accurate rifle quest finally realized ( with pics )

[olympicmotors]

After about 7 years and many dollars spent I have finally got an accurate long range
rifle.

After sinking many hours and dollars into my Ruger hawkeye 300 win mag, I finally just bought an accurized Remington 700 from hillcountryrifles about 9 months ago. It is a 300 win mag also . I am super happy with it. It obviously shoots way better than my ability.

I went to the range yesterday and shot both rifles at 200 yards . the remington shot several , honest 1/2 minute of angle , groups.

The Ruger still has some problems as you can see.

the Remington is a ( " harvester " model from hill country rifles ) 700 with talley rings and a 4.5 x 14 Zeiss conquest with the rapid z reticle.

The Ruger is a model 77 hawkeye that has been glass bedded, free floated, chamber tightened, and trigger adjusted to 2.5 lbs. stock ruger rings, with a nikon prostaff 3 x 9 scope.

I have been reading this forum a lot, and watching tbosaurusrex videos on you tube and have learned a lot. I know most of you can probably shoot way better than this , but for me, I was very happy to finally shoot this well.

I will keep practicing and probably keep working with my ruger until I get it to shoot at least a little better.

Hope you like the pics

 

[ohiohunter]

Congratulations, but that prostaff scope isn't helping that ruger out at all. At 200yds, I'm sure the parallax error is good for close to 1/2moa.

 

[olympicmotors]

Yeah you are definitely right about the prostaff. What I really want is a nightforce for my Remington, then put the zeiss on the ruger.

 

[Barrelnut]

I have an older version of the same Zeiss on a 25-06. It is very good for quicker 300-450 yards shots on the 25-06. Like it a lot. But with the range you could get out of the 300 mag, I agree about the Nightforce. You could also look at Vortex as well.

Nice looking rifle.

 

[olympicmotors]

I have an older version of the same Zeiss on a 25-06. It is very good for quicker 300-450 yards shots on the 25-06. Like it a lot. But with the range you could get out of the 300 mag, I agree about the Nightforce. You could also look at Vortex as well.

Nice looking rifle.

Thanks. Yeah the 300 can Definitely shoot farther than I can, at least right now.

I really got fortunate on the rifle from hill country. It is the low end harvester . They put this one on their website as shooting 1/10 inch groups. That is better than most of their high end rifles, so I called them first thing the next morning and bought it. And it does it with factory nosler accubond.

The ruger probably has a new barrel in its future when I can afford it.