A screw cost me $70.00...aka: I'm ####ing stupid!
- Thread starter Wrong Way
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Sort of a hijack, but I Reloaded some 160's for my 7-08.
I used sierra game kings, IMR 4831, winchester brass and winchester primers.
(cant remember the grains of powder at the moment, its the middle load for 160grn in the hornady manual)
And they are shooting minute of moose at a hundred yards. I figured they would be good enough if I see a white tail worth dropping, and good enough for mooses.
Anybody have experience with sierra bullets in the 7o8 ?
I used sierra game kings, IMR 4831, winchester brass and winchester primers.
(cant remember the grains of powder at the moment, its the middle load for 160grn in the hornady manual)
And they are shooting minute of moose at a hundred yards. I figured they would be good enough if I see a white tail worth dropping, and good enough for mooses.
Anybody have experience with sierra bullets in the 7o8 ?
At least you still have the screw. I finally found a use for the $500 metal detector I bought off Ebay when I dropped a small metric takedown screw into the lawn.
After about 20 minutes of checking every beep in the lawn, I finally found the little bugger. Didn't think I was going to. Doing it after a recent reroof didn't help either.
After about 20 minutes of checking every beep in the lawn, I finally found the little bugger. Didn't think I was going to. Doing it after a recent reroof didn't help either.Wrong Way said:
Ryan
The Failsafe is an excellent Big Game bullet, they have tremendous penetration in large game. They are not required or recommended in smaller game like deer unless you are shooting very high velocities and want to avoid bullet blow ups at short range, they perform like the Barnes bullets and shoot very accurately if the gun likes them, they are a love or hate bullet either they shoot very well or very bad, they are a premium bullet all the same weather the gun likes them or not. Some of my guns have shot better with factory Failsafes than with my handloads, the only way to know is to try them, after you tighten the screws down
bigbull
Wrongway,
As gun lessons go, $70 is cheap. Loose screws happen and are the first place to check when things are going to crap. I just straightened out a couple rifles for friends, the only difference was that it was scope ring screws. Now, when a scope's innards get scrambled it takes a lot of shooting, checking, swapping etc just to identify the problem, which still isn't fixed. If you had to do all that with factory loads it can easily cost the difference between a cheap scope and a good one. At least its all shooting, and all shooting is good.
Dogleg
As gun lessons go, $70 is cheap. Loose screws happen and are the first place to check when things are going to crap. I just straightened out a couple rifles for friends, the only difference was that it was scope ring screws. Now, when a scope's innards get scrambled it takes a lot of shooting, checking, swapping etc just to identify the problem, which still isn't fixed. If you had to do all that with factory loads it can easily cost the difference between a cheap scope and a good one. At least its all shooting, and all shooting is good.
Dogleg
