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<blockquote data-quote="Unofficial Gun Addict (UGA)" data-source="post: 994363" data-attributes="member: 81139"><p>I concur about shooting one first. About a month ago I was at the range and the only other guy there had a carbon fiber 300 wm. I knew him from a dairy my wife used to do book-keeping for and he was the vet. He started showing me his new gun and at first... I thought it was a 22-250 or maybe a 223. Then he handed me the rifle which weighed nothing and I looked at the stamp... 300 winchester magnum. I was pretty stunned. I looked at the tiny little barrel and then at the muzzle. Heck... It was hard to even imagine that this thin little barrel could handle the abuse a 300 wm could dish out. I think he said on the whole package... He was in over 5k. I was impressed, but I have to admit... That gun beat the crap outta that guy while we were there shooting... And the worse thing was... He walked away disappointed because his groups were downright pathetic... And he said this was the second time he'd been out trying to find a cartridge it liked. He had 4 boxes of different ammo this trip and I'm not sure how many he had tried during the previous trip. I can tell you when he left... He still had some ammo remaining in the boxes... But he could hardly lift his hand to shake mine goodbye.</p><p></p><p>I was also shooting my stock browning abolt 300 wm with boss and my groups were all .76 and less at 100. I was testing loads and put more rounds downrange than he did, and I was feeling fine.</p><p></p><p>This said... Regardless of whether your friends believe that brakes are noisy... Or for wimps... I'm now of a firm belief that I'd never own a rifle of that little weight... In a 300 mag, without a brake. No freaking way. I wondered on the way home if the guy's groups were horrid because the gun was inaccurate, or because he was flinching like any sane man would... And perhaps closing his eyes. Just what I was thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Unofficial Gun Addict (UGA), post: 994363, member: 81139"] I concur about shooting one first. About a month ago I was at the range and the only other guy there had a carbon fiber 300 wm. I knew him from a dairy my wife used to do book-keeping for and he was the vet. He started showing me his new gun and at first... I thought it was a 22-250 or maybe a 223. Then he handed me the rifle which weighed nothing and I looked at the stamp... 300 winchester magnum. I was pretty stunned. I looked at the tiny little barrel and then at the muzzle. Heck... It was hard to even imagine that this thin little barrel could handle the abuse a 300 wm could dish out. I think he said on the whole package... He was in over 5k. I was impressed, but I have to admit... That gun beat the crap outta that guy while we were there shooting... And the worse thing was... He walked away disappointed because his groups were downright pathetic... And he said this was the second time he'd been out trying to find a cartridge it liked. He had 4 boxes of different ammo this trip and I'm not sure how many he had tried during the previous trip. I can tell you when he left... He still had some ammo remaining in the boxes... But he could hardly lift his hand to shake mine goodbye. I was also shooting my stock browning abolt 300 wm with boss and my groups were all .76 and less at 100. I was testing loads and put more rounds downrange than he did, and I was feeling fine. This said... Regardless of whether your friends believe that brakes are noisy... Or for wimps... I'm now of a firm belief that I'd never own a rifle of that little weight... In a 300 mag, without a brake. No freaking way. I wondered on the way home if the guy's groups were horrid because the gun was inaccurate, or because he was flinching like any sane man would... And perhaps closing his eyes. Just what I was thinking. [/QUOTE]
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