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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    308win. I have 4 different loads for it. 168 ELD-Ms which I have taken game at 400 yards+, 160 FTX as a soft shooting bush load, 190 Sub-X subsonic load which I have shot everything from rabbits to deer with and a new 110 Maker TRex load which I have only made one kill with as yet. Keen to see how that goes over time. I just find it a very versatile rig.
    Tempted for a 5th? 90gn XTP subs makes a great small game option... 4.5gn of powder (in mine) makes hardly a peep with a suppressor!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shearer View Post
    308win. I have 4 different loads for it. 168 ELD-Ms which I have taken game at 400 yards+, 160 FTX as a soft shooting bush load, 190 Sub-X subsonic load which I have shot everything from rabbits to deer with and a new 110 Maker TRex load which I have only made one kill with as yet. Keen to see how that goes over time. I just find it a very versatile rig.
    interesting you have looked at 110 grain -with DOC back in eighties I was given 200 rounds of ex NZFS 110 grain .308 little stubby nosed bullet - My boss at Opotiki said the goat cullers did not like it - gave it to me to shoot some escappee goats Waioeka gorge - dropped deer well - but in my 18 1/2 barrel 788 was not nice to shoot bloody hell it was noisy ( no suppressors then ) no wonder the Goat boys Opotiki did not like it - was not pleasant to shoot at all

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    Me,
    Kimber Adirondack in 308 running 190gr SUB-X @ 1060fps and another Adirondack in 6.5CM to push a little further.
    Anyone got another caliber that they want to sell?
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    There's been a bit of a rejig in my rack, if it's a lone mission the dear old 1920s Mauser Oberndorf original sporting rifle "Kurz"model rebuilt in 6.5x47L still gets a walk, but it's not suppressed. Since I've been mostly hunting in company recently, if it's wallabies/goats/fallow the Schultz and Larsen Legacy in 223 gets the call, if there's the possibility of anything bigger then it's a fairly recent addition that I'm enjoying shooting a lot - a Kimber Hunter in 308.
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    mine has to be my 18inch 300 saum built on a defiance ruckus action , proof barrel, march scope and manners stock, load developed for 178g @ 2950fps, and we dropped a stag at 628m 2 weeks ago uptop of the tarasuas,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Larskramer View Post
    mine has to be my 18inch 300 saum built on a defiance ruckus action , proof barrel, march scope and manners stock, load developed for 178g @ 2950fps, and we dropped a stag at 628m 2 weeks ago uptop of the tarasuas,
    Great caliber and set up. There would be a bit of pressure on those bolt lugs?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    Great caliber and set up. There would be a bit of pressure on those bolt lugs?
    she does kick like a bit of a mule, but the muzzle braked suppressor helps there alot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry the hunter View Post
    interesting you have looked at 110 grain -with DOC back in eighties I was given 200 rounds of ex NZFS 110 grain .308 little stubby nosed bullet - My boss at Opotiki said the goat cullers did not like it - gave it to me to shoot some escappee goats Waioeka gorge - dropped deer well - but in my 18 1/2 barrel 788 was not nice to shoot bloody hell it was noisy ( no suppressors then ) no wonder the Goat boys Opotiki did not like it - was not pleasant to shoot at all
    The 110 Makers are a machined all copper projectile, so a slightly different kettle of fish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Larskramer View Post
    she does kick like a bit of a mule, but the muzzle braked suppressor helps there alot.
    I think he’s referring to how hot that load is when talking about recoil lugs not how much of a dirty little horse she is on your shoulder
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    Bolt lugs sorry

 

 

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