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Beautiful early spring in the Interior and I finally got out to burn some powder with a friend.
After playing scope hokey-pokey, I zeroed my Browning X-Bolt with a Zeiss Conquest 3-9x40...plain jane Federal Blue Box 130gr SPs print stupid tight groups. I need to just buy a pallet of it. Not my favorite bullet, but it will do for anything I might shoot at with a .270....and besides, $18.99 a box? I can't hardly load them for that!
Did some work with my son's new 7-08 Ruger American...finally. Federal Fusion 140grs. print nice and reliably at 1.25" with a Vortex 2.5-8x32. I'm thinking a little better rest and better glass and this little rifle will shine. I tried some Barnes 120gr TTSX and some Nosler BTs- still needs work but a little softer 140gr might be the right answer over a lighter bullet going faster. This little rifle is a total hoot, like a really loud .22- almost no recoil. As much as I like the big guns...I can see me finishing my hunting career with a really classy 7-08 like a Kimber SuperAmerica.
I also blew the dirt out of my much loved Nosler M48 .300WSM. Nice to know that after being drug around all winter through all kinds of stuff you can drop 3 rounds in the mag and print a perfectly triangular 7/8" group, centered precisely 1.6" high at 100 yards. That'll put me on at 200yds and 7" low at 300yds. I can hold the horizontal wire on a caribou's backline and pull the trigger at 350yds.
My buddy worked with his two .338WMs... He shot 60 rounds....by the end I could call the flinches before I even looked through the spotter.
Good news is, we're ready to hit it again for spring bears.
After playing scope hokey-pokey, I zeroed my Browning X-Bolt with a Zeiss Conquest 3-9x40...plain jane Federal Blue Box 130gr SPs print stupid tight groups. I need to just buy a pallet of it. Not my favorite bullet, but it will do for anything I might shoot at with a .270....and besides, $18.99 a box? I can't hardly load them for that!
Did some work with my son's new 7-08 Ruger American...finally. Federal Fusion 140grs. print nice and reliably at 1.25" with a Vortex 2.5-8x32. I'm thinking a little better rest and better glass and this little rifle will shine. I tried some Barnes 120gr TTSX and some Nosler BTs- still needs work but a little softer 140gr might be the right answer over a lighter bullet going faster. This little rifle is a total hoot, like a really loud .22- almost no recoil. As much as I like the big guns...I can see me finishing my hunting career with a really classy 7-08 like a Kimber SuperAmerica.
I also blew the dirt out of my much loved Nosler M48 .300WSM. Nice to know that after being drug around all winter through all kinds of stuff you can drop 3 rounds in the mag and print a perfectly triangular 7/8" group, centered precisely 1.6" high at 100 yards. That'll put me on at 200yds and 7" low at 300yds. I can hold the horizontal wire on a caribou's backline and pull the trigger at 350yds.
My buddy worked with his two .338WMs... He shot 60 rounds....by the end I could call the flinches before I even looked through the spotter.
Good news is, we're ready to hit it again for spring bears.
