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    beetroot replied to the thread .308 Winchester.
    For hunting purposes I think the only other bullet worth trying would be the 155TMK. The Sierra 155gr Palma MK has a good BC and should...
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    beetroot reacted to JerkyFreak's post in the thread .308 Winchester with Like Like.
    I only get better groups from the 155gr ELDM's when the bullets were loaded >0.050" from the lands. If you have to use ELDM, get better...
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    beetroot replied to the thread Low light hunting scope FFP?.
    Will be interested to hear your thoughts, Apex scopes get very little mention compared to other brands.
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    beetroot replied to the thread .308 Winchester.
    As a bit of background, I was hoping to shoot factory ammo with the rifle/barrel but the match ammo I got (cheap) left a lot to be...
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    beetroot replied to the thread .308 Winchester.
    I'll just try 44gr in the Hornady brass and hope for the best. I don't have much of it, but if it looks promising I can pickup once...
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    beetroot reacted to Rob01's post in the thread .308 Winchester with Like Like.
    I use Hornady brass and top of my head my load was around 44.5grns. Shouldn’t be too hard to swap over.
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    beetroot replied to the thread .308 Winchester.
    I'll try some of the Hornady brass I've got, then look at turning the powder charge. I didn't really want to start reloading another...
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    beetroot replied to the thread .308 Winchester.
    That's the answer I wanted to hear. Thinking about it I have some other once fired brass I could try easily enough (Federal, Hornady...
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    beetroot replied to the thread 7 SWC for PRS.
    Any updates on this cartridge, or has it died already? Maybe 7 backcountry killed it off.
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    I'd have thought 284win or 7-6.5prc would be the easiest depending what bolt face you wanted to do. If you want to play with wildcats...
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    beetroot replied to the thread .308 Winchester.
    I did an extremely lazy load development for my 308, ended up loading: 44.0gr of Varget, 168gr ELD-Ms, .020 off lands, WRE LR primers...
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    Spoke to the guys I was shooting with, and they were using a variety of different bullets: 208 ELDs, 200.20x Bergers, 155SMKs, 155.5gr...
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    Some rifle obligatory rifle pictures.
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    308 certainly recoil more than 22lr, but getting better at controlling recoil. Added the adjustable butt pad which definitely helped...
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    Finally starting to get the rifle out more frequently now I'm doing less rimfire. Took the rifle to an NRA shoot (FTR, F class, etc)...
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