GooseGestapo
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Well, funny you should ask…(op)..
Just this afternoon, I took three of my four 7’s to check/reset the zero’s. (Two went to Wyoming last month and were sighted for 300yds. (Saw a lot of elk, but didn’t get a shot….(sigh). Oh well…
(7-30Waters, Contender Carbine w/21” bbl; Ruger RSI in 7x57; REM Mod.7, 7mm08; Remington M700 in 7mmRemMag (RemArms circa 2021).
After resetting the scope on the REM M-7 in 7-08, I fired three shots. I thought that two had gone off the paper. Adjusted scope (2.5-8x VariX-III) for 100yd zero and fired a single round before range was called “cold”. This is what I found on the target:
Well, here’s an update…
Second photo is what it does to a deer… note the exit wound.
Not bad for a 7lb carbine! This is undoubtedly the best it’s ever shot. The amazing thing is that it’s Hornady factory OFB range pickups, using a Midway 150gr Spt Blem’s (I suspect they’re Hornady over-runs for another company). I seated them just off the lands with H4350. They aren’t spectacularly fast, just 2,600fps. My “hunting” load was with Reloader #17, and run 2,800fps. Just 300fps slower than my 7mag with IMR7828… which has a 26” bbl…
Just had to share. Some celebrity (P.T.Barnum or W.C.Fields iirc) once said it “ain’t bragging, if ya done it…”.
Just this afternoon, I took three of my four 7’s to check/reset the zero’s. (Two went to Wyoming last month and were sighted for 300yds. (Saw a lot of elk, but didn’t get a shot….(sigh). Oh well…
(7-30Waters, Contender Carbine w/21” bbl; Ruger RSI in 7x57; REM Mod.7, 7mm08; Remington M700 in 7mmRemMag (RemArms circa 2021).
After resetting the scope on the REM M-7 in 7-08, I fired three shots. I thought that two had gone off the paper. Adjusted scope (2.5-8x VariX-III) for 100yd zero and fired a single round before range was called “cold”. This is what I found on the target:
Well, here’s an update…
Second photo is what it does to a deer… note the exit wound.
Not bad for a 7lb carbine! This is undoubtedly the best it’s ever shot. The amazing thing is that it’s Hornady factory OFB range pickups, using a Midway 150gr Spt Blem’s (I suspect they’re Hornady over-runs for another company). I seated them just off the lands with H4350. They aren’t spectacularly fast, just 2,600fps. My “hunting” load was with Reloader #17, and run 2,800fps. Just 300fps slower than my 7mag with IMR7828… which has a 26” bbl…
Just had to share. Some celebrity (P.T.Barnum or W.C.Fields iirc) once said it “ain’t bragging, if ya done it…”.
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