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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2202536" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>The factory loaded ammo is dismal (as has been said, with handloads it does anything a .30-06 does in the real world). My dad likes to tell a story about his great uncle, and his oddball humour, who owned a milsurp 8x57, nobody around here handloaded back then. This uncle was an exceptionally good shot, known to have made a number of kills over 400 yards back when anything over 200 was a long shot. Anyways, they asked him for details on one of these long shots of his and the story he told was "well, got it all lined up, pulled the trigger...put down the gun, lit up a cigarette, took a few good drags, then picked the gun back up and saw the impact through the scope". Exaggeration of course but the factory ammo for any of those European calibers is truly anemic haha.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2202536, member: 109862"] The factory loaded ammo is dismal (as has been said, with handloads it does anything a .30-06 does in the real world). My dad likes to tell a story about his great uncle, and his oddball humour, who owned a milsurp 8x57, nobody around here handloaded back then. This uncle was an exceptionally good shot, known to have made a number of kills over 400 yards back when anything over 200 was a long shot. Anyways, they asked him for details on one of these long shots of his and the story he told was “well, got it all lined up, pulled the trigger...put down the gun, lit up a cigarette, took a few good drags, then picked the gun back up and saw the impact through the scope”. Exaggeration of course but the factory ammo for any of those European calibers is truly anemic haha. [/QUOTE]
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