exdeath
Lifer
- Jan 29, 2004
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Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
Originally posted by: exdeath
Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
Originally posted by: exdeath
Definitely on the 3850 fps. Hardly any recoil due to the weight of the rifle. Squeeze the 3 lb zero creep trigger and see a hole appear on your target, and hear a boom and a crack about 5 minutes laterFirst time I fired this rifle he had just finished it. Handed it over to me, said it was sighted in at zero @ 300 yds. I held about 2" low on a golf ball on the berm at 110 yards and hit it twice after finding where it went between shots
He gave it to me for $800! The barrel is from a SEAL sniper rifle that only had 100 rds through it, powder coated.
I'll get you all the other stuff out of my log book when I get home![]()
When I first got my 220 Swift I loaded up some 40 grain bullets to max load, 4400fps according to the book.
Anyway, I was driving around the farm doing some shooting and I noticed that when the sun was behind me a little I could "see" the bullet going to the target. So I got a good angle where the sun was right and was shooting at a big rock 300 to 400 yards away. I could see the bullet most of the way to the rock, but I never heard it hit it. After shooting it a half dozen times I went over and looked and there were NO marks on the rock?? The only explanation I could come up with is that the bullet was completley vaporizing itself before it got to the target.
I guess I don't know for sure if that was what the deal was, but I don't ever load anything hotter then 4000fps anymore.
Ok here we go.
The 125 gr are Nosler ballistic tip with 75 gr of H4350 @ 3800 fps. The 150 gr are Nosler Accubond with the same charge @ 3420 fps. Both with Federal 215 match magnum primers.
My bad, 'only' 3800 fps, not 3850![]()
I've never really tried any of the lighter grain bullets in my .300 mag, but one of the big reasons I picked it was because of all the various 30 caliber bullets that were available for it, though it looks like your taking advantage of that fact.
I had the time so I experimented this year and loaded a couple of boxes of 165 grain boat tails with the same 72.5 grains of 4350. That load didn't shoot as well as the 180 grain boattail. At 300 yards on a really windy day it had 2 to 3 more inches of wind drift and I had a hard time just hitting the 4'x4' backstop on the 800 yard target, let alone the 20" bullseye. For my gun the 200fps I picked up in speed wasn't even close to being worth it due to the loss in accuracy.
In my rifle, both those loads have the same point of impact at 300 yds I believe. I don't get to the bigger range as often as I like, most are only 100 yrds.
Ah forgot to add regarding shooting experiences with iron sights, don't remember if that was you or BoberFett. One time I was out with the guy who built my .300 wm and we were taking pot shots at a boulder about 3'x3' in size on the mountain side with iron sites, trying to hit each others previous shot (fresh rock showed up bright white against the weathered rust color of the outside). Clocked 247 yards on the laser range finder, I was nailing within a 1'x1' square with a Mosin Nagant 91/30 and some nasty ass corroded steel 1950s 7.62x54R
Of course he was beating my arse with one of his hand built custom jobs with hand loaded ammo, but fun to know I could hit a human breadbox that far with any $50 piece of corroded metal I pick up.
Hmm all this gun talk is making want to meet some of you guys, go shooting, and make new friends. I thought it was supposed to make us all blood thirsty murderers? Shhhh!!!
