1319 yards with the yea'ol' 308-3 shot group

[7 num num]

I shot this group last spring with a older custom 308 I have. The only thing I had to show relative group size was the paint can in the back of the trike.

I had shot, hit the gong, shot twice more and decided to go see how I was doing. I didnt think it was going to be that good.


GUN
Remington 700 action-trued
1987 Gun Craft tube
.334 neck (.308 Winchester)
Bedded in the original Remington Stock. Barrel channel inletted.
Scope-(believe it or not) Bushnell 10x 3200 elite


LOAD
Varget-??gr.
Federal match primers
155gr. Palma
Lapua brass.
2911 fps.


I don't know if I could produce this group again but..I did it once.

Again there will be some dis-believers but that is the way it is.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

Very cool. Must have put a real smile on your face.

 

[Kevan]

Thats great shooting and very believeable.

 

[7 num num]

Thanks. That word! I can never spell it right! It was smiles are around. Dad had to come out to see it for himself.

 

[Toolman]

Great shooting.

 

[CyaN1de]

But a .308 can't shoot out that far....bullets tumble...accuracy goes for sh!t......just ask any of the armchair snipers....they'll tell you.

Nice group....proof that the tried and true .308 can go the distance.

 

[ShaunM]

i have the bushnell elite 10x 3200.... I'm amazed you SAW the target at that distance let alone got a group like that. Awsome shooting

 

[Until the Angels Fall]

Nice job

 

[2fat2fly]

Wow, incredible shooting.
Just for interest, how much terminal energy would the round have had?

 

[Shrek]

Attaboy!

 

[ShaunM]

Wow, incredible shooting.
Just for interest, how much terminal energy would the round have had?

with my load, (2900 fps, 168gr amax) mine would travel at 1189 feet/sec, with 527ft/lbs at 1300 yrds. Just don't think I can put them in the same place he did. My speed/weight is pretty standard for .308's so he'd be somewhere not too far off from that.

at first i was gonna reply with 'Enough' .... then thought that might be rude. But the answer in the end is still, enough I'd never volunteer to try catching the thing, that's for sure.

 

[stevesummit]

good to see more long range stuff hitting the pages on here We need more guys shooting past what people think these rounds can do

 

[RememberTheSomme]

Great shooting at the sound barrier. Pushing the envelope for the cartridge/bullet combo? Like i alway's said ,"The .308 DOES IT ALL!"

 

[jtoews80]

Very impressive. I agree, I'm not volanteering to catch that thing @ the sound barrier either.

 

[tigrr]

Nice shooting!
Ya know once you've started shooting long range, it becomes addictive.

At first I thought 1000 yards was way out there. 2 years later I was touching a target at a mile.

 

[7 num num]

i have the bushnell elite 10x 3200.... I'm amazed you SAW the target at that distance let alone got a group like that. Awsome shooting

At that range you hold center mass. The hairs still done cover the plate-14x21inchs.

 

[7 num num]

Wow, incredible shooting.
Just for interest, how much terminal energy would the round have had?

At that range if I can remember?? Exbal was saying 325 ft/lbs of energy at just under the speed of sound.

 

[LongBomber]

Wow, incredible shooting.
Just for interest, how much terminal energy would the round have had?

To put it into persective it has more than a 9mm handgun does at the muzzle! The handgun runs about 300ft-ibs at the muzzle.

 

[hunter7mmRM]

nice! i hope friend and i can shoot some groups like that even at seven hundred coming up summer! wow that makes me want to shoot my gong again!

 

[RememberTheSomme]

Very impressive. I agree, I'm not volanteering to catch that thing @ the sound barrier either.

LOL.