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Nice find.
Uncle has a 243 and a coyote hunting bud has one in 6mm.
All of these that I have been around over the years were shooters.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Well, now that hunting season is over, I put an older Zeiss Conquest on the Varmint Special. Shot 120 gr NBT's over 45 grs of Varget.
What a pleasure it is to shoot! Low recoil. The muzzle stays down and the rifle comes back softly.
Without any load tweaking, it shoots 3/4 MOA consistently. I have to shoot it again out to 550 yards at the range. Can't wait.
Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is.
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After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb
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Same bullet in Lapua brass with 48.5/49.0 gr. of Big Game.
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice.
Doug
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What velocity are you getting? I averaged 3037 fps with that 24" barrel.
Have a 20" barrel 7-08 that gets 2990 fps. The extra 4" did not put out much more speed.
Faith and love of others knows no mileage nor bounds. That's simply the way it is.
dogzapper
After the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb
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Save for the 300 Win Mag there are few rifles I own that don't run Lapua brass. That's not an accident. Looks like a sweet rifle.
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120 NBT, 51.5 grains Big Game (1/2 grain under max, work up) with a WLRM got me 3126 fps out of a 22 7/16” Tikka.
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Congrats... I have a later VLS in 260 Rem, first year production...
and a barrel that was taken off of one...in 260... that was getting rebarreled to 6 BR...
the take off barrel was never shot, because the rifle was bought real cheap..
it had been on a shelf 3 or 4 years collecting dust, because no one bought it..
guess they are an acquired taste if not in a traditional varmint caliber...
myself, I love em!
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What velocity are you getting? I averaged 3037 fps with that 24" barrel.
Have a 20" barrel 7-08 that gets 2990 fps. The extra 4" did not put out much more speed.
Sakoluvr, 3143 to 3190 fps. The barrel is 22” and the 48.5 load seems to be a little bit more accurate than the faster 49.0 gr. load. Don’t take me wrong, I love Varget. As a matter of fact, it is my go to in my 6.5 Creedmoor and in my 308 Winchester. It is just that I get better results in 7mm-08 with Big Game.
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice.
Doug
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