Hunting whitetail in this, so all shots will be under 100 yd easy:
Might not get around to developing a load for my Tikka .308, 150gr Barnes TTSX shoots well off the shelf just in case when I watch over a field on the other side of the property.
i have my load but I’ve been loading and shooting it all summer.
130tmk & 43.5 of imr4350
As long as I don’t accidentally run out of primers I’ll just keep loading and shooting right up to season opening. I do need to get a 7rem mag load made up for my pops. If only I could find some 160tmks, but I’ll probably end up with a 162 eldx
Settled out on the 300 Win. Mag as a main hunting rifle for up-coming Oct hunt with the .308 as a backup, both rifles are shooting very good out to 500 yards as of last week's trip to the range, will go one more time to the big lines this coming week and run the guns thru to the 5–600-yard line. perhaps 20 - 25 rounds each using the same loads as I will hunt with, then the guns will be bore punched and wiped down and cased after laying out a few days, that will be the last time they will be touched until we start hunting October 5th, All the hunting rounds are packed as well as the rest of the gear for the hunt.