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<blockquote data-quote="Canhunter35" data-source="post: 1371501" data-attributes="member: 101677"><p>I was thinking about your rifle and thought I would relate a story of one of mine own rifles.</p><p>I got a sako av chambered in 300wby from my dad, standard sporter barrel, nice laminate stock. The trigger is quite good in those sako so I lightened it and left that. Then I installed pillars, bedded it and free floated the barrel. The recoil was manageable with 150gr factory loads, the 180s were stiff and I wanted to shoot 212 eldx. So I installed a brake and a 20moa picatinny rail, I was putting on an old Zeiss scope with turrets but had a 1" tube and I'd ran out of elevation adjustment before so just installed the 20moa rail immediately. At that time, h1000 couldn't be found so I bought a can of imr 7977, found a load that shot .7-.8 Moa, but the velocity spread was terrible like 58fps or something. I had some imr 7828, made a load at same velocity and it had a velocity spread of 8fps. Except imr7828 is temp sensitive and I didn't want to chart the change in velocity...that's a lot of dope cards you need to carry. My loads were good to 400-500yds, maybe 600 if I pushed it., I've now got some h1000 and am gonna try maybe this weekend making a new load with a tighter es and sd on the velocity. Still won't be capable of 1200 yds shots, but maybe 700-800 yds if I get everything working good. Moral of the story: with factory ammo you need one that groups and shoots consistent velocity...that's hard to find. Not to mention everything else that goes into equipping a lr rig.</p><p>It's kind of long winded and apologize for that. Best of luck it's Lots of fun when that steel rings way out there!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canhunter35, post: 1371501, member: 101677"] I was thinking about your rifle and thought I would relate a story of one of mine own rifles. I got a sako av chambered in 300wby from my dad, standard sporter barrel, nice laminate stock. The trigger is quite good in those sako so I lightened it and left that. Then I installed pillars, bedded it and free floated the barrel. The recoil was manageable with 150gr factory loads, the 180s were stiff and I wanted to shoot 212 eldx. So I installed a brake and a 20moa picatinny rail, I was putting on an old Zeiss scope with turrets but had a 1” tube and I’d ran out of elevation adjustment before so just installed the 20moa rail immediately. At that time, h1000 couldn’t be found so I bought a can of imr 7977, found a load that shot .7-.8 Moa, but the velocity spread was terrible like 58fps or something. I had some imr 7828, made a load at same velocity and it had a velocity spread of 8fps. Except imr7828 is temp sensitive and I didn’t want to chart the change in velocity...that’s a lot of dope cards you need to carry. My loads were good to 400-500yds, maybe 600 if I pushed it., I’ve now got some h1000 and am gonna try maybe this weekend making a new load with a tighter es and sd on the velocity. Still won’t be capable of 1200 yds shots, but maybe 700-800 yds if I get everything working good. Moral of the story: with factory ammo you need one that groups and shoots consistent velocity...that’s hard to find. Not to mention everything else that goes into equipping a lr rig. It’s kind of long winded and apologize for that. Best of luck it’s Lots of fun when that steel rings way out there! [/QUOTE]
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