entoptics
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Keep trying to convince myself to rebarrel this sucker, and perhaps toss it in a Mg Element 4.0 chassis, but pretty much every time I take it out, it does something like it did today while I was doing a little powder testing of some new lots of Retumbo and H1000...
Began life as a lightly used Savage 110 Long Range Hunter in 300WM. Shot the OEM barrel out (~1500 rounds), so I rebarreled it a few years ago myself with a 24", heavy sporter, 1:10, Shilen Select stainless from Northland Shooter Supply, but otherwise totally stock. I now have 914 chronograph entries in my spreadsheet's Shilen tab, and it probably has close to 1800 down range, as I'm well into my 5th firing of the 300 pieces of Norma brass I bought somewhere around the 300 round mark in the life of the Shilen.
I've scoped the throat, and it looks like alligator skin, and my distance to the lands has moved nearly 0.1" for a 208 gr ELD.
Kinda crazy to think about. 1800 rounds. That's about 20 lbs of H1000 barbequeing it's way down the pipe.
Also kinda crazy that the OEM savage action/stock has about 3000 rounds on it, with nothing but a new ejector spring or two.
I haven't babied it either. Full tilt loads of a 208 gr ELD trucking along at about 2875 fps, and though I rarely run it blazing hot, I typically shoot 3-4 rounds as fast as I can shoot them carefully, which results in "hot potato" barrel temps, then let it cool to "warmish" before moving on to the next string.
Not too bad for a $1000 rifle. Particularly one that will flatten any land animal in North America or Europe out to 500 yds or so, and is capable of hitting a car door at a mile 9 outa 10 times.
Began life as a lightly used Savage 110 Long Range Hunter in 300WM. Shot the OEM barrel out (~1500 rounds), so I rebarreled it a few years ago myself with a 24", heavy sporter, 1:10, Shilen Select stainless from Northland Shooter Supply, but otherwise totally stock. I now have 914 chronograph entries in my spreadsheet's Shilen tab, and it probably has close to 1800 down range, as I'm well into my 5th firing of the 300 pieces of Norma brass I bought somewhere around the 300 round mark in the life of the Shilen.
I've scoped the throat, and it looks like alligator skin, and my distance to the lands has moved nearly 0.1" for a 208 gr ELD.
Kinda crazy to think about. 1800 rounds. That's about 20 lbs of H1000 barbequeing it's way down the pipe.
Also kinda crazy that the OEM savage action/stock has about 3000 rounds on it, with nothing but a new ejector spring or two.
I haven't babied it either. Full tilt loads of a 208 gr ELD trucking along at about 2875 fps, and though I rarely run it blazing hot, I typically shoot 3-4 rounds as fast as I can shoot them carefully, which results in "hot potato" barrel temps, then let it cool to "warmish" before moving on to the next string.
Not too bad for a $1000 rifle. Particularly one that will flatten any land animal in North America or Europe out to 500 yds or so, and is capable of hitting a car door at a mile 9 outa 10 times.
