Help deciding on rifle

[16Bore]

.612 on the VLD. About the only place it shines IMO is cheating a SA 6.5 into thinking its a 270. 20 grains less powder gets the same job done. Flatter shooting is meaningless with a turret and gain in drift is about 1" at 500 yards at 3,300. Hardly worth Noslers efforts at a better mouse trap but it gets folks on the hook.

 

[30338]

The more I shoot the 195 berger vld with a .755 bc and the 180 scenar with a .66 or so bc, the happier I am with my 7mm remington. They are only moving 2800-2900, but they are both hammers. Anxious to see the 195 on game in Dec if it works out. I like my 6.5-06 with the 140 vld, but these big 7 bullets are hard to ignore. Order an 8.5 twist 7mm barrel and go that route is my advice.

 

[16Bore]

I've got a pile of 180 Scenars waiting for play time. Been steering my stuff to more one bullet wonders and slimming down the piles of crap. 260 and 123's, 7 RM and 162's. Might just be team Scenar before long. If there was a .550+ .277 Scenar, I'd go rainbow and ditch them both....

 

[StrutNut]

I never had the xbolt but I did have the Abolt and a Win m70 and I liked them both. The 300 wm I just bought I am extremely happy with. Its the Savage Bear Hunter. With the brake on there really is not much recoil at all. In fact my 14 year old shoots it all the time. We ripped through 60 rounds in one shooting without even worrying about recoil. I also like the accutrigger a lot. With factory rounds I am right at 3/4 moa. I plan on doing as mentioned above, 215 berger or the new Hornady's, whichever works better. I hope to have this shooting under 1/2 moa when I am done. I bought mine on gunbroker for $700.00. It was a donated rifle from Savage to the Youth Shooting Alliance.