Recent content by Hoogs

Cheers Visionz!

Thanks all for your advice, My smithy will be refacing my standard bolt and fitting Sako extractor. 30-06 is outta the question due to not wanting to deviate from short action. As far as the box goes... I have a "Accurate Magazines" professionally modified AI 10 round mag for it (8rd in...

Hey Desi, I was warned that the biggest battle I was gonna face with the project was getting the .300 wsm to feed. I have found an AI .308 magazine modified to feed .300 wsm (8rd as opposed to 10) so hopefully with a bit of tweaking, all should be good... it will be built into a MAK Tube...

If anyone has any 30 cal 168gr Barnes Tipped TSX's lying around (or if you know off the top of your head), could you please tell me the overall length of the projectile? I am trying to work out the ideal rate of twist for these projectiles fired from a .300 WSM... My gunsmith said that 1:10...

Thanks mate :-)

what other major issues am I gonna face? I got an AI magazine the .300 wsm feeds from, and got my gunsmith refacing my bolt and truing/accurising my action... Essentially it's just a Rem 700 Short Action :-)

Hi, I'm just about to order a new barrel for my Remington 700 and have it re chambered from .308 to .300 WSM and was hoping someone could give me some advice on ideal twist rate? I am looking at shooting 168gr Barnes Tipped TSX projectiles, and had originally planned to go for a 1:10...