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Thread: 308 a truely the under rated LR calibre and here is why...

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    I saw a 3 shot group at 600 yrds from a factory tikka 300 win mag with factory 180gr and a Waitaki Engineering muzzle break shot at 600yrs a while ago, was less than 3inches across, it had one of those Burris range finding scopes on it, dunno if I could do it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jakewire View Post
    dunno if I could do it.
    Is always the question of whether the person that did it could do it again too, the occasional fluke can happen with compensating errors but repeatability is a bigger test.

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    Exactly, a one off is cool, but doing it again is what counts.
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    We get pissed of when it getx bigger than three inchs and thats with the dirty old tikka 6.5
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    Taihape, thought minute of Gumboot was ok up there
    Solid shooting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jakewire View Post
    Taihape, thought minute of Gumboot was ok up there
    Solid shooting.
    Gumboot day tommorow to.
    Just coming back from the cake tin aftee a nail biter game of footy.
    Might have totryagumboot at thousand!
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    1200 I reckon.
    And a canes win.
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    Forum golf ball shoot.

    A golf ball is 43mm from memory, set one up with a 50 inch square cardboard backing at 500 yards, 800 yards and one at 1000yrds.

    Hours of fun and you will learn immense amounts quickly.

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    Going to have to give this a try. Owesome idea

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7mmsaum View Post
    Forum golf ball shoot.

    A golf ball is 43mm from memory, set one up with a 50 inch square cardboard backing at 500 yards, 800 yards and one at 1000yrds.

    Hours of fun and you will learn immense amounts quickly.


    Two can shoot at the same target, just vivid the ogive of your projectiles a different colour than your mate, the hole in the card will have your colour in it, closest shot wins.

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    Good idea as we are over due for a forum shoot as Philipo and myself have left the gongs out from our shoot last winter.
    They range from 550 to 1000
    Will make a plan soon!
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    @andy Nice shooting, I guess horses for courses, and value for money. A Barnard - trueflight FTR is $4.5k v $8k for a TRG...taking out the human could you shoot a good FTR as well, I would think so. Or thinking of it another way a Barnard Actioned FTR and a Barnard Actioned Hunting gun for the same money. or how accurate do you have to be to get the job done?

    Im sure the TRG is a beatiful thing, then so is a AW...interesting that these 2 at least seem to be very very good rifles, CZ750 is half the price not impressive, SV98 supposedly not impressive...

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    Quote Originally Posted by andyanimal31 View Post
    Good idea as we are over due for a forum shoot as Philipo and myself have left the gongs out from our shoot last winter.
    They range from 550 to 1000
    Will make a plan soon!
    definitely do, Ill be there with bells on again
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    @andyanimal that is exceptional shooting , period.
    - the point I was trying to make in the original post was if I was about to spend that kind of $$$ on a LR hunting combination would 308 be the best calibre option - note LR hunting option. I really like 308's - just not for $8k for a LR hunting set up?
    My thread title and thread content were deliberately a little antagonistic

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    Andy, Andy Andy, stop telling fibs... yours is hardly a "dirty old tikka 6.5". What are you going to do when you burn the barrel out on that one?



    With regards to the TRGs - no i probably wouldn't buy one for a long range hunting rifle. Too heavy and you don't need that weight in a .308. If i had sufficient disposable income i would definately buy one for long range steel competition though. I would probably look at trying to get one of the 26" barrel TRG-22s in .260 Remington though.

 

 

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