Wondering what type ammo you shoot wirh 300winn mag for long range?

Eagleye said:
If you start the 200 at 2950+, The trajectory is very similar to the 180. At 500, there is only about 2" additional drop if sighted +3" @ 100. Eagleye.
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But less wind drift, more energy, as well as more retained velocity. Especially if you are using some of the newer high bc bullets. He did mention long range after all you need the speed to get there and the energy to deliver.
 
Well i did adjust my elevation on my scope 3” high at 100 yards, took a bruiser white tail buck at last light today 300 yards n change. No hold over direct lung shot. Id post a pic if i knew how to lol. So thanks a tons guys for the feedback. Im tagged out for big game season so now its onto the yotes and ice fishing plus some range time.

Happy shooting everyone!!
 
Baytrapper said:
Well i did adjust my elevation on my scope 3” high at 100 yards, took a bruiser white tail buck at last light today 300 yards n change. No hold over direct lung shot. Id post a pic if i knew how to lol. So thanks a tons guys for the feedback. Im tagged out for big game season so now its onto the yotes and ice fishing plus some range time.

Happy shooting everyone!!
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Gotta like it when a plan comes together.
 
Baytrapper said:
Well i did adjust my elevation on my scope 3” high at 100 yards, took a bruiser white tail buck at last light today 300 yards n change. No hold over direct lung shot. Id post a pic if i knew how to lol. So thanks a tons guys for the feedback. Im tagged out for big game season so now its onto the yotes and ice fishing plus some range time.

Happy shooting everyone!!
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Congratulations! Nice being able to just hold dead on, eh?

Works for yotes and ice fishing, too. ;)
Ted
 
Why not? said:
Bullet trajectories are parabolic, not arcs of a circle. That is why you can sight 3" high at 100, be close to 3" high at 200 and near zero at 300.

You weren't paying attention in geometry class, were you! ;)
Ted
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I went to less then 20 lectures in 4 yrs, i am sure geometry is not the only thing i missed in class! Lol
 
Baytrapper said:
Well i did adjust my elevation on my scope 3” high at 100 yards, took a bruiser white tail buck at last light today 300 yards n change. No hold over direct lung shot. Id post a pic if i knew how to lol. So thanks a tons guys for the feedback. Im tagged out for big game season so now its onto the yotes and ice fishing plus some range time.

Happy shooting everyone!!
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Congratulations on a successful hunt BT!!!

I have been sighting in my hunting rifles +3" at 100 forever. I was mentored by a friend of the
family. He was of German descent, and he was adamant that that sighting was optimum for most
hunting situations. It has proven to be so, in my case. Obviously, the trajectory varies somewhat
depending on bullet design and initial velocity. But by shooting to verify bullet impact at various
distances, it is easy to make it work in the field, as our OP has demonstrated by a successful
shot at 300+ with his rifle. Eagleye.
 
Hornady Superformance 180 gr GMX. A bolt 26 in barrel. +1.5 @ 100 yds, pretty much zero at 200, can't remember my 300 yd elevation but not a whole lot of drop. Smooth shooting ammo though.
 
Another good bullet that shoots fairly flat out of the 300 Mag is the Hornady ELD-X 178gr.

They don't seat to deep into the case, and they are fast,,, real fast.
The mags like heavy bullets, ok, mostly all of them, but the general rule "mostly" is in the mid weight bullet range.

If I recall the ft-lbs energy to the 400 mark will be spectacular with bullets in the weight,,, and it will remain above the 10 to 1100 ft-lbs energy way past that.

Fast and flat shooting with lots of energy and hopefully moderate recoil.

Don from Western Canada
 
My Sako m75ss 300WM was sighted in back in 1997 with 180gr Partition Golds from Winchester Supreme ammo with a Leupold Vari-X III 3.5-10x40 scope with Duplex reticle. 3.5" High at 100m put me Dead On Zero at 325m and if memory serves me right, about 15-18" low at 500m. Switched in 2003 to the WS Accubond factory ammo. Since 2005, been shooting with 180gr Accubond reloads, I used the same sight in at 3.5" High. My good friend bought the same rifle at the same time and he sighted his for 2" high@ 100 and used the same bullets initially and uses factory Accubonds since 2003.

Spend time at the range, learn to use your scope reticle and ballistics on your gun. If you have a LR type reticle it helps ( I have rifles with scopes having the BC reticle from Leupold and love them) but not needed. I know I am capable of shots 500m and have done a few on deer and moose, but I like the challenge of Spot and Stalk / calling in game closer.

180gr-200gr ABs or TTXS's or the newer 190 / 210 Nosler Long Range AB's or the Swift Scirroco's get my vote for long range bullets.
 
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A current favorite long range load for the .300 Win is the 190 LR Accubond at 3150 fps, put there with a healthy dose of H1000.

3" high at 100 puts it dead on at 325, and 4" low at 375. Neither of the two rifles I use that load in are actually zeroed that way though. In the case of the first, it's sporting a Mark 4 and a 100 yard zero. What I do is carry it with the first 3 MOA already dialled. When you have that kind of PB reach at hand, why would you want to leave it on the table?

The second is sighted for 300 yards on the nose, which works out to 2.75" high at 100 on paper and 2.5" in real life. The reason is that that makes it a better fit with the B&C reticle. It works out to 3, 4, 5, 6 with the aiming points and 650 yards at the infinity pin. I'd rather have the trajectory match the reticle than chase after the last few yards of MPBR. Keeps life simple too.

That load puts the boring old .300 Win right up there with my STWs, .257 and .270 Weatherbys, my 6.5-300 Win and an over achieving .270 WSM with their current loads. That ain't exactly nothing.
 
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