7mm-08 savage driving tacks!

cool story- interesting. an good on the ol plain jane bulk build :D

loaded up some of the remaining 162 SST an Varget, min loads for Gongs this week....

lookin at gettin the interlock 139gr for gonging an havin a more similiar trajectory to the Ppsn for hunting practise- :)

*edit- good little gong ring between showers today, 270m, 330 an 400m, with the 162sst- workin out the burris scope hash, but the online calculator is spot on i rrekon
 
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I guess i should follow up on how i made out during deer season with the 7-08.

I didn't end up even taking a shot with it. Didn't see any deer for the morning/afternoon but had a few does come out into the field just about 45 minutes before legal shooting time. I drew a doe tag and it's much easier to fill the freezer with a nice farm doe than a ghost like woods buck. They were way further away than i was willing to shoot, skylined and in the direction of some houses, so i just had to wait and hope they came my direction and gave me a chance at a shot.

They did move away from the skylline/houses, but the rolling little hills of the field had them where i could just see ears or backs moving around and still too far, but any time i got ready in case one popped out closer i found that more and more i could barely see them through my scope. I could see them with the binoculars, i could see them with my bare eyes (though not as well as with the binoculars).

So i found out one of the other downsides of the cheapo weaver combo scopes, crappy light transmission. When it gets to low light conditions i might as well be guessing at where the actual deer is seeing how many more deer sightings are at first and last light it killed that rifle for the season.

So for the next morning i brought my .308 with me and i figured if i didn't see anything by the afternoon i could swap the cope out on the 7mm-08, get it sighted in and be back in business for the late afternoon, but i ended up into the action right at first light. Bumped the first 3 does before the sun was up, got caught out of position but 3 or 4 more just at legal shooting time because i was late getting to my spot after being held up by the ones i bumped but was able to get a shot on a good sized doe at 35-40 yards and it was all over and the hard work began.

So now the weaver will get relegated to the box i have some old random scopes in, good enough for plinking at the range, works as a backup in a pinch, or give to someone new who doesn't have anything else and the 7-08 will get a bushnell elite 3200 on it to get sighted in for next year.

On the plus side, i can mark where the weaver is on my bore sighter before i take it off to make the process a little easier the next time around.
 
I have owned 5, 7-08 rifles, and a friend hunts with one a lot. I have yet to see one that was
really a "poor" shooter. My 788 Remington was a very accurate piece, as were 2 different M700's.

My buddy has a Mossberg [entry level rifle], but it will put 3 - 140 Partitions under a quarter at
100M.
I never shot a single head of game with a 7-08, though. However, I have taken a trainload of
game with it's ballistic twin, the 7x57, of which I presently have 2, one is a Remington 700 Classic,
the other a recently acquired #1AB Ruger.

I cannot fault most Savage rifles in the accuracy department. Had a model 11 in 22-250. It was
a zinger. With loads it liked, it shot 3/8 moa out to 400M. Finally washed the throat out of it.

It now wears a 40X takeoff, chambered in 225 Winchester :) ( Thanks, Guntech)Still a tack-driver.
Regards, Dave.
 
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