So I got up to the range today with a friend of mine and his new stick. He's been putting things together for a while and finally got it all in one pile.
The gun is a .308 Remington 700 varmint that has been chopped at 22, and threaded for a brake/suppresor, the X mark trigger was disposed of and replaced with an older pss trigger. The whole thing was mounted in a BC stock, and topped with the bushnell elite 3-12X44 mil/mil.
After some load work up, my buddy had decided on 42.8 gr of H4895 and a 178 Amax. He was working on some different seating depths to see how they patterned, and was getting some okay results. He asked me if I wanted to try a group with it to see if I could make a better one than him, the results were about the same, so so.
I figured we may as well shoot a couple of my .308 loads through it to see if they did any better, we were pleasantly surprised. I shot the fist one and was pleased to see a very slight change in POI, and as I continued with another 4 rounds, we were both smiling
My pet .308 load is 44.0gr of RL-15 and 175 SMK. Now he's pissed that he still has a box and a half of 178 Amax's and may have to start buying RL-15 and 175 SMK's. We'll see.
Here are both his gun and my Savage 10fcp.
This was my first experience behind these newer Bushnell's, I was impressed with the image, very clear and bright. The only thing that kind of bugged both me and the scopes owner was what seemed to be a touchy eye relief/focus issue. When you where on the gun, if you moved your head just slightly, the reticle became unfocused in relationship to the target. It may be a simple adjustment need be made, or that may be the way these scopes are. It wasn't a huge problem, and I'm sure you could probably get used to it, but I could also see my eye getting fatigued pretty quick if I had to deal with it much.
The turrets were solid, nice crisp clicks. I thought we had a tracking issue for just a moment, but it turns out that another gentleman had shot at our target, very confusing for a minute.
I'm excited to see how this rifle continues to perform.
The gun is a .308 Remington 700 varmint that has been chopped at 22, and threaded for a brake/suppresor, the X mark trigger was disposed of and replaced with an older pss trigger. The whole thing was mounted in a BC stock, and topped with the bushnell elite 3-12X44 mil/mil.
After some load work up, my buddy had decided on 42.8 gr of H4895 and a 178 Amax. He was working on some different seating depths to see how they patterned, and was getting some okay results. He asked me if I wanted to try a group with it to see if I could make a better one than him, the results were about the same, so so.
I figured we may as well shoot a couple of my .308 loads through it to see if they did any better, we were pleasantly surprised. I shot the fist one and was pleased to see a very slight change in POI, and as I continued with another 4 rounds, we were both smiling
My pet .308 load is 44.0gr of RL-15 and 175 SMK. Now he's pissed that he still has a box and a half of 178 Amax's and may have to start buying RL-15 and 175 SMK's. We'll see.
Here are both his gun and my Savage 10fcp.
This was my first experience behind these newer Bushnell's, I was impressed with the image, very clear and bright. The only thing that kind of bugged both me and the scopes owner was what seemed to be a touchy eye relief/focus issue. When you where on the gun, if you moved your head just slightly, the reticle became unfocused in relationship to the target. It may be a simple adjustment need be made, or that may be the way these scopes are. It wasn't a huge problem, and I'm sure you could probably get used to it, but I could also see my eye getting fatigued pretty quick if I had to deal with it much.
The turrets were solid, nice crisp clicks. I thought we had a tracking issue for just a moment, but it turns out that another gentleman had shot at our target, very confusing for a minute.
I'm excited to see how this rifle continues to perform.
