Just purchased a Rem700 Varmint,Laminate stock,.308Win

[dthunter]

Hi guys!
Just got a new rifle to try out. They are a nice looking rifle! The stock feels super comfortable!
Anyone out there have this rifle? What is your thoughts on it?
What do you like/dislike?
I plan to shoot Cast bullets as accurately as possible.
I will try jacketed later.

 

[dan belisle]

I've had a couple of Rem laminated varmints, and had good luck with them. They were both accurate, pleasant to shoot guns. I don't shoot cast bullets in any of my 308's, so can't help you there sorry. - dan

 

[Rod B]

I have owned a Remington 700VLS in .223 for about 15 years. It has been a good accurate rifle.

My only complaints would be that the forend is a little too narrow for use when shooting from a rest. I also found the trigger to be less than acceptable, I upgraded to a Jard trigger.

 

[Max Owner]

Casting your own?

If so you have way too much time on your hands or looking for a reason to lock yourself in your man cave.

 

[Miltiades]

Hi guys!
Just got a new rifle to try out. They are a nice looking rifle! The stock feels super comfortable!
Anyone out there have this rifle? What is your thoughts on it?
What do you like/dislike?
I plan to shoot Cast bullets as accurately as possible.
I will try jacketed later.

The .308 Win is probably the best caliber for cast bullets. You will get much better results and much less leading problems if you lap the barrel before shooting lead. Even though hammer forged barrels are not as rough as broach cut or button rifled, lapping pays dividends for lead bullet shooting in rifles.

 

[dthunter]

Thanks for the thoughts guys!
I just finished glass bedding the rifle, putting a 25 MOA rail, and mounting a 6.5-20x40,Leupold VXIII.
Bore sited,moly coated the barrel, adjusted the trigger.......

Loaded 30 rounds of cast bullets. Spent 5-6 hours in my man cave today!

I may try that fire lapping process.
Has anyone tried it on gunnutz?

 

[Miltiades]

Thanks for the thoughts guys!
I just finished glass bedding the rifle, putting a 25 MOA rail, and mounting a 6.5-20x40,Leupold VXIII.
Bore sited,moly coated the barrel, adjusted the trigger.......

Loaded 30 rounds of cast bullets. Spent 5-6 hours in my man cave today!

I may try that fire lapping process.
Has anyone tried it on gunnutz?

I fire lapped my old custom .308 when I was ready to fire cast bullets, that was more than 15 years ago. It is a Douglas custom barrel that had fired a few hundreds of 168 SMK loads through it so I don't know how effective the fire lapping was but I got minimal leading and didn't use moly coating either.

 

[Max Owner]

What is fire lapping?

 

[Rod B]

It is done with a kit that contains cast lead bullets & various fine grades of lapping compound.

The compound is applied to the bullets & then they are fired through the barrel, hence the term "fire lapping" is used to describe the process.

 

[dthunter]

My initial tests are going to be with bullets sized to .309"
177gr.(170gr. Lyman mould). A hard linotype alloy.
I will try 1400-1900fps range to see if any leading occurs in this speed window.

If I try .310" sized bullets on my next batch, has anyone had any problems with cast bullets being sized to big?

 

[dthunter]

Just a note:

I am not worried about pressures being an issue, just lead fouling.
I am using Lymans moly bullet lube.

 

[ben hunchak]

One of my fav. cast bullet target guns is the same 700 in .308, my most accurate load to date with it is Lyman #311644 and Eagan MX-3 at around 2000fps, though all my .30 cals. have different cast bullet preferences, as my .30 BR. really likes the Saeco #315. You should be good to go to .310" or even more, as long as it doesn't expand the case neck enough that it won't chamber. One thing you will have to play with is Bore rider vs non-bore rider, and the diff. sizes of bore riding portion, again, every rifle has diff. likes and dislikes.....Ben

 

[Max Owner]

Thanx Rod.

David Tubb was advertising some bullets that would do this kind of thing.

 

[Chinbullco]

Fire-Lapping

Thanks for the thoughts guys!
I just finished glass bedding the rifle, putting a 25 MOA rail, and mounting a 6.5-20x40,Leupold VXIII.
Bore sited,moly coated the barrel, adjusted the trigger.......

Loaded 30 rounds of cast bullets. Spent 5-6 hours in my man cave today!

I may try that fire lapping process.
Has anyone tried it on gunnutz?

Fire lapping will smooth a rough barrel for sure. Barrel should be slugged from breech to muzzle before and after lapping bullets are fired to measure amount of improvement gained. I used the "NECO" kit, but strayed from the instructions. I used jacketed bullets, loaded to data for cast bullet velocities, with the fine compound only.