Glock4ever
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Edmonton, AB
Well, I thought I would post today's efforts. It was a nice day but very, very windy (45KPH w/ Gusts up to 55KPH) but after not seeing a single coyote this morning, I decided to hit the range and sight my .308 in for big game season. Needless to say I was very impressed. I recently replaced my .308 Win Custom heavy barrel McMillan stocked A5 boltgun and .308 Win Savage 16FCSS with a Remington 700 LTR DM. I have pretty much left it stock as I already dumped a pile into my .338 LM build, so the only thing I have changed is a new trigger (rifle basix LV-1). Because I had to have the stock refurbished from HS Precision - I have not fired a single round through her since I bought her at Xmas last year. Here she is below:
She is equipped with a Leupold 3.5-10x40mm M2 TMR FFP scope, 20 MOA TPS rail, and TPS Aluminum Rings. I used a pile of 168 grain SMK/Varget loads that I put together in 2008 for my old custom boltgun and here is how she shot...
At 100m:
I shot a 3 round group it measures 0.694" (1.002" -.308). You can't tell from the photo but 2 shots are in the same hole. The middle hole is a 4th shot that I fired after testing various loads so I guess this is technically a 4 shot group.
The two holes in the upper right is actually 3 holes and measures pretty much the same - it was the first 3 round group I fired to find out where the POI was. The two holes on the left are actually 3 holes from a 168 Grain Nosler Ballistic Tip load that I was testing as it will likely be my go to load for hunting season. It is about 1.58" or 1.2" group. Overall not too bad.
At 200m:
The first group I fired was pretty decent 1.343" but the second was 2.50", not to sound like an armchair hero but I am calling a flyer on shot number 2 as I was starting to flinch a bit because the scope had caught me on the nose from the rest. However, like everything else it still counts.
Group 1:
Group 2:
At 300m:
This where it got interesting, I fired my first group and got 2.756", the second group was 2.411", and my final group was 1.592" (on the third target there are 2 other holes but they aren't from my rifle, I used someone else's target...)
Group 1:
Group 2:
Group 3:
Things I learned today, you can't ignore wind - sounds pretty obvious but there were flags setup at only the 100m and 300m point and you can see that as I started to pay attention to the wind at the target area it tightened up the groups significantly. At 45KPH, I found that I was getting thrown around at the bench and the challenge was to synchronize the wind at the shooting line and at the target. I really think that if I can get a calm day I can tighten these groups up even more.
As well, I was pretty impressed with how well this rifle shoots, I am so used to having aftermarket barrels, tight chambers, match crowns and trued actions, I forgot that these LTRs could shoot straight out of the box. I can comfortably say that this is a sub MOA rifle. I did notice that a short barreled 10 lb rifle (scope included) is not that much fun to shoot off the bench. I found that as I got near the end, I really had to focus on not flinching/anticipating the shot as getting a bonked on the nose twice really didn't feel good. Likely my bench technique isn't very good right now as I haven't gone shooting in a while but shooting this rifle reminded me why I replaced my first LTR with a heavier barrel.
She is equipped with a Leupold 3.5-10x40mm M2 TMR FFP scope, 20 MOA TPS rail, and TPS Aluminum Rings. I used a pile of 168 grain SMK/Varget loads that I put together in 2008 for my old custom boltgun and here is how she shot...
At 100m:
I shot a 3 round group it measures 0.694" (1.002" -.308). You can't tell from the photo but 2 shots are in the same hole. The middle hole is a 4th shot that I fired after testing various loads so I guess this is technically a 4 shot group.
The two holes in the upper right is actually 3 holes and measures pretty much the same - it was the first 3 round group I fired to find out where the POI was. The two holes on the left are actually 3 holes from a 168 Grain Nosler Ballistic Tip load that I was testing as it will likely be my go to load for hunting season. It is about 1.58" or 1.2" group. Overall not too bad.
At 200m:
The first group I fired was pretty decent 1.343" but the second was 2.50", not to sound like an armchair hero but I am calling a flyer on shot number 2 as I was starting to flinch a bit because the scope had caught me on the nose from the rest. However, like everything else it still counts.
Group 1:
Group 2:
At 300m:
This where it got interesting, I fired my first group and got 2.756", the second group was 2.411", and my final group was 1.592" (on the third target there are 2 other holes but they aren't from my rifle, I used someone else's target...)
Group 1:
Group 2:
Group 3:
Things I learned today, you can't ignore wind - sounds pretty obvious but there were flags setup at only the 100m and 300m point and you can see that as I started to pay attention to the wind at the target area it tightened up the groups significantly. At 45KPH, I found that I was getting thrown around at the bench and the challenge was to synchronize the wind at the shooting line and at the target. I really think that if I can get a calm day I can tighten these groups up even more.
As well, I was pretty impressed with how well this rifle shoots, I am so used to having aftermarket barrels, tight chambers, match crowns and trued actions, I forgot that these LTRs could shoot straight out of the box. I can comfortably say that this is a sub MOA rifle. I did notice that a short barreled 10 lb rifle (scope included) is not that much fun to shoot off the bench. I found that as I got near the end, I really had to focus on not flinching/anticipating the shot as getting a bonked on the nose twice really didn't feel good. Likely my bench technique isn't very good right now as I haven't gone shooting in a while but shooting this rifle reminded me why I replaced my first LTR with a heavier barrel.
. Anyway, that's pretty good shooting in those conditions. I'm usually never ambitious enough to go out shooting when it's that breezy....but....a guy should once in a while.
