Trying to keep up with Thunder550 and Kasey

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04-15-2013, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by nonnieselman

yea it kinda is.. but theres not a whole lot of difference between the 30-06 and 308 with the 168 and 175gr stuff.. its only when you get in the 190 and up is when it shines, but then you might as well go to the 300WM and blow both them out the water.

plus the 308 always had better scores than the 30-06 at the 1000yd matchs.

most the 30-06 loads dont fill the case much and i know alot of guys were getting alot of vertical stringing at long distances even tho their SD was pretty close. All my 308 loads are pretty tight on filing the case. No room in there

Lol, yeah, not a whole lot of room in the 308's. I own all three actually. What I have found in regards to accuracy issues is that people load the 30-06 as if it were a big 308. Switching from that mindset to loading it as a smaller 300win opened up a whole new realm of accuracy for me. Pet load right now is RL-22 under a 185gr berger hybrid or a 190gr vld. I found RL-22 fills the case quite nicely and does quite well out to 1300 yards. And let us not forget that Palma banned the 30-06 after it won I think two or three years in a row back in the 80's or early 90's. Now the only issue I have with the 300win is one, it's belted (I don't like belts), and two, the case neck is so darned short. Not saying the 300 or 308 are bad, I just have a preference to my old '06. To each his own I guess.

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07-12-2013, 09:47 PM

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Snagged a 4-16 PST SFP with rings for 550 so its time to play. Put a seekins 20moa base on it so I should have enough elevation for 1k on the turrets. Picked up 400 178Amaxs and nonnie got me 500 175gr SMKs to play with. Ive got 750 rounds of cheapie CBC and Magtech to plink with and have fun then I can start doing some load development as soon as I get a good scale. I think a good trigger of some sort and threading the barrel will be the only real mods to this thing. I love the factory stock and with the medium height vortex(seekins) rings I get pretty good cheek weld. I just cant see myself spending 500+ on a better stock at this point. Ready to dive off into reloading and getting some good practice at longer ranges.