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I for one still miss Bob's posts. He cut to the chase without talking down to anyone and was quite willing to share his considerable knowledge.

For sure. He's the ultimate one who pushed me over the 7mm Mashburn Super edge..

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50 yards? At least brush the unburned powder off the coyote!

Ha ha.. You see the little tiny pock marks in the same spot. I was hitting him there the other day with my 204 ruger.. Didn't even make him bleed!!!

You have no clue how my CTR shoots.

Yeah, I knew it would be pretty good. Someone carried and hunted the heck out of it. Guys don't do that unless they shoot well. Right over the head of the yote is the yardage sign posted in the background on the backstop. I've been pretty lucky as far as classics go (knock on wood). The worst one I saw was a 7 digit 7WSM that the scope mounts were not drilled perfectly in line with the bore. I think I did something goofy like oblong one hole in the mount and I was good to go. No other issues with that rifle. Triggers have generally been pretty easy to fine tune. This is a pretty good rifle. I'm pretty impressed with the initial range day. Load is what I worked up for the 7mm stainless classic boss last week:


I was pretty happy with the 300 yard grouping I got, so I flung 5 shots downrange just for schidts and giggles:

Yeah, this load was not developed for this rifle and it is a "hunting rifle". First time out with an arbitrary load shows pretty good promise. Not trying to impress anyone, just good honest targets, as per usual. The funny thing was I was using the dope from my 300WBY sheet, since I thought I was done with my classic stainless BOSS and stapled that to the targets the other day. Didn't even have the 7mm rem mag sheet in the range bag, but I had previously printed off the 300WBY dope sheet the other day and had that in the range bag. That was after shooting it at 400!! "A day late and a dollar short". Kind of a cluster, but it was 4.7 MOA up at 400 yards. I haven't even compared that to the actual sheet I have stapled to the targets. Probably pretty damn close though, as The groups seemed to be pretty centered on the orange dot I was shooting at. Not impressive groups, but that scope is severely lacking in the clarity department and the reticle kept doubling up on me. May have been my eyes, but even my cheaper Burris FFII's don't do that.. Still on the fence about the Leupold. For damn sure not going to send it in because they will keep the SOB and it's better than any new scope they make..

If that's what you've been shooting I'd stick with it, for matches. Don't alternate rifles/cartridges as it will just complicate your wind calls.