Yeah its gone The Big 8

[SJB358]

Nice! Sounds like you made a great purchase.

I am with you, waiting on elk season!

 

[Razorbacker]

Spending money on the "new to me" 8mm Rem Mag has been fun. First trip to the range today and what fun it was.

Loaded up some 220 gr Hornady bullets. Clocked them at 3000 FPS, but I need to back off a touch on the powder as I had some difficult extraction of the fired cases.

Flipped the scope tonight to a Leupold 4.5-14 x 40 with the CDS dial. Will email a contact at Leupold and get a CDS dial made up for some Barnes 200 TSX which per the previous owner, this rifle shoot very well. The 200 gr Barnes should move along just under 3000 FPS.

When is elk season?

Not sure why but I've never had more fun with a rifle since I got my 8 mag. How did those 220 Hornadys group and what bullets were they specifically? I really want to use 220 in mine if I can get them to group.

 

[orchemo]

Took the big 8 out to the range again.

Thanks to OU812, I figured that I was not sizing the new brass before the original reloading. I knew that I should, but just over looked that step with this new brass.

Eric

 

[bullet]

Yes, that could cause a problem, glad you got it straighten out.