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Just got off the phone with JES. He needs a muzzle diameter of .560 for a 9.3x62. That's what he told me for the 35 Whelen rebore. It's one or the other. 560 sounds pretty thin for 9.3 that's only .097" per side. If it's too thin is going to be more prone to damage as well.
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Have JES cut an inch off the barrel. I bet it shoots even better.
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I'll cut off as much as i can but trying to preserve the front sight
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As I mentioned earlier - my JES 9.3 x 62 is very accurate, but my 19" Springfield 338-06 has never impressed, and has been erratic in accuracy. I've drawn an elk tag in AZ this year and hope to "bloody" the 338-06. After the last range session, I finally discovered the rear weaver scope base was drilled a little crooked and had a lot of stress on the scope. So I bedded both bases, lapped the rings true to one another, glassed the lower half of the rings to get them perfectly aligned, and smoothed some burrs off the inside of the top half steel rings. Rather than mount the previous scope, it now wears the Leupold 2.5x compact I had planned for it from the beginning. Heading to the range in an hour and hoping for some improvement and consistency. Will report. Rex
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Don't overlook heavier weight bullets up to 265gn.
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Don't overlook heavier weight bullets up to 265gn. Thanks AGW. I have almost 600 x .338 Hornady 250 gr RN Interlock in my stash as well, and I think they'd be well suited also for this little rifle. I can pretty much duplicate the 250 gr. factory .318 Westley Richards load at about 2400' with those. Rex
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Not a lot better with this load. Going to try some others. And I am kind if psyched to run those 250 Hornady RNs at 318 Westley Richards numbers. I'm "minute of moose" with everything - it'd just be nice to get tightened up a little bit.
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I like the 210 Partition in 338-06
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When I hit 2400 FPS with the 250 RN she shot at 1.2 MOA, which ain't bad. Will try to reproduce that this week. Also hoping to get the 225 SP Interlock shooting better than it is. We'll see. Rex
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