The Dirty Thirty!

[Ernie]

This is BCG 308 Winchester XP-100, using a Remington Take-Off 308 Winchester barrel chopped to 15.8" Holland's Radial Baffle Brake, Leupold Mark IV 4.5-15, McMillan stock, and a factory trigger.

Video Below: Factory TAP with 168 A-Max.
Reloads: 1x fired Hornady Match 308 Win brass, CCI primer, H-4895, 155 A-Max at 2720 fps.
Groups were at 100 yards.

The last 3-shot group was by Dan Ekstrom, with his MagnetoSpeed attached and the group size was close to mine. This XP-100 shoots great!
Next up is doing some drop confirmations at distance.
It will be used for my personal enjoyment and hunting, but will also be a loaner XP for WY-SHOT.
Video:

 

[Rooterpig]

Sweet looking setup and great shooting Ernie.

 

[Ernie]

Sweet looking setup and great shooting Ernie.

Thanks. Looking forward to the drop confirmations. That's when I really get a feel for the gun.

 

[Bucklowery]

That is very nice groups. That's is a bit better than my 20" 308 rifle at a mild 2555 with the 168g a max. Your guns are always very interesting

Thanks

Buck

 

[Ol' Red]

Nice pistol and great shooting Ernie.

 

[Goose71]

Always the coolest toys.awesome

 

[Grizzly60]

Sweet

 

[Ol' Red]

Always the coolest toys.awesome

I enjoy my contender with switch out barrels, but Ernie's toys just make a guy a little jealous.

 

[Ernie]

Sunday afternoon I went out with a couple of guys from church. One needed to do load development and chronographing and the other one wanted me to chronograph a couple of guns with my Labradar.
I wanted to do some drop confirmations with the Dirty Thirty/308 Winchester. We had winds from the northwest, which was a quartering headwind for us. I was shooting to the north. After the guys got all of their stuff done, Glenn spotted for me while I started doing some drop confirmations. The quartering headwind noticeably pushed my bullets down as I extended distances, but I still had fun.
Even at 300 yards it took me more elevation to hit my target, then it should've. By 400 yards I had a sense of how much I should add at 500 yards. At 500 yards my first shot at the 10 inch diamond target was close to a center hit.

The 5 inch square target to the right was hit by a guy shooting a 7mm SAUM rifle with 195 Berger's.
I did drop confirmations out to 800 yards, but with wind continuing to pick up, I stopped there. We shot Glenn's 41 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver, and had some fun. I decided I wanted to shoot one more shot with my 308 Winchester XP. I picked the upper right small dot on the big rectangular target at 500 yards.

It always feels good, when you just have a sense of what it should be and you are right, and the shot is very close to where you were aiming at a mid-range distance.
One of our second year shooters, is going to be using this in a couple of weeks for WY-SHOT.

 

[Rooterpig]

Spectacular!!!

 

[LkeAF]

That thing is a beauty!!