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16.95 cents per round. That's at least half-price over retail. Good job in hunting-down such a bargain..... .. .. $100 (590 rounds total)...
Oh, man! I'm droolin' for that one. I'm lefthanded. I'd have gone with the 6.5 Creed had I been standing there, but you've not made a poor choice. Very easy to change the barrel. In my microscopic opinion, your money was very well-spent...Picked up a Savage 110 Tactical LH .308 today.
6.5 Creedmore is the latest designer gun rage! It will go the way of the "Short- Magnums! Hundreds of bullet choices for the .30 calibers, not so much for the Creedmoor.Oh, man! I'm droolin' for that one. I'd have gone with the 6.5 Creed had I been standing there, but you've not made a poor choice. Very easy to change the barrel. In my opinion, money well-spent...
Yes it is!Oh, man! I'm droolin' for that one. I'm lefthanded. I'd have gone with the 6.5 Creed had I been standing there, but you've not made a poor choice. Very easy to change the barrel. In my microscopic opinion, your money was very well-spent...
Is that a commonly-available MagPul magazine?
I gotta disagree, albeit most respectfully. I believe the 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 mm bullets are widely used in target shooting because of the reduced recoil. I built a .30-caliber target rifle and even though it weighed nineteen pounds, the recoil after dozens of rounds would always get to me. I built it as a .30 because I just did not know that target rifles are supposed to be low-recoiling affairs. I gave that rifle away and now am building a 6.5 in my mind. It's going to be expensive because it's a mildcat, but I want to do it. The action, barrel and stock is going to be around $2500; then we have to go through the shark waters of having the dies, headspace gauges and reamer made. Those are going to be around $800 at best. The killer on those is the time required to have them made. I waited a year to have Lee Precision make some dies because they manufacture the stuff that sells at retail before they set aside machine time and manpower to do custom stuff. I've done two mildcats; you'd think I'd learn. No; I didn't...6.5 Creedmoor is the latest designer gun rage! It will go the way of the Short Magnums! Hundreds of bullet choices for the .30 calibers; not so much for the Creedmoor.
Picked up a Savage 110 Tactical LH .308 today. Can't wait to hit the desert Thursday and try out some long-range hand loads. Also ordered a Tanker style muzzle brake. Should be fun.
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A 168-grain match bullet will easily go 1000 yards. My concern when shooting very long range is the walking out and back to check the targets. I'd recommend the 175-grain Sierra MatchKing, with the mep-lats made uniform...How far are you shooting your 308? What bullets are you using?
Right now I will be shooting around 850 yards using Hornady and sierra Match bullets and I plan on trying some VLD's also.
I'd never let a fine rifle like that set for so long, even if I couldn't hit a pie plate at 50 yards with it. Please take it out and tell us how you did...Boy, this is firing me up. I have the Bergara Elite in 6.5 Creedmoor for over a year and haven't shot it yet.
Is there a target of standard size for 1000-yard shooting? Would a 10" target (which is one MOA at 1000) be too small to hit it often enough to forestall aggravation because you aren't hitting it very often?I hand load 175-grain Sierra Matchkings and hitting at 1000 has gotten pretty easy.
Is there a target of standard size for 1000-yard shooting? Would a 10" target (which is one MOA at 1000) be too small to hit it often enough to forestall aggravation because you aren't hitting it very often?