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[River Reaper]

10lb 7-300 NMI and 195 Berger’s at 3070fps at 600 yards…

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Now that’s good shootin

 

[Funzy0798]

Factory Federal ammo:
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What barrel you have on it?

 

[swavescatter]

What barrel you have on it?

Custom chambered 20" Proof carbon.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

I just want to play not worried about winning.

Went and shot my 300prc Saturday morning. First time shooting it after putting it in a Manners EH1, chopping the barrel, SRS 3 port, and fresh cerakote. The barreled action was built by PVA on a Zermatt TL3 LA with a 26" Rock Creek barrel originally. Finally got around to installing the Maven RS1.2 that I bought off @atmat a while back. She weighs roughly 11.6lbs (bathroom scale me holding it) unloaded as it has a meaty barrel.



Decided I would shoot these


I'm the first one at the range so I set out a 50yd target for bore sighting and one at 100yd which is the furthest distance at the range.

I was also putting a SWFA 3-9 on a 7mm-08 for my friends 12yo son to use this year on an elk hunt.
300prc blue, 7mm-08 yellow


Close enough let's go to 100yd.
Shots 5-7, adjusted scope for 8, labradar 9-11.



19.5" barrel with factory 245gr ammo. Not a scorcher but I wouldn't want to be hit with one.

I decided to polish off the box making the 8-11 shot group a 13 round group.



Not mad at it.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

I just want to play not worried about winning.

Went and shot my 300prc Saturday morning. First time shooting it after putting it in a Manners EH1, chopping the barrel, SRS 3 port, and fresh cerakote. The barreled action was built by PVA on a Zermatt TL3 LA with a 26" Rock Creek barrel originally. Finally got around to installing the Maven RS1.2 that I bought off @atmat a while back. She weighs roughly 11.6lbs (bathroom scale me holding it) unloaded as it has a meaty barrel.

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Decided I would shoot these
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I'm the first one at the range so I set out a 50yd target for bore sighting and one at 100yd which is the furthest distance at the range.

I was also putting a SWFA 3-9 on a 7mm-08 for my friends 12yo son to use this year on an elk hunt.
300prc blue, 7mm-08 yellow
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Close enough let's go to 100yd.
Shots 5-7, adjusted scope for 8, labradar 9-11.
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19.5" barrel with factory 245gr ammo. Not a scorcher but I wouldn't want to be hit with one.

I decided to polish off the box making the 8-11 shot group a 13 round group.
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Not mad at it.

That's the proper spirit! Nice job!

 

[HandgunHTR]

10lb 7-300 NMI and 195 Berger’s at 3070fps at 600 yards…

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Show off!

 

[dårlig jeger]

Okayyy…. Two 30 round groups with a 12lb. 300 NMI. One is .7 the other is .9

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When did you shoot these?

 

[huntnful]

When did you shoot these?

A while ago. I don’t even have a big magnum anymore. But it’s not because they can’t be shot extremely well….

 

[dårlig jeger]

A while ago. I don’t even have a big magnum anymore. But it’s not because they can’t be shot extremely well….

Okay, just making sure I can still win that tikka takeoff stock. Headed to the range this weekend.

 

[solarshooter]

Okayyy…. Two 30 round groups with a 12lb. 300 NMI. One is .7 the other is .9

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Maybe the best groups I've ever seen considering sample size and recoil energy...

 

[Stocky]

A while ago. I don’t even have a big magnum anymore. But it’s not because they can’t be shot extremely well….

In fairness most guys in the 223 threads have factory barrels and are being limited by that rather than recoil.

I still dont think at a range with time magnums make a huge difference. I honestly think its just fundamentals and barrel quality.

My 280AI Kimber used to shoot 180 ELDs @2860FPS from a sub 7pound setup into some very nice small groups (better than 99% of my 223s shoot) but it was definitely a prone gun. Once I started shooting of trekking poles, or raised positions, etc I would just miss shots id easily make with the 223. I, like you dont have any bigger guns left because I feel a I gain more from shooting positions giving me more mid range shot opportunities that my old tactic of shooting from where I could make positions. Both work absolutely fine

 

[huntnful]

Maybe the best groups I've ever seen considering sample size and recoil energy...

