Thoughts on the 408 cheytac sniper round

[Gm weatherby man]

Thought I throw this in there to see your opinions . 8)

 

[Guy Miner]

Shot one a few years ago. The owner purchased his Windrunner .408 with the idea of using it for long-range elk hunting. He's a one heck of a marksman with considerable disposable income.

We set up at 500 yards, the farthest we could use at that particular rifle range. Without ever having touched that rifle before I missed the 3" bull once, by a smidge, and hit it twice. Terrific rifle! Lots of power, recoil really wasn't bad. We were prone, with the rifle on a bipod. The muzzle brake worked superbly with the straight - line stock to limit recoil and muzzle rise. Very impressive. Very expensive. As I recall it was something like a 420 grain bullet at 3,000 fps - or something like that. I don't really remember for sure. The bullets were impressive as all get out - lathe turned, and sharply pointed. Very interesting cartridge and rifle.

I think though, that he got his elk with something far more mundane, like a .300 mag of some sort.

Beats me. Anyway - there's my three-shots worth of experience with the .408 CheyTac.

Guy

 

[SJB358]

Like Guy mentioned, I got to fire some of our 408's back in 2003. We got them on an experimental basis for our snipers, but I was lucky enough to shoot them a fair bit. Never really shot paper with them, but I shot steel out to 1500 with them pretty easily. Again, I am not a Sniper by any stretch, but those rifles were well built and just plain accurate. I guess they are better than a 50BMG and carrie further, with more accuracy. I am sure it is splitting hairs a bit, but they are awesome. Our guys recorded some impressive shots with them in 2004 in Iraq. Scotty

 

[Antelope_Sniper]

Poor selection of hunting bullets.

I would buy one unless I intended to learn how to swage my own bullets.

 

[Gm weatherby man]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: , qaote a sniper rifle.