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Savage .300 Win in an A5 Mcmillan topped with a 6.5x20 Leupold MKIV.

With 185 Scenars in neck turned and painstakingly prepared brass it averages .39 at 100 yards and .96 at 300 yards.

I have not had time to stretch this one out due to being out of the country working, but I fully intend to give it a thorough wringing out when I get home next month.

Edited to add, the pic is of the 300 yard target. You can see the initial group on the center left before I made windage corrections.

My son likes to hunt with levers. When I'm in the mood I'll reach out with a tang sight.

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Lately I've been using a little less precision.

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The workhorse, 300 RUM:



The plinker/light rifle, 7mm-08:



While not really a "long range" rifle this one and I go back even farther than the 300. I made my first "long range" kill with it well over 20 years ago. A cow elk at about 300 yds, the one and only elk we saw that entire trip. Doesn't seem very "long" these days, but before laser rangefinders and tacticool scopes made things so easy and 20 years of experience ago, that was a pretty long shot for me at the time.

Here is my bean field gun. Custom Encore in .264 Win Mag topped with a V-TAC. The forend is a VVG hanger bar floating rig. Farthes deer so far is 620 yards. A bunch over 400 yards though. Under right conditions I will try a 800 yard shot from the field and if resting accross my scouts hood on bags I will go 1000 yards on deer. Bullets out to 650 yards are the 120gr Ballistic tip. Past that the 130gr accubond or 140gr Berger vld. I am a crop sniper and use this rifle on the longer fields. reflex264

Remington 40x. 308, but gets the job done. The rifle has had some extensive mods since this photo was taken.

Here's my new custom .300 Win Mag from Patriot Arms.

Reflex

How accurate is that encore? I"ve not been impressed with that platform so far. ok accuracy but not what I'd expect from a good bolt gun.

Jeff

Something diferent,Pedersoli Quigley. 45-70
Doc

Hey Jeff. This one with over 2100 shots down the tube as of last week is still a 1/2" rifle but up to 1000 shots it was a 1/4" rifle. This is using 3 shot groups. It sure didn't start that way. To get it to this level was an act of congress to say the least. On the other hand I have 30-06 factory barrel that will shot about anything you stick in it into 3/4" or less and have one load that will shoot .30" . My experience with encores is you either have feast or famine. If they could build them more consistent they would have a real go getter. The barrel to frame fit is set up on jigs as go/no go. If you get a frame at one extreme and a barrel at the other you probalby aren't going to get it to shoot. On the other hand if you get a tight extreme on both pieces you have a tack driver. reflex264

Very interesting. I was not impressed with my MZ Encore at all, even after quite a bit of work, but then sometimes I expect too much.

Jeff

Reflex,
Is getting the TC up and running kind of like a Rug #1, ie lots of tweaking, praying and an occasional sacrifice? I still dream of a #1 in something big like a .338RUM but my hair is already gray and I dont need it to be falling out as well.

Todd

In order to get it to shoot I had to install a Bellm 1x pin,size the brass to fit the chamber (have to add .006" to sizing length), use the VVG hanger system and then find the bullets it liked. Was it worth it? Probably. I use this gun in situations where I need to be mobile and sometimes travel through brush. Even with its 26" barrel the action allows for a very short OAL. I might step out of a thicket into a beanfield with the deer over 500 yards out in the field. reflex264

Truthfully my number 1's all shot good from the get go. I have a gent that is going to bring me a 7mag he says he can't get to shoot. More than likely a little adjusting on the forend and a little load work and it will be a shooter to. I have a friend that bought a .204 #1 and it shot .25" 5 shot groups out of the box with factory ammo. No kidding. even my .416 Rigby #1 is accurate. I wouldn't be scared to start that project at all. The
#1 is a pretty solid platform without the clearence problems of the encore. reflex264

I've never seen so many left handed long range rifles in one forum. WOW. Nice stuff guys.

Twin 338 Edges I built for my brother and I

Good good stuff guys. My biggest problem with the Encore is the practice work. Every time you shoot you have to redo everything to shoot again. The #1 everything stays the same on the bags. To each his own certainly, but a number 1 or a good bolt action is so hard to beat for long range shooting because there is no room for error if you desire to hit what you shoot at. What amazes me is the Savage rifles out of the box. How does something so ugly shoot so good. I have seen model 12 after model 12 literally shoot 1 1/2 at 600 yards straight out of the box, and the real kicker is with factory ammo. Are you kidding me, how do they do that? Six inch groups at that range are common and I am not talking about one or two rifles, I have seen five all bought by friends do the same thing. Certainly conditions are perfect to shoot that well, but I have seen customs costing thousands more outshot by the Savages over and over.

This is my longest range rifle

Nice!

What's the bazooka on the tripod there? :-)

My guess is range finder.

Yep.

Maybe it is my eyes, but it looks like some serious elevation built into that mounting setup on that rifle.