Yeah with that sample size for sure. But I know there’s more 300 NMI’s out there that could the same thing. I’ve seen several shoot 5 shot groups in the .2’s. They’d likely stack a 30 rounds group damn tight. But no one really does that with the bigger guns very often.

In fairness most guys in the 223 threads have factory barrels and are being limited by that rather than recoil.

I still dont think at a range with time magnums make a huge difference. I honestly think its just fundamentals and barrel quality.

My 280AI Kimber used to shoot 180 ELDs @2860FPS from a sub 7pound setup into some very nice small groups (better than 99% of my 223s shoot) but it was definitely a prone gun. Once I started shooting of trekking poles, or raised positions, etc I would just miss shots id easily make with the 223. I, like you dont have any bigger guns left because I feel a I gain more from shooting positions giving me more mid range shot opportunities that my old tactic of shooting from where I could make positions. Both work absolutely fine

Completely agree. I actually started changing my tune a little bit when I had that 300 NMI that shot lights out. I spent tons of time truing it and shooting it at 1300 yards. I killed everything under 300 yards that season and just thought “well that sucked to carry around just to make a couple pop shots” hahaha. So now I have a more suitable mid range setup, that’s still capable to drop a pretty long bomb ballistically every so often, instead of the other way around.

 

[ckt3]

Okayyy…. Two 30 round groups with a 12lb. 300 NMI. One is .7 the other is .9

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Holy smokes

 

[AntelopeEater]

Sounds fun! I'm taking my .375 Ruger elephant gun to the range as soon as I reasonably can!

 

[One300wsm]

The gun shoots better than I can, less than 1”, probably shoot better if I backed it off running little on the hot side.
Weatherby Alpine 6.5 RPM 22” barrel under 8 lbs. 156 Berger Elite Hunter’s Loaded with Retumbo powder, ADG Brass and CCI LRM primers.
Shot a Desert Ram @ 700 yards DRT back in January in Mexico with it, see avatar.

 

[One300wsm]

Christensen Arms 300WM 24” barrel Peak 44 Bastion stock, I bedded and installed stock and added Arca rail, under 8 lbs. Shooting up some old 165 Nosler AB IMR 4831 Peterson brass WLRM Primers. She’s running a little hot also. I like’em hot!!! The two flyers were the first and last 11th shot. Shot both guns back to back no waiting to cool. This gun is an Elk slammer with 208 ELD-M’s @ 2950.

 

[BCsteve]

.35 Whelen shooting 200gr TTSX at 2950fps in a Tikka T3X with a factory stock. Disregard the sighter.

 

[littlebigtine]

10lb 7-300 NMI and 195 Berger’s at 3070fps at 600 yards…

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Just curious, how exactly do your group sizes shrink down range? Its confusing to me when I try and imagine how a bullet which is being imparted with more and more variables every yard would end up in a tighter group down at 600 yards compared to 100 yards?

Is there a distance where you see that accuracy go the other direction eventually?

Nice shooting btw

 

[One300wsm]

Weatherby Mark V Midnight Back Country 338 RPM CUSTOM OMR 20” barrel I installed, has stock trigger weighs 7.5lbs shot a Brown Bear spring 2024 DRT 210 TTSX.
210 TTSX STABLE 6.5 powder Weatherby brass WLRM primers. I’m 61 years old broke my neck 6 months ago in a SXS accident, shooting in cut off shirt 32 rounds in a row .
Momma didn’t raise no . Got to go ruck before dark.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Weatherby Mark V Midnight Back Country 338 RPM CUSTOM OMR 20” barrel I installed, has stock trigger weighs 7.5lbs shot a Brown Bear spring 2024 DRT 210 TTSX.
210 TTSX STABLE 6.5 powder Weatherby brass WLRM primers. I’m 61 years old broke my neck 6 months ago in a SXS accident, shooting in cut off shirt 32 rounds in a row .
Momma didn’t raise no . Got to go ruck before dark.

Nice shooting!