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First range trip with 700

kRcu

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I'm new to bolt rifles and started simple with a 700 SPS Tactical in .308 (20"). It came in a trade with a Larue 20MOA base, seekins rings, and an SWFA 12x42 scope.

When the rifle arrived, I noticed the hogue stock would touch the barrel and that wasn't what I wanted. I found a Manners T3 w/mini chassis on the swap here and got it in last week. I torqued everything down and went to the range this morning to sight it in.

10 shots to get it zero'd. This is a picture of the first 5-shot group with 168gr HSM. (Guess on MOA??)

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The 175gr HSM did not group well. By that time I was freezing anyway and had the scope zero'd, so I left.

I am still looking into which bipod I want (manners has a badger rail up front). Using the PRS SSP2 base on my tripod was great though.

Rifle pic.
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Excellent. I've found my 16.5" likes the 175's better due to the faster twist rate I believe. That's good looking rifle sir.
 
I'm new to bolt rifles and started simple with a 700 SPS Tactical in .308 (20"). It came in a trade with a Larue 20MOA base, seekins rings, and an SWFA 12x42 scope.

When the rifle arrived, I noticed the hogue stock would touch the barrel and that wasn't what I wanted. I found a Manners T3 w/mini chassis on the swap here and got it in last week. I torqued everything down and went to the range this morning to sight it in.

10 shots to get it zero'd. This is a picture of the first 5-shot group with 168gr HSM. (Guess on MOA??)

26E451E2-B07C-408E-8CEF-F2CA470DB0BC-50724-000017BC744C26D5_zps8c390688.jpg


The 175gr HSM did not group well. By that time I was freezing anyway and had the scope zero'd, so I left.

I am still looking into which bipod I want (manners has a badger rail up front). Using the PRS SSP2 base on my tripod was great though.

Rifle pic.
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Fine shooting! It's great to see new guns perfom well, Especially with a factory barreled action. I love the color scheme too!
 
10 shots to get it zero'd. This is a picture of the first 5-shot group with 168gr HSM. (Guess on MOA??)

good shooting! as for my guess..

If you flatten out the paper i think it will show a tighter group but based on the fact that the diamond diameter is 1.8" I am guessing those squares are 1", i took a picture with my phone of this and used my Ballistic AE app to measure based on that assumption. I got .67moa, allow for some error as i took a picture of a computer screen and the paper was not folded flat to clearly show the burn rings on the target.

keep up the good work!
 
Looks like the rifle is shooting well for a stock rifle. Develop some loads for it and shoot the crap out of it. Enjoy.
 
Thanks for the comments guys. I signed up for the online training section here and started taking notes. I don't get to shoot much, so I wanted to get the important stuff down before heading out.

I spent the week-nights dry firing in a dark room. Tried to always set-up a natural point of aim and not muscle the gun around. There is a lot of great info on this site. I am excited to get to the new range and start shooting steel from 100yds and stretch it back to 1,000.
 
Since a couple have commented about it. The color is just a light mist of tan over the black. Lightly spray a cloud over and let it dry. Looks the color of cement/concrete.
 
Welcome to the amazing (expensive) world of precision rifles!

This is truth. I thought the BCM/LMT/Noveske game was pricey. That stuff doesn't touch precision shooting costs.

Although, it was nice to only need 25 rounds yesterday for a session, rather than the usual 200-300 for the AR.
 
Nice looking rig there, and looks like she's a shooter too.

I just put 12X MRAD's on a couple of my rifles, I really like them.

I like the thin lines in the reticle. I had an SS 10x42 mildot on an AR and the reticle lines were very thick.
 
This is truth. I thought the BCM/LMT/Noveske game was pricey. That stuff doesn't touch precision shooting costs.

Although, it was nice to only need 25 rounds yesterday for a session, rather than the usual 200-300 for the AR.

My thought exactly!!! Last range trip I fired about 25rds as opposed to 350 with my AR and had a much better time too! Lol


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