Hornady 208g A-MAX in .308

[dee]

I have NO intentions of being a competive benchrest guy. I am a plinker, through and through.

The whole "problem" I am having is I am seating them into the lands and they are still extremely short. It is really cool though that I am able to get them into the lands and still feed them from the magazine. If I can't get the velocity up I will for sure go back to the 168's or 175's. I just thought it would be fun to give these 208's a try.

Run some 155 Scenar or 155Palmas through JBM at 2850-2900 and you'll surprised at how good they look and will have a little less recoil.

[dee]

I was at Alpine today and they have a 100 yd contest each day for a free T-shirt and from the winners on the wall this would have been competitive. That being said, one of the winners on the wall was a 6BR and you could not tell that he put 3 shots in that one little bitty hole. My Savage (and myself) would get raped bad at any kind of competition I think.

6mm PPC and 6mm BR are the 2 most accurate case designs out there the only other I've ever heard compared to them is the 6.5x47 Lapua.

[CJ]

6mm PPC and 6mm BR are the 2 most accurate case designs out there the only other I've ever heard compared to them is the 6.5x47 Lapua.

and 6mm has superb long range ballistics.

[dee]

and 6mm has superb long range ballistics.

What's funny about that is most BR's and PPC's are running 65-80gr bullets which aren't all that great.

[Vanner27]

Run some 155 Scenar or 155Palmas through JBM at 2850-2900 and you'll surprised at how good they look and will have a little less recoil.

I'll have to try those out. And as for the 6mm's, 6mm BR is the whole reason I bought this gun. Ideally, I want to rebarrel it, throw a brake on it and watch impacts through the scope. We will see.

[Vanner27]

At 100 yards my .223 gun shoots like that but in comparison shooting 100 yards is so easy, theres much less skill involved then there is shooting long range. So many less people do F-class it makes it competitive. Any many associations give concessions and handicaps to calibers/semi autos - which makes it interesting. Regardless your savage is shooting very well - and it's on par with many that shoot bench - at least that group is.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm not sure if it will group consistently or not as I was trying loads in .5g increments. Most were Sub-MOA, but I will load up a bunch more of this load and see how it does.

[dee]

I'll have to try those out. And as for the 6mm's, 6mm BR is the whole reason I bought this gun. Ideally, I want to rebarrel it, throw a brake on it and watch impacts through the scope. We will see.

A brake on the 308 will accomplish that.

[Vanner27]

Yeah I know, but I really want to try out the 6mm BR cartridge. Like you said it is one of the 3 most accurate cases out there. This Savage is a great platform, I think, to kind of test the waters. I don't know though, just stuff I am thinking about.

[dee]

There's nothing wrong with going that route at all and it definitely works. If you do just remember it's built for the lighter 6mm pills not the slick 100's and most if not all of the people getting outstanding results with the 2 6mm's are using FB bullets not a BT.

[Vanner27]

There's nothing wrong with going that route at all and it definitely works. If you do just remember it's built for the lighter 6mm pills not the slick 100's and most if not all of the people getting outstanding results with the 2 6mm's are using FB bullets not a BT.

I would not have thought that. Thank you very much.

[dee]

I worded that a little wrong implying it won't handle the heavy 6's when it's more that the common twist won't, the case will just at a loss in velocity compared to the more common LR 6mm's.

The guy that built my 7mm runs all 6mm PPC and uses flat base bullets from a guy named Ronnie Cheek and he flat out won't shoot anything else. You may want to look into him if you go that route.

[Vanner27]

I was talking about them running FB's instead of the BT's. Thanks for the info man. BTW, I really dig your set up in the Manners stock.

[dee]

I never new that either from what I gathered they work great inside of 300yds as long as the velocity is high enough, after that he said BT is the only choice for better wind deflection and retained velocity, my thinking is if the BT is good for the long stuff it should be equally as good at short range.

And thanks I'm really liking the stock so far just need to get some trigger time with it now.