All things .308 Win

[General RE LEE]

Excuse me if I’ve already posted this but a 178 ELDX smacks the living poo out of a steel plate down range.

 

[akmerle]

Excuse me if I’ve already posted this but a 178 ELDX smacks the living poo out of a steel plate down range.

Those are what my Sig Cross prefers, and seem to always be on sale at my LGS for under $30 a box. Getting MV of a little over 2450fps with its 16” barrel and Banish 46 can, and comps out to a little over 1600fps / 1000ft-lbs at 600 yards. Both conveniently are the general minimums for velocity for ELDX bullets, and energy for medium sized game (my 7PRC does my big game work unless on Kodiak, then its 338). So is nice to know my general comfortable hunting range is within the rifle / cartridge / bullet’s effective range.

 

[Tacoland]

Excuse me if I’ve already posted this but a 178 ELDX smacks the living poo out of a steel plate down range.

Love that bullet... but I have one rifle that apparently does not. Getting diagonal stringing with factory 178 ELD-X.

It's not a good system, Ruger American w/ Athlon scope that only gets used for close ranges in the brush. ~2.5 MOA with most ammo, ~2 w/ 150gr Core-Lokt, but this seems weird:


Adjusted zero and shot a 20 round group (the two high ones were #5 and #7 and were 100% me):


Am I seeing a pattern or is the same size too small here?