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That sir is one incredibly great looking rifle! Thanks Woody, it was built on the cheap with seconds and close outs. It shouldn't have turned out as well as it did. I wanted to do a .318 Westley Richards on it but common sense prevailed and it became a .338-06
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Love mine, 338-06AI. Built on a Sako m75 Greywolf with new 24" barrel. Shoots 225gr AB's and TTSX superbly.
I went AI, just to be different.
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I use WW -06 brass and the cream of wheat method.
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I use WW -06 brass and the cream of wheat method.
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[quote=TC1]I very much like mine. It's not an AI and runs on regular. It's over kill for the small Mississippi white tail I hunt with it but who cares. Mine really likes the Hornady 200gr SST's. Gorgeous piece of wood
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I like the non-AI version... otherwise I'd go 338 WM. Have had both...
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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using 280 brass instead of 06 brass ( the chamber has to be able to accept it), you can gain another 100 fps or equal a 338 Win Mag.... loaded one for a friend who went that route.. but he still had it labeled as a 338/06, when it was really a 338/280
Explain please! Once it's fireformed what difference does it make? Have you got it throated longer or something? Mike yeah it does have a longer throat.. as the 280 brass is longer... I use Win 280 brass for my 338/06... as I like Win Brass and I also like that it is nickle, making it stand out from the 06 brass I use for my 06s... I do have to trim it tho....I bought about 6 or 7 bags IIRC, or 280 Win brass at a place that let me have it for about $8 or $9 a bag at the time... because it wasn't selling... I also formed some of the same brass down, to use in a 7mm Mauser... that is nickle plated...and shoot it in a Featherweight model 70 and the regular 7 mm Brass signifies it goes to my Ruger in 7 x 57.
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Cool thanks for the follow up.
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[quote=TC1]I very much like mine. It's not an AI and runs on regular. It's over kill for the small Mississippi white tail I hunt with it but who cares. Mine really likes the Hornady 200gr SST's. Gorgeous piece of wood boy if that doesn't win the top prize for a "thrown together" rifle.... the ones you 'put some time in for' must be nothing short of awesome.
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Nice rifles fellas.Just recently been messin with the Barnes 160 TTSX as "I feel the need for speed" after my initial indoctrination of heavies under 3K. This offering barks on the heels of the WM out of my 28" tube but of course doesn't carry the holy grail BC that the bigger heavies do. I've never been anal or get worked up much over lower BC's as these bullets have been killing critters effectively without the hype therefore I let my top turret do its job.Think this Barnes offering will be good to go for deer or speed goats out to 500+. I think you'll like those 160s. They sure worked well on a bull when launched at ~3040. You should be able to exceed that handily.
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I very much like mine. It's not an AI and runs on regular. It's over kill for the small Mississippi white tail I hunt with it but who cares. Mine really likes the Hornady 200gr SST's. That is a beauty. wow. Also, how do those 200 SSTs work on game. They seemed a little fragile in my tests, but they were quite accurate, and magazines aren't game.
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I'm getting ready to put a new barrel on my Win M70, 25-06 with a burned out barrel. I've run the ballistics and this is a hard-hitting gun at the ranges I shook elk. I'm pretty excited.
I'm thinking a Shilen 26", contour #3, 1 in 10" twist with break...
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I'm thinking a Shilen 26" 22", contour #3, 1 in 10" twist with break
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I have used the standard offering. Feeds slick, plenty of power, just neck up .30-06 and go. I don't have one just now, but I have kept the dies. I have an early Sako spotted so maybe......jack
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I'm thinking a Shilen 26" 22", contour #3, 1 in 10" twist with break That's the direction I'd go. I'd only run a 26" barrel on something like a 257 weatherby, and maybe not even then!
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I'm thinking a Shilen 26" 22", contour #3, 1 in 10" twist with break +1! [img:left] [/img]
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boy if that doesn't win the top prize for a "thrown together" rifle....
the ones you 'put some time in for' must be nothing short of awesome.
It was still a lot of work Here is how it broke down. I got the action on close out from Legacy Sports for $250. They called this a double square bridge Safari M98. It's no Granite Mountian but a decent action for the money. It came with the hinged, straddle plate bottom metal and the 3 postion safety. The "guild" half round half octagon barrel with the full length integral