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    Measuring 100 yards accurately?

    If 100 yards is all you need, you can get cheapo rangefinders for 150 bucks that will do that.
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    The 155 Scenar, and 2156 MK are lighter, longer overall, and with a shorter bearing surface require a faster twist to optimally stabilize. I am saying you can require a faster twist with a shorter bearing surface with some of the very long and lighter bullets.
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    In this instance yes, however not necessarily. For instance a 155 Scenar is longer than a 175 Smk and has a shorter bearing surface, same with the new 2156 155 MK palma match bullets. Technically, they would be optimally stabilized at a faster twist than the old 175MK, it is heavier, shorter...
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    Yes, adding more bearing surface will increase the weight more than an equal amount of additional length on an ogive or BT, that's fairly intuitive. What I am saying however, is that you can increase the non-bearing surface length of a bullet to a point where a faster twist would be optimal...
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    Yes that was my understanding as well, I'm not quite sure why we started talking about bearing surface though. The reason I brought up the weight thing, was that people can get caught up talking about weights (generally a heavier bullet is longer) they forget that lighter bullets (like a scenar...
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    Is bearing surface length the only consideration for stability? Not asking a rhetorical question here, it has been my understanding that the total length of the projectile was what determined it's required stability factor.
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    People keep talking about weight here, my 155 Scenar is only .020 shorter than my 178 Amaxes and its significantly longer than any 168 HPBT I'm aware of. I have not measured any >170 grain VLD's as they may exceed my Scenars average of 1.273 The more aggressive the BT the more twist you would...
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    What is the right twist rate for a .308 and why?

    It depends on what bullet you want to shoot and how long it is. Longer (Palma) barrel run slow twist because of their additional velo (its RPM's not twist rate in itself that stabilizes, so if you shoot a bullet faster through a slower twist you ARE increasing its stability factor) As barrels...
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    Barrel Life Expectancy

    Break-In & Cleaning .308 is going to last a LONG time, that's why I basically thrash the piss out of mine and don't worry, case efficiency is directly proportional to barrel life in context with pressure. In other words, any time you are using disproportionally more powder to gain more...
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    Put together my first precision rifle: Remington 700 5R

    If you spent the money on a NF scope, it would be insane to try and rationalize not reloading! Three words for you my friend. RCBS. Rockchucker. Kit. :) Good first rifle, whats funny is aside from the 5r barrel that is nearly identical to my current .308, and as far as braking a .308 hey when...
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    Rifle Scopes Scope for Rem 700 sps tactical

    Badger 20 MOA base and Badger rings. Ring height going to depend on what position(s) you shoot from and if you have an adjustable comb height, often running the scope as low as possible is what people tend to use. If you want to shoot a typical .308 out to 1k you're going to need 40+ MOA to get...
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    Accuracy opening up after 15 rounds

    I'll throw this out there for what it's worth (you didn't list your glass, and this occurrence varies with glass) I also assume 10 to 40 degrees F not C. Anyways, when I shoot strings in that cold of weather, depending on light and a few other atmospherics, I get significant heat shimmer off the...
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    Tikka T3: Show me how well they shoot.

    I don't have pics but my favorite field rifle was a Tikka T3 lightweight stainless in 06. The only thing I would have done differently was get a SA in .308. That rifle was as accurate coldbore as any I have ever owned and also had my favorite factory trigger of any rifle I have owned. The bolt...
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    Lets see if this baby can Shoot

    Im my opinion with regards to rings and scope height, while prone I like my cheek to be just slightly uncomfortable with the downforce I apply to get proper eye relief. That way, I consciously think about my order of operations each shot, If you can lay down comfortably you will forget things...
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    Your first long range rifle

    First rifle was a Remington 700 VS with a 26" heavy barrel and a Leopold vx-2 3-9. I nearly melted the barrel shooting federal 150 grain "hi-shok" softpoints (cheapest ammo I could find) by lining up used shotgun shells on a log at 100 yards. After 4 years I mounted it in a Tube chassis and...
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