Long range rifles

I've got some 6.5 (.264) Berger bullets for sale if anybody is interested. 2 boxes of 100. One has been opened and the other is still sealed. Berger 140 gr VLD Targets. $40/box.

 

Ok guys I have questions about long range shooting. I have a R700 in 300 Win Mag and was debating on doing work to it. Can someone explain the benefit of truing the receiver and what acuruzing is? Should I go with an aftermarket barrel or leave the stock one on? I don't reload so I'd be using factory ammo. Does it really matter if I go with an aftermarket stock too?

 

What is the intended purpose?
Hunting two or three times/year?
Setting up a long range precision gun for 1000+ yards?
Sending 100 or so rounds down range over the course of the day? (kinda goes along with that lr precision question)

The factory assembles the rifle within allowable tolerances. Do some factory guns shoot really well? Yes. Within an inch at 100yd? (Some folks will refer to this as 1 MOA accuracy) Sure, some do. Do some shoot less than an inch at 100yd? Yes, but those are tough to find. Will the gun maintain the minute of angle accuracy over multiple distances? Some factory guns do, however those can be tough to find as well, most will open up as the range gets extended.

By accurizing or blueprinting the rifle the gun smith will true the face of the action to make certain it square with the bore and the bolt face. When the new barrel gets threaded he is making certain the bore and the center of the action are aligned and concentric. By spending the extra time to do all this it removes some of the variables from the discussion. Remember when shooting over longer distances a 1/8deg of deviation at the gun can result in a miss 900yds out. By having the gun accurized that 1 MOA at 100yd should shrink to 1/2 and maintain that accuracy across multiple yardages.

The reason for changing out the stock would be for fit. If you're shooting all day you want some level of comfort because that will affect your accuracy. You want the gun to fit you, not trying to fit yourself to the gun. The other reason to change out the stock would be if it's one of those injection molded stocks. They suck, you don't want a stock that has all the rigidity of a wet rag. You want the stock and the action to be mated together as one like a newlywed couple that can't keep their hands off one another. If the action is floating around in the stock that will severely affect accuracy and consistency.

We were shooting a match and got there a day early to verify dope. One of the guys shooting with us put up a 6 round group of 3 1/2in at 1000yds with a 6.5 Creedmore. Considering 10" = 1 MOA at 1000yds this was well under 1/2 MOA accuracy. That was no factory gun.

 

Thinking of getting this Ruger precision rifle ,anyone here have one and have put rounds down range with it . what do you like /dislike about it

Looking at the .308 cal

http://www.ruger.com/products/precisionRifle/models.html

 

30 Nosler
M48 Long Range
Leupold LRP 6.5-20X50
Shooting 195gn ABLR's
Bottom pic is at 700 yards. First shot was the low one, made adjustment and the next 3 are grouped nicely together.

 

Great shooting! Prone or tabletop?

 

Laying prone in the bed of the Tacoma. Bipod and rear sand bag. Bipod is a Javilin bipod made by Spartan bipods in The UK. Carbon fiber and titanium. Rock solid up front and can't recall the rear bag.
Thank you! Furthest I've grouped a rifle to date. With the weather was a little cooler here in the desert of Oregon so I can get out again.

 

Remington 700 SPS .243 Varmint 26" Bull barrel
Nikon Monarch 4-16x50
Jewell Trigger, 14oz.
H-S Precision free floating epoxy gel/Kevlar Stock - 2.7 lbs.
Harris 6"-9" Bipod



300yd group (long range?)
Federal 100gr Soft Point Power Shok (over the counter!)



Waiting for hogs to show up on my bait.

 

on your last photo, I did that once in the back of a F150 with my 6.5 creedmoor & an MB, and broke my father in laws windshield!

 

Smugly, you mean from 'inside' the cab? How did that happen?

As far as hunting off the top of my Tacoma cab, it is kinda of the perfect rest for my rifle.
Also one is up high and most body movements are hidden by the cab.
Besides, I was at the top of a hill and out to 200 yds the hungry feral pigs I was hunting were not jumpy.

 

We were in the back like you were set up on the roof of the cab shooting out over the front of the truck
on an Atlas bipod & squeeze bag. It was from the concussion coming off of the muzzle break, the 6.5 has like 2300 pounds of energy coming out of the front of the barrel

 

obviously a top notch setup you got there! nice euquipment! who's scopes caps are those that flip all the way back like that? I assume there Vortexs!

 

Those are the newer Vortex Optics 'Defender' scopes.

 

Anyone have a Ruger precision rifle stock they want to part with?

 

Semi-Auto's can be accurate

A little .223 that works pretty well:

 

I saw you on here before asking about that, that’s going to be a tough order to Fill since the RPR is a purpose built rifle. Good luck

 

I would agree, here's my rig

 

Already found one and it arrived today

 

The 6.5 CM has nothing over the ole 6.5x55 Swede....pics of mine when I get my regular PC back runnin