Recent content by teddy12b

Wow, lots of new stuff since the last time I looked at this thread. As far as the Remington bolt handle goes, I tend to go with the Savage crowd and there's usually some taunting of the Remington guys all in good fun and I haven't heard of the 700's having any widespread problem with bolt...

On the bright side of that, there's a lot of people who are very loyal to whatever manufacturer they prefer for very good reasons. We live in a time when you can buy a rifle from just abuot any of the big manufacturers and walk away with an outstanding quality firearm. The confusion you're...

My responses in Blue. I don't think we're too far off here.

I didn't take your comments as bashing savage by any means. There are plenty of guys online who do bash savage though and they do it based on their price and not their performance. I just wanted to be clear to you that savage rifles aren't of poor quality despite what you may have read...

I'm right there with you on this. I've got a 110FP in 30-06 and I shoot the same targets at 1,000 yards as the guys showing up with a AI costing 5 times the money. It blows my mind that people downplay Savage rifles because they cost less. The most accurate out of the box rifle on the market...

First of all, you're on the right track with the 30-06. Sounds like you're looking for a "do all" rifle and the 30-06 certainly fits the bill. Factory loads range from 150gr soft points for deer, 168gr match ammo for precision long range, to 220gr soft points for anything that could endanger...

I stumbled across one of these rifles today over lunch in a gun shop that I never would have suspected as have a cutting edge newly released rifle like this. From what he had on the rifle it's an 18" threaded with a 1 in 10" twist. I'm in the same boat and was looking for a heavy barreled 308...

Wow, that's a nice setup and some outstanding shooting. I've been thinking about buying one of these rifles for a while now and have struggled to find both accuracy based range reports and a commonly accepted list of components that deliver on the accuracy. Thanks for sharing the information...

I've had some experience with the buckmaster 6-18. Mine was a regular duplex reticle and was bought before they brought out the same model with a mil-dot reticle. I really liked the scope. My only grip was that I thought the 6x was a little high for the low end of the power spread. I sold it...

There are cases where shots are fired from far enough away that animals will freeze, or jog a short distance and then stop and in those cases the horus reticle would shine. If you don't like it that's fine, but that's really got nothing to do with what this thread is about.

Barret has about the only one I've seen that's gotten anything close to a good review.

Thanks Bruce, Could you recommend a scope with the Horus reticle? I've been looking at them and it doesn't seem like there's a single option out there for under $1,000, and few under $2,000. I'm not afraid to spend the money, if I know I'm going to be getting something good. If I'm...

Last night I just finished the Magpul "Art of the Precision Rifle" dvd and the instructor had them using the Horus reticle. I've been shooting long range for a couple of years now and I've used several types of scopes, but I've never really spent the big bucks on a scope. For example, the most...

Using winchester brass with remington primers I found great accuracy using 24.5gr of varget under a 69gr matchking. When Varget became hard to find I tried out some Ramshot TAC and I used winchester brass with winchester primers, with 23.0gr of TAC. I use the max overall length I can...

Personally I think it's a great idea and its exactly what I do. Why get beat up with heavy recoil and pay big prices for ammo. The 223 can be shot all day long and lots of lessons on the wind can be learned. I like the sierra 69gr matchking, and lately I've been running a lot of Ramshot Tac...