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Took the .308 Remington 700 5R out for the first time today. Got a 300wm 5R too but that one will have to wait as I don't have a scope for it.
Put it in an AICS 1.5. Took a little getting used to, the thumbhole is comfortable but just different from what I'm used to so I had to try different hand placement a couple of times. Having magazines it freaking awesome especially since I'm a lefty so top loading is annoying because I usually have to break from the rifle. It's got a 30moa Badger base with Vortex PST on it. The scope came from my old 700 and is perfectly functional within what a .308 can do. Wasn't super crazy about the trigger, it was smooth but a bit heavy, it's adjustable so I'll have to play with it.
Check out muzzle blast pattern in the sand...
Top group was the first group I shot. It's five rounds all touching except for the first shot. The horizontal string is primarily because I had an orange sticker for point of aim but the second round pushed it through the target so I ended up aiming at the edges of the bullet holes as I could see the yellow easily from 100yds.
The bottom group was shot with my Magnetospeed attached to the barrel. This is a 7 round group. This was my old 700s pet load and I already had 70 rounds ready to g before I got the 5R so I figured I'd see how it performed, and it did really well. Will definitely keep this load:
168gr SMK
42.5gr TAC
CCI BR2
Lapua brass
OAL 2.805"
2685fps SD10 ES 22
Did some load development with 175gr Nosler CC and Varget. I have to say this rifle is accurate and once I get used to the stock and trigger more we'll be looking even better
Decided to go long a little bit. Shot this at 935ish yards. This was 5 rounds with 4 hits. Group was pretty ugly because I was alone so no spotter and I couldn't hear the feed back from the target so I though I was missing and made adjustments.
View from the target to shooting spot. Arrow points to be car.
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Put it in an AICS 1.5. Took a little getting used to, the thumbhole is comfortable but just different from what I'm used to so I had to try different hand placement a couple of times. Having magazines it freaking awesome especially since I'm a lefty so top loading is annoying because I usually have to break from the rifle. It's got a 30moa Badger base with Vortex PST on it. The scope came from my old 700 and is perfectly functional within what a .308 can do. Wasn't super crazy about the trigger, it was smooth but a bit heavy, it's adjustable so I'll have to play with it.
Check out muzzle blast pattern in the sand...
Top group was the first group I shot. It's five rounds all touching except for the first shot. The horizontal string is primarily because I had an orange sticker for point of aim but the second round pushed it through the target so I ended up aiming at the edges of the bullet holes as I could see the yellow easily from 100yds.
The bottom group was shot with my Magnetospeed attached to the barrel. This is a 7 round group. This was my old 700s pet load and I already had 70 rounds ready to g before I got the 5R so I figured I'd see how it performed, and it did really well. Will definitely keep this load:
168gr SMK
42.5gr TAC
CCI BR2
Lapua brass
OAL 2.805"
2685fps SD10 ES 22
Did some load development with 175gr Nosler CC and Varget. I have to say this rifle is accurate and once I get used to the stock and trigger more we'll be looking even better
Decided to go long a little bit. Shot this at 935ish yards. This was 5 rounds with 4 hits. Group was pretty ugly because I was alone so no spotter and I couldn't hear the feed back from the target so I though I was missing and made adjustments.
View from the target to shooting spot. Arrow points to be car.
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