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Your Best Elk Rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="COBrad" data-source="post: 32107" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>My elk rifle is a .300 Jarrett. It was built by Steve Branham, Bear Arms, of Jackson, SC. It consists of a trued Rem 700 LA with Sako extractor, 24" Pac Nor #4 taper barrel with brake, McMillan pillar bedded stock in an old Griffen and Howe configuration, that I no longer see listed by them, tuned trigger set at 2.5#, topped with an IOR 2.5x10 MP8. Set up this way it weighs 8.5 lbs. According to the load data sent with the rifle i'm getting a hair over 3000 fps with 200 gr. sierra gamekings and 78 gr RL22. This is a max load, a bit hot when air temps are over 70. It shoots more accurately than I can, as far as I can tell. When shooting at my best with this rifle I shoot around .5 at 100 yds with 200 gr Matchkings. Game kings shoot consistently at 1". I'm going to Accubonds this year as the gamekings regularly blow up, leaving no exit wound on shots around 100 yds, the range at which most of my elk seem to show up. I shot one last year at 300 or so. Good bullet performance there with the gameking. I also shot a turkey right at 300 yds with this rifle. Hit him at the base of the neck, intentionally. Don't ask about the luck factor on that shot please! With practice, I'm comfortable shooting elk out to 500 yds with this rifle. I've shot seven elk so far with this rifle, and 37 overall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="COBrad, post: 32107, member: 1940"] My elk rifle is a .300 Jarrett. It was built by Steve Branham, Bear Arms, of Jackson, SC. It consists of a trued Rem 700 LA with Sako extractor, 24" Pac Nor #4 taper barrel with brake, McMillan pillar bedded stock in an old Griffen and Howe configuration, that I no longer see listed by them, tuned trigger set at 2.5#, topped with an IOR 2.5x10 MP8. Set up this way it weighs 8.5 lbs. According to the load data sent with the rifle i'm getting a hair over 3000 fps with 200 gr. sierra gamekings and 78 gr RL22. This is a max load, a bit hot when air temps are over 70. It shoots more accurately than I can, as far as I can tell. When shooting at my best with this rifle I shoot around .5 at 100 yds with 200 gr Matchkings. Game kings shoot consistently at 1". I'm going to Accubonds this year as the gamekings regularly blow up, leaving no exit wound on shots around 100 yds, the range at which most of my elk seem to show up. I shot one last year at 300 or so. Good bullet performance there with the gameking. I also shot a turkey right at 300 yds with this rifle. Hit him at the base of the neck, intentionally. Don't ask about the luck factor on that shot please! With practice, I'm comfortable shooting elk out to 500 yds with this rifle. I've shot seven elk so far with this rifle, and 37 overall. [/QUOTE]
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