Thanks for all the replies. I should give you a little more about the project that I neglected originally. The purpose for the build is to hit at 1 mile with as much consistency as possible. Every time I say that, someone completely original tells me that I should be shooting a .338 or a .408... lol Lets skip that. I had a Remington LA and I am going to make use of it. My self-imposed parameters or limitations are a 30 moa scope base, and a Nightforce NXS 8-32x56 which has a total of 65 moa vertical adjustability. I would like to zero at 100 yd and be able to dial to 1 mile. With that amount of drop compensation, I would need to get a 208 gr Hornady Amax with a bc of .648, to a speed of 3070 fps. or it will go subsonic before a mile, AND I will be out of adjustability in my scope/base. Several of you will want to recommend different weight bullets, but with the research I have been doing, the bullet is either too heavy to make the distance with the adjustability I have, or the bc is too low to make the distance with the adjustability I have. In other words the 208 gr Hornady Amax is the very best choice based on weight and advertised bc. With that bullet in mind, does anyone have experience with heavy contoured barrels, harmonics, and milking a barrel for every fps you can? I am hoping to achieve best accuracy over 3070 fps, and I am willing to try different powders (Retumbo, H1000, and the like) to get there, but based on my research it looks like the 208 Amax is the bullet I am stuck with unless I happen to be getting more speed out of the barrel then first expected. I agree accuracy is the biggest issue, but I am trying to make this into a 1 mile rifle...
