Got in my stand Sat. morning about 6 am. Around 8 am I had two small bucks come through. I thought I would see more deer but as luck would have it that was it until 11:45 am. Im kicked back in my ladderstand enjoying the beautiful leaves and all of a sudden there stands a big ol nasty coyote at...
My 7-08 will shoot just about anything I feed it. Im currently feeding it Varget and 140 gr Sierra Gameking bullets. I also have a REALLY good load with Big Game powder and a 150 gr NBT.
Right before the "chinademic" hit I found several pounds of Varget. While I really didn't need it at the time Im glad I bought it. Its as scarce as a pro-second amendment Bidenite at an NRA rally.
Ive never used 4350 in my 7-08 but Varget and Big Game powder with 150 gr NBT's, 139 gr SST's or 140 gr Sierra GK's shoot lights out. I see no reason to try anything else.
While many may say that IMR 7828 is temperature sensitive, and they may be the case in some applications but I have found right the opposite in my rifle. While I don't have chrono numbers this load shoots the same in 90 degree plus heat as it does at 40 degrees or less. It was a little rainy...
I started to get into the Enduron series of powder with the unobtanium Varget but with this news and Varget starting to show up a little Im glad I didn't change horses in midstream
Ive seen a few but the prices are, well, stupid high. I saw some CCI benchrest primers for roughly 165 per 1000.
At these prices I sure am glad I started putting primers back when Trump was President. Ive got thousands of primers.
Was in my local Wally World today and ran across 6-7 bottles of BH 209. 53 dollars for an 8oz bottle. That's 106 dollars per pound. Simply incredulous! Ive got a couple bottles left and when it's gone I'll go back to 777.
Well, I guess it's time to start buying up a few more boxes of my favorite bullets to add to my stash.
The only non-leaded bullets Ive tried were the TTSX. While they killed what I shot at, and I guess that's the end result, however, I do not like "non-leaded" bullets tho.
Ive got some Winchester and Federal primers from year 90, 91 and they all go bang when called on. They have of course been kept in a climate controlled environment. As others have said, if yours have keep cool and dry they are good to go.
Curiosity is not a bad a thing. Seeing that the 280 parent case is the 30.03 case, which is basically a 30.06, I was curious about making 280 brass out of 30.06 cases, wasn't hard.