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DJ, what kinds of speeds was 45/748 getting you with the 168 SMK?
2600 or so?

Many thx

Dober

+1 Brad,nice shooting BTW. Great backdrop for the rifle as well.

Even a dumb Norwegian concrete worker can figure them out.....grin

This will be my first season with the dots. Given the right conditons 400-450 yards shouldn't be a problem.
Practice pays off.

Well, make that two "Dumb Norwegians"...

lol!

I'm just a dumb Mick... I've always just zero'd a rifle at 200, and used the bottom "Pickett" for 400 yards, and split the difference at 300. However I'm really thinking about a fixed 6 with dots for the 308, and I think the Montana in 338 Federal will get the fixed 4.

Brad, I can't believe you think you can kill an Elk with a 30-06... Are you serious? A 180 Partition going 2700-2800 FPS will never bring down one of Montana's Kevlar furred monsters on 4 hooves...

I may have to shoot one with a rifle this year. It's been kind of a screwed up rut this September. I know, I know... I really need my head examined for trying to kill an Elk with a 3 blade broadhead connected to a 560 grain arrow going 170 FPS Tomorrow is my last Vacation day too... It's not looking good for Dan Boy.

I'm just a dumb "ski" and even I can sort out the dotz thingy

Perhaps a few of us Montana boyz and whoever wishes to join in the fray should snipe a few deer/lopes/elks/ and bruins this fall with our lil 308's just to make sure it can work...

Dober

(side note I've found the 308 to be so eager to please that I am now calling it the Lab of rounds, do it all and wants to please. Albeit the true nickname for mine is the Tortoise rifle.

I dunno Mark, did you see how much crap I gave Brad for calling his 308 an Elk rifle?? Now he's got me wanting to try some 180 Partitions in mine. Someone on here once said that the 1:12 twist that Kimber used wouldn't do a very good job stabilizing the 165ers on up. I think Brad and I proved that wrong. My Montana doesn't like any 150's. But in all fairness, the worst group with the 150's was around 1 1/2 MOA. It routinely puts 165's of various flavors sub 3/4" at 100 yards. That reminds me, I need to clean that barrel it's been sub-moa for the last 100 rounds since I cleaned it.

I clean my barrels every 100 rounds weather they need it or not

Mark, you're in luck, the only two rifles I really have ready in time this year are both of my Montanas. I'll just have to put a fixed 4 on top of the 338 Federal too. But I promise ya's, I'll shoot all my critters this fall with one Kimber or the other.

I look forward to Dober's fall Montanas in Montana picture thread

Mine liked 165's(Hornady, Sierra, and Barnes), with BLC-2 and WLRM primer in remington brass