During the Calgary gun show in April, I went to the Shooting Edge, which was clearing out Kimbers. They had a Montana in 300WSM. I hemmed and hawed and walked away. My brother was in town and was trying to decide on a handgun. So back to the Shooting Edge on Saturday. The 300 WSM was still there. Ridiculously low price. Decided I couldn't leave it there, I could even sell it and make money!
Of course, you can't always not shoot a new rifle, so over the last month I ordered some Talley LW xtra low rings, laid hands on a VX3 2.5-8x36 Leupold, tried Butler Creek scope caps, but the objective didn't provide enough clearance, the bolt rubbed the cap. I took the BC caps back to Wholesale and eventually laid hands on Alumina caps. Very nice, but very expensive, IMO. I have enough clearance for everything.
Anyways, this is how the rig now looks.
Close up.
The girls were asking to go shooting, so I took them to the range. Managed to get the Montana cleaned and bore sighted in between loading and supervising for them. Little good the bore sighting did me. Didn't hit paper at 50. Once I figured out I was high, I went to adjust lower, and managed to go higher. Duh!! Starting to get discouraged, as I was also trying to figure out how it best liked to be held. Got it close at 50, took it out to 100, and here are the final 4 shots. Factory Federal Fusion 150 gr, 300WSM. Not too bad for the 13, 14, 15 shot out of a new gun. BTW, it likes to be held just in front of the magazine. Recoil takes some getting used to, but isn't bad, considering it is a lightweight 300 mag. Of course it feels a whole lot better when you're grouping nice.
Of course, you can't always not shoot a new rifle, so over the last month I ordered some Talley LW xtra low rings, laid hands on a VX3 2.5-8x36 Leupold, tried Butler Creek scope caps, but the objective didn't provide enough clearance, the bolt rubbed the cap. I took the BC caps back to Wholesale and eventually laid hands on Alumina caps. Very nice, but very expensive, IMO. I have enough clearance for everything.
Anyways, this is how the rig now looks.
Close up.
The girls were asking to go shooting, so I took them to the range. Managed to get the Montana cleaned and bore sighted in between loading and supervising for them. Little good the bore sighting did me. Didn't hit paper at 50. Once I figured out I was high, I went to adjust lower, and managed to go higher. Duh!! Starting to get discouraged, as I was also trying to figure out how it best liked to be held. Got it close at 50, took it out to 100, and here are the final 4 shots. Factory Federal Fusion 150 gr, 300WSM. Not too bad for the 13, 14, 15 shot out of a new gun. BTW, it likes to be held just in front of the magazine. Recoil takes some getting used to, but isn't bad, considering it is a lightweight 300 mag. Of course it feels a whole lot better when you're grouping nice.
. I have the kimber 300wsm in the classic and I love it. It was my first kimber firearm and I have since added a few more. I shoot 180gr interbonds over imr 4350 with pretty good results. It's always sweeter when you get a bargain isn't it? 
