Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Hunting
Long Range Hunting & Shooting
Ruger American Gen 2 vs Ruger American Gen 2 Rancher
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Ronald W Schaefer" data-source="post: 3033117" data-attributes="member: 109378"><p>I'm loving the 7mm-08 for kids, ladies and first timers. Plenty of Jack to put down animals and low recoil and muzzle blast. I have Browing A-Bolt Micro Medallion that I won at a Ducks Unlimited convention when I was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Gerogia. It weighs about 6-6.5 pounds about 7.5 with optics and 20" barrel. My boyz (and student newbies) started using it in 1991 and have killed about 70 animals, 1 shot, DRT kills. It is very handy with that 20" pipe...After the boys grew up and traded up to "blingy" new cartridges, I started using it several years ago myself. Out of a gun safe(s) full of every caliber you can imagine and that little stick (I call it my "pocket rifle") became my "go to" for deer and hogs out of stands in south Texas. A few years ago I developed a load for my wife's Weatherby Camila in 7mm-08 (20" BBL) and she smoked the plains game in Africa with it. 145 gr Barnes LRX, 46 gr RL-17, CCI BR-2 Primer, Lapua brass. Turns out three other rifles like that load and it really upped the ante in the "pocket rifle". Personally, I'd go with the 20" barrel and forgo the can. If you are enamored with the can, I might cut to 18" but no shorter--I've seen barrels cut from 24" to 18 inches with only about 40 FPS loss-- a well-known local gunsmith and custom rifle builder did the work for his brother so he could use a short can on hogs out of his UTV. I actually shot that rifle over the chrony and got 2770 with factory loads with 140 gr Nosler partition bullet. He attributes the performance to the efficiency of the .308 parent case and burn rate of modern powders suitable for that caliber. IMO, the 20" barrel is already pretty handy, and I have killed an elk at 500 yds and mule deer at 475 with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ronald W Schaefer, post: 3033117, member: 109378"] I'm loving the 7mm-08 for kids, ladies and first timers. Plenty of Jack to put down animals and low recoil and muzzle blast. I have Browing A-Bolt Micro Medallion that I won at a Ducks Unlimited convention when I was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Gerogia. It weighs about 6-6.5 pounds about 7.5 with optics and 20" barrel. My boyz (and student newbies) started using it in 1991 and have killed about 70 animals, 1 shot, DRT kills. It is very handy with that 20" pipe...After the boys grew up and traded up to "blingy" new cartridges, I started using it several years ago myself. Out of a gun safe(s) full of every caliber you can imagine and that little stick (I call it my "pocket rifle") became my "go to" for deer and hogs out of stands in south Texas. A few years ago I developed a load for my wife's Weatherby Camila in 7mm-08 (20" BBL) and she smoked the plains game in Africa with it. 145 gr Barnes LRX, 46 gr RL-17, CCI BR-2 Primer, Lapua brass. Turns out three other rifles like that load and it really upped the ante in the "pocket rifle". Personally, I'd go with the 20" barrel and forgo the can. If you are enamored with the can, I might cut to 18" but no shorter--I've seen barrels cut from 24" to 18 inches with only about 40 FPS loss-- a well-known local gunsmith and custom rifle builder did the work for his brother so he could use a short can on hogs out of his UTV. I actually shot that rifle over the chrony and got 2770 with factory loads with 140 gr Nosler partition bullet. He attributes the performance to the efficiency of the .308 parent case and burn rate of modern powders suitable for that caliber. IMO, the 20" barrel is already pretty handy, and I have killed an elk at 500 yds and mule deer at 475 with it. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Hunting
Long Range Hunting & Shooting
Ruger American Gen 2 vs Ruger American Gen 2 Rancher
Top