I use a lot of scopes, from NF, Trijicon, Athlon, Arken, S&B, SWFA, Leupold, Zeiss, Signtron and probably a couple others I’m forgetting. My favorite western open country scope is my Trijicon 10 Mile 3-18. I have one on my Mashburn and one on a Montana 7 WSM. So far my favorite eastern deer...
I also have a little Kimber 338 Fed. Right now I use plain old Speer 200’s since it only been used for deer to this point but it’s a sleeper of a little cartridge. Seems easy to make good accurate ammo as well.
I’ve used Grand a bit in one of my 7 WSMs and my Mashburn. Seems like a great powder so far and I was liking it enough to grab an 8lber of it after trying it. It is nice in it seems to make about the same speeds as H1000 and is less money per pound which never hurts.
Was talking with an old Marine buddy yesterday. His dad made him up a custom 280 years ago, and I mentioned his dad took much use of another rifle in his arsenal other than maybe a smaller varmint rifle and maybe a big bore for African stuff, since the 280 works so well for about everything in...
I’d think that’d work well. Really anything that’ll show a contrast and not reflect a bunch of light. All this talk has me wanting to get the 50 out to shoot some.
I wouldn't sweat the length of the bullet as much as the bearing surface of it. Chances are, it's less than other normal bullets like the 150 BT's and similar.