Help choosing long range rifle...

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I went with a Browning X-Bolt Long Range Hunter in 7mm RM. Nice rifle... accurate, good trigger, muzzle brake, great recoil pad, high quality detachable box magazine, smooth action, tang safety, light profile fluted and floated barrel. It is slim and reasonably light. I like it a lot.
 
I went with a Browning X-Bolt Long Range Hunter in 7mm RM. Nice rifle... accurate, good trigger, muzzle brake, great recoil pad, high quality detachable box magazine, smooth action, tang safety, light profile fluted and floated barrel. It is slim and reasonably light. I like it a lot.
Excellent choice IMHO! A 7mm RM is basically an 06+P+ in simple terms. Not really much difference out to about 200/250 yards, but beyond that, the 7mm out shines the 06 in spades! It is very effective, at very long ranges!
 
Effective for what? Certainly not for hunting or combat (see Japanese Army)
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The Japanese were using 6.5mm ammunition back in 1897 but they dropped it in favor of a more powerful 7.7mm cartridge. Heck, the .260 Remington was introduced in 1997, the 6.5x47 Lapua in 2005 but it wasn't until 2007 that Hornady "invented" the 6.5 Creedmoor.
There's been a bit of improvement in ballistic technology since 1897, 1911 and 1937.

Technology (especially projectiles) have improved dramatically even since the 1990's. They've even gone so far as to have turned 'poodle shooter' 5.56's into good white-tail and hog guns.

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I'm going to venture to say that they weren't getting that sort of performance in the Russian-Japanese Wars, Manchuria or WWII.

The various 6mm, 6.5 and 6.8's are doing even better than that, so I'm not sure what the comparison with a turn of the century (not this last one, the one before that) load is supposed to be about.
 
There's been a bit of improvement in ballistic technology since 1897, 1911 and 1937.

Technology (especially projectiles) have improved dramatically even since the 1990's. They've even gone so far as to have turned 'poodle shooter' 5.56's into good white-tail and hog guns.

I'm going to venture to say that they weren't getting that sort of performance in the Russian-Japanese Wars, Manchuria or WWII.

The various 6mm, 6.5 and 6.8's are doing even better than that, so I'm not sure what the comparison with a turn of the century (not this last one, the one before that) load is supposed to be about.

Well, it's easy enough to find out. I have plenty of WWII munitions and rifles here, bring me some pigs to shoot. :evil:
 
Hey Trent nice to hear from you again

Good to be heard from.

I've been lurking, just never really have anything substantial to add to any conversation. It seems by the time I get around to reading them they've already been answered or (if it's a good topic) 4 pages deep by the time I get there. :)

As far as new content, I'm still without a shooting range so I haven't been up to much in that regard. All my guns are busy collecting dust.. it's a real shame. :banghead:
 
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Well, it's easy enough to find out. I have plenty of WWII munitions and rifles here, bring me some pigs to shoot. :evil:
I'll herd them your way, be sitting at the back window at 3am tonight.

(What is up with these freaking icons on the side?)
 
Update:

Finally completed the 6.5 Grendel build, tested it out on Monday, so far I am very pleased with it.
 
you know this isn't 1989 anymore. you can post pictures on the internet now...
 
Can't yet. I just moved and don't have internet access at my new house (waiting for comcast to do their thing). So I only have internet at work. I work on a military installation and they have some pretty strict rules about using flash drives, so I don't have a good way to transfer the images from my digital camera to my work computer. Pics will come as soon as I can use my home computer again. I'll upload pics of the gun itself and of some of the targets.

All that said I do have one older pic of the build before it was completed which I'll attach now. The rifle still looks mostly like this, it has a different scope on it now (the SWFA rather than the pictured cheap bushnell) and some rail covers on the hand guard and some other minor stuff like that...
 

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