new best @ 500

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milkman
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.204 Ruger Guns: remington model 700

Re: new best @ 500

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Interesting...nicely done too. I'd say you have your calculations down. Do you do this because you don't shoot a mil reticle scope? For me its easier to have my zero as the highest flyer ....
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.204 Ruger Guns: Remington 700 SPS with a Shilen barrel
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milkman wrote:Thanks bud, I must commend you for being a fellow man of a 700!!
Gotta love the 700. One of my sons keeps trying to talk me into a Savage even though he once called my Remmy "freakishly accurate". Savage makes accurate guns too but compared to my 700 they are just flat out ugly.
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'man: No, I did that thinking that out to 300y and change that I could just put it "on" and expect a killing hit, but I do realize that picking a 200y zero would do the same. I think I was obsessing so much over where to zero, I just kinda flew of the track of reason. I can usually get 'em to stand up, so it seemed somewhat logical.

Toki' gotta agree with you on that... My Savage was a tack driver but looking at it was... well, kinda low on the delight scale.
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...but it shoty so well, that when I looked at it I saw beauty!!
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Like they say Bow, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and there is not much prettier than a 5 shot .25" group.
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milkman wrote:40 bergers and h4895 are the most accurate loads I have made. W748 is a good one for the shooter that is willing to allow his barrel to rest between shots. I like it due to the high velocity/less drop ability it can produce.

milkman, That statement about 748 is interesting. Why would a barrel need to be rested?
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jo191145 wrote:
milkman wrote:40 bergers and h4895 are the most accurate loads I have made. W748 is a good one for the shooter that is willing to allow his barrel to rest between shots. I like it due to the high velocity/less drop ability it can produce.

milkman, That statement about 748 is interesting. Why would a barrel need to be rested?
I thought the same, as W748 usually shoots cooler/temps than most other powders. Bill K
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Bill, I say that because of the fast burn rate and hot load potential of w748.
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