The Mcmillan EOL Outdoorsman rifle provides all those critical elements for succesful hunting. The NP3 coating on the action provides easy functioning in any extreme climate or hunting conditions and I can field strip the bolt easily while out hunting if needed to clean debri or change a firing pin. They thought of about everything with this hunting rifle and it has been a pleasure to shoot it and hunt with it. I will post more targets as soon as the wind settles. [/QUOTE]
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