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<blockquote data-quote="Desert Fox" data-source="post: 128411" data-attributes="member: 396"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>It just makes me feel god to know that sombody is still shooting an old war horse like the 300Win mag. I've got a Sako L691 with a 25" Obermeyer barrel that I hope to make my first 1000yd kill on a deer with.</p><p>Basicaly the same load as yours. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p>JD, I was thinking the same thing. I have two rifle chambered for the venerable 300. My Sako AIII and my premier hunting rig, which is the Winchester Model 70 Laredo LRH. My longest kill with it was a mule deer at 638 yards. Tried 1098 yards on a bobcat once but manage only to scared the bedevil out of him /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif A great fun though for my buddy who spotted for me. I missed the fun part since I was the one doing the shooting and did not see the bullet impact due to recoil. According to my buddy, the bullet landed about five inches from the bobcat's rearend. The mirage got me on that one. It was in the middle of a hot summer day as I recalled and I was still learning how to read conditions. Looking at 14X magnification, the bobcat seems to float on air. I aimed at the cat's nose and the 190 grain Hornady landed on the it's tailend. My buddy told me that the cat dropped the squirrel from his mouth and took-off running. To this day, my buddy still considered it my best shot ever on a game, and he had witnessed quite a few from me, even though it was a missed. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desert Fox, post: 128411, member: 396"] [ QUOTE ] It just makes me feel god to know that sombody is still shooting an old war horse like the 300Win mag. I've got a Sako L691 with a 25" Obermeyer barrel that I hope to make my first 1000yd kill on a deer with. Basicaly the same load as yours. [/ QUOTE ] JD, I was thinking the same thing. I have two rifle chambered for the venerable 300. My Sako AIII and my premier hunting rig, which is the Winchester Model 70 Laredo LRH. My longest kill with it was a mule deer at 638 yards. Tried 1098 yards on a bobcat once but manage only to scared the bedevil out of him [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] A great fun though for my buddy who spotted for me. I missed the fun part since I was the one doing the shooting and did not see the bullet impact due to recoil. According to my buddy, the bullet landed about five inches from the bobcat's rearend. The mirage got me on that one. It was in the middle of a hot summer day as I recalled and I was still learning how to read conditions. Looking at 14X magnification, the bobcat seems to float on air. I aimed at the cat's nose and the 190 grain Hornady landed on the it's tailend. My buddy told me that the cat dropped the squirrel from his mouth and took-off running. To this day, my buddy still considered it my best shot ever on a game, and he had witnessed quite a few from me, even though it was a missed. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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