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Rancid Coolaid
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"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
If you are shooting at 500, 600-700 is just a bit more, 100-200 yards, to be exact. |
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Kickboxer
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With .308 150gr bullet drop is over double from 500-700, almost 2.5x with .243 95gr. Drift due to wind is over double. Big difference in 200 yards.
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sniper13
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My go to gun is a 700 .308 w/20" 1:12 bull and I can and have shot many sub moa groups at 600 yards...and I agree with what was said earlier about the ss scope....I have the ss 10x42m on this rifle, and have made 800 yard shots with this rig.....thats with a 168gr Honady match and 44.5 varget..... |
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Rancid Coolaid
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When you find a recipe the rifle rally likes, it's tough to venture far from what works.
Gotta dance with who brung ya'!
Details, details. "Ready, fire aim" never hurt anyone! |
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rifle looney
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And sniper-13 thanks for bringing this back..... not!....I got it done, and what I am doing is working as intended but with no SS.
Edited by rifle looney - June/01/2009 at 20:37 |
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sniper13
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pulling a trigger is easy....hitting your mark is intelligence
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rifle looney
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No I don't have all the answers, and I don't follow text books I work it out for what ever works best for me and my situation, and go from there. No it don't always work but it's close enough for what I am doing and that would not be shooting at game animals at these distances targets only.
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Urimaginaryfrnd
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Buddy I'm thinking the .243 is not enough gun when you start talking 600 yds plus. A 260 Rem is a 6.5mm which has very nice balistic coeffecient and would do what you are looking for. A .308 is also a very strong possible as is 30-06, 300 WSM, 300 WM and you need to sit down with a reloading book and look at velocity and energy then plug in some info to a balistic calculator I'd look real strong at the Tika 30-06 or the Sako A7 30-06 personally as you get a little more velocity than a .308 but without the punishment of the magnums. Id top it with a scope with target knobs and this one looks like a bargain Break-in 101
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Charlie-bolted
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Loone, I see where ya goin, I’m kinda in same boat. Lookin at a Savage 10fp in .308, good solid platform to start and the .308 will definitely reach out to 1000, maybe not to kill in a lot of instances but defintely at 600. Fairly light to carry, maybe not 8 lbs light , but doable. (Vanguard? 2nd choice) With a .308 you cant go wrong. It has been a staple in long distance shooting for since it was born just about. Now I may have a question as to what kind of holdover you talking when you don’t seem to want the mil-dot reticles, that may be a mistake (IMO) and you should look for something finer then the ‘dots’ or at least some marks, when you lookin at 600 thru the reticle things tend to be small? With said, 10” plate? No, that’s tight, but maybe 36”x36” plate .. I like Horus Vision, nice system and the knobs turn in .1 miliradians, same as graduated on the reticle, look out for scopes with reticles calibrated in miliradians, but knobs turn with MOA, pita IMO. Best of luck to ya! |
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