........................Baltz...............You cut 4" of barrel off a 300 Winny????? You bad boy you! :lol: :lol: :lol: That`s ok though, you`re not losing hardly anything! You just need to experiment as much as possible to find some very accurate loadings.............With a 180 gr. bullet, your velocity with 80.0 grains of H-1000 with your 20" tube, I`ll guess to be at about 2950 fps...........I`ve always said that in most cases, a 15 fps. to 30 fps. loss in velocity, for every inch of reduced barrel length, is about right on!..........The chrony results from my 300 WSM 16.5" er shorty barrel also back that up! In my case, depending on the loads, only about a 3.5 to a 4.5% in overall loss from a full length 24". Your percentage of loss should be even lower!...........Also! You may want to try perhaps a little faster burner than H-1000, using less grains while maintaining about the same velocity; like some Rel 19, some 4350, or some IMR 4007. May work better in burning more efficiently in that shorter barrel..........I am really looking forward to getting my hands on some of that new Rel #17 which you may also want to try! Not available yet but in the 300 WSM`s anyway, it is suppose to out perform all others with approx. the same burn rate and be extremely accurate as well.............baltz526":1hf49eit said:
when the atec failed, i was thinking exactly along the same lines. but the $300 additional dollars it would have cost at the time was a deal breaker. it is on it's way to simmons for a new replacement. i might burn some plastic money to get a new scope. signature select burris 3-12x44 matte ballistic plex, or a zeiss mc conquest 3.5-10x44 I think most of us here have had some kind of experience similar to yours. Second tier scope on a rifle with first tier recoil.....and the recoil won!! :? How many rounds on that .300 mag did it take before the scope failed?
