Thread: "Feather in my hat" 308win Featherweight load development

beautiful job......should help no end...now Im 99% sure of the answer to this one...but you arent perchance trying to shoot rifle using hug yourself hold are you???? DEFINATELY will respond better to firm grip on forend....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

beautiful job......should help no end...now Im 99% sure of the answer to this one...but you arent perchance trying to shoot rifle using hug yourself hold are you???? DEFINATELY will respond better to firm grip on forend....

Shooting off bags for load developement, final sighting will be done as per in the field

Originally Posted by dannyb

Shooting off bags for load developement, final sighting will be done as per in the field

but is your off hand on forestock or hugging yourself and manipulating the toe of stock???

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

but is your off hand on forestock or hugging yourself and manipulating the toe of stock???

Generally hold the fore. When I sight it in I will try a few different shooting positions to see if it effects poi

Greetings.
My Rem 700 ADL had a hard plastic butt plate for years. It certainly backed off the projectile quick. Early on I started backing off the loads a couple of grains for target shooting and more recently a lot more. As I got older I started getting recoil headaches after some of the shoots. A few years back my son gave me a spare Hogue stock he had and I had a suppressor fitted. A different rifle altogether now.
GPM.

Give the 150gr hotcor a go @dannyb . Same pill as the federal blue box, flat base and will smash anything inside the ranges you wanna shoot that winny

Appreciate all the suggestions, will get round to trying some or all of them, my range is out of action for a few weeks due to farming needs. Hence working on my neglected cruiser

While Dannyb is otherwise occupied I'll put a post on my mod 70 in 300 wsm. The price of ammo makes me even more mean n miserable so to strat I just roughly sighted it in, but went out last nite with the thermal and a pard 007s on the back of the rifle. Just enough lite from the stars to be able to wonder around in the dark, occasionally viewing the paddocks ahead as I'm cruising thru. So in this particular area I spy two wallaby's and down the far end some larger than rabbit ,animals, hoping they are pigs. As the paddock has a few trees and one or two Areas of wee copses . I used one for hiding behind and sneaked to within 100 mtrs, now I'm using a tripod to shoot off but for some reason I have lateral movement, I eventually get the target in the scope and its a dog fox, the other must be a bitch, trying to judge the swing I hurried the shot and after the bang I hear no twack, fuk missed.
This afternoon I took the winnie down to the south end range, I have an Eastern one as well, now my poor old right eye is coming to the end of vision and I get about a fraction of a second before it gets fairly dark, hence I looked away and then as soon as I looked back again I squeezed the trigger and straight away knew it went south, shit shot that is, bang on but 4 inches low. Took more care with the second and it felt good, about right but 1 inch to the left.
Got sick of my right eye so swapped shoulders and holy gamely clear as a bell,
It fell one inch below the one that was 1 inch left, that will do me an inch or should I say 1 MOA.
I'll go for another walk tonite as there was a sambar hind in the next paddock and a pig in the following one but the shot at the dog ruined any chance I might have had.

Shot the seating depth ladder today after somewhat of a sabatical from all things shooting related sorry @SmokeyJason looks like the 165gn spbt's will do the job.....hopefully, will need to load up a few more confirmation rounds but the best group of the day was just shy of 1" at 100y (.9405") likely traveling at 2600fps or near enough. No chrono today as I didn't want to risk skewing group sizes.
For a lightish knock about short range rifle with a 2.5-8 scope that's plenty good enough.
The thicker limbsaver was a game changer so will definitely buy a new one and shape it perfectly for this stock, absolutely transformed the rifle with extra LOP and decent recoil absorbing it no longer is a handful.
Fingers crossed when I get around to loading the confirmation rounds it stays consistent...... could be a while as I have no intention of sitting at the loading bench any time soon.

Great result

People often don't realise how important it is for the rifle to fit the shooter, especially if it's light or somewhat lively.

Originally Posted by No.3

People often don't realise how important it is for the rifle to fit the shooter, especially if it's light or somewhat lively.

Whilst it definitely helps I have shot many a good group with short light rifles, I also shot a charge ladder with 150gn NBT's the same session as my seating depth ladder with the 165gn spbt's, there was nothing spectacular about any of the NBT loads, the best group was just over 1" everything else was 1.5-2"

they would be spectacular inside 200 yards when smack into a redskin all the same.

So after almost selling this rifle it ended up being the only 1 I have kept other than my .22
Was swapping out the scope this morning from a Monarch 2.5-8 to a Monarch 3 3-12× to make this rifle more of an all rounder rather than a dedicated light bush rifle.....soon as I sat the rifle in the gun vice I noticed the scope seemed loose.....closer inspection revealed the weaver base screws had worked them selves nearly all the way out have to wonder if this has been the prime cause of my struggle to find consistent accuracy highly likely I'd say
Have added some blue loktite and re torqued the bases, guess next trip to the range will reveal all

Originally Posted by dannyb

So after almost selling this rifle it ended up being the only 1 I have kept other than my .22
Was swapping out the scope this morning from a Monarch 2.5-8 to a Monarch 3 3-12× to make this rifle more of an all rounder rather than a dedicated light bush rifle.....soon as I sat the rifle in the gun vice I noticed the scope seemed loose.....closer inspection revealed the weaver base screws had worked them selves nearly all the way out have to wonder if this has been the prime cause of my struggle to find consistent accuracy highly likely I'd say
Have added some blue loktite and re torqued the bases, guess next trip to the range will reveal all

I seem to recall on more than one occasion suggesting this needs checked as part of initial checks,I got caught out with it twice in short order,strangely enough both times after having suppressor fitted...and one of those was my old model 70..... went from 3-4" back to sub inch again.