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338... a revisit on a specific build.
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<blockquote data-quote="Kristopher Megahan" data-source="post: 1562430" data-attributes="member: 108902"><p>I bought a silencerco Hybrid 46 and used it on my 300WM, which I shoot 110 gr GMX's out of (result of an experiment to find best groupings and the light bullets just worked best, I cant tell you if the GMX stays together or not because I have never recovered a bullet) I have a about 4 kills btn 2-300 yards with this rifle and the animals never took a step. I use it of course on my 458 SOCOM AR also (giant heavy beast). I dont flinch with either of these, but I practice a lot.</p><p></p><p>My 6.5 Norma was the first rifle I ever built and my only bolt build to date (built it in 2008). It has 26 inch barrel and is about 9-10 lbs all in, it is long and I don,t take it on hunts where I will be hiking a lot (I use a 16" 308 encore (suppressed)as my backpack rifle). Here is thing, I dont suppress the 6.5. For whatever reason, the 6.5 shoots everything well, any weight, any factory load, any handload. I cannot make it shoot over 1 moa and many loads are ragged hole at 100. Another quirk it has is the groups dont spread at 200, 1" at 100 is 1" at two. The barrel is a match stainless Shilen Heavy Sporter built on a Savage 110 LA with a riflebasix trigger. <strong>I am scared to cut and thread it as I don't want to lose the magic. </strong>It is about as long as I would want any rifle to be.</p><p></p><p>Which brings up philosophy on builds. A member posted earlier that he builds around a bullet. My experience started as loading to get crappy old rifles to shoot good, then I started to build good rifles. In my mind, I build a rifle and then figure out what it likes. This has been an wonderful conversation and I appreciate all of the input so far. I will post a summary in bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kristopher Megahan, post: 1562430, member: 108902"] I bought a silencerco Hybrid 46 and used it on my 300WM, which I shoot 110 gr GMX's out of (result of an experiment to find best groupings and the light bullets just worked best, I cant tell you if the GMX stays together or not because I have never recovered a bullet) I have a about 4 kills btn 2-300 yards with this rifle and the animals never took a step. I use it of course on my 458 SOCOM AR also (giant heavy beast). I dont flinch with either of these, but I practice a lot. My 6.5 Norma was the first rifle I ever built and my only bolt build to date (built it in 2008). It has 26 inch barrel and is about 9-10 lbs all in, it is long and I don,t take it on hunts where I will be hiking a lot (I use a 16" 308 encore (suppressed)as my backpack rifle). Here is thing, I dont suppress the 6.5. For whatever reason, the 6.5 shoots everything well, any weight, any factory load, any handload. I cannot make it shoot over 1 moa and many loads are ragged hole at 100. Another quirk it has is the groups dont spread at 200, 1" at 100 is 1" at two. The barrel is a match stainless Shilen Heavy Sporter built on a Savage 110 LA with a riflebasix trigger. [B]I am scared to cut and thread it as I don't want to lose the magic. [/B]It is about as long as I would want any rifle to be. Which brings up philosophy on builds. A member posted earlier that he builds around a bullet. My experience started as loading to get crappy old rifles to shoot good, then I started to build good rifles. In my mind, I build a rifle and then figure out what it likes. This has been an wonderful conversation and I appreciate all of the input so far. I will post a summary in bit. [/QUOTE]
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