Thread: 708 questions

@ebf

I'm curious as to how you're 162gr A Max's go on deer ?

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

@ebf

I'm curious as to how you're 162gr A Max's go on deer ?

At that speed they will be perfect. My 162eldms were savage at a higher speed but would have happily run them at 2600

Originally Posted by Rock river arms hunter

@ebf

I'm curious as to how you're 162gr A Max's go on deer ?

Very happy with it. The 162 ELD-M is pretty much the same projectile. Did not have to make any changes to my loads between the AMAX and ELMD, and I would confidently shoot both of those at animals, steel or paper. It is as close to the perfect all-round bullet as I have found.

@Marty Henry
What is the barrel length of your 308 and are you shooting factory ammo or reloads? for comparison
But I agree those speeds seem about 100fps too slow.
Most factory 708 ammo use a slower burning powder than 308 so suffer quite a lot by loosing 5 or more inches of barrel (from the 24in test barrels used in the factory)

22 inch with reloads I just mentioned it as a comparison as I thought the lighter bullet would have had more speed than that.

@ebf

Hmmmm well I've just got a load for my 308 being the 168gr TMK for that very reason of one round does it all.

I already run 160gr TMKs out of my 284 anyway......

Guess I'll be buying a few boxes more then!

20" factory barrel Rem 700, Hand loaded 140gr Rem Core-Lokts doing 2820fps

Originally Posted by ebf

I load for accuracy, not speed...


22 inch barrel

162 Amax : 2600 fps
120 Nosler BT : 3050 fps

14 inch barrel

120 Sierra Pro Hunter : 2645fps

What powder you using for the bts?

Yeah similar results to the other chaps here.

16" barrel with some AR2206H pushing 139g interlocks at 2690 with a pretty good grouping.

I did play with some 120g Barnes ttsx and had them up to 2950 fps but I want to play with them a bit more just for fun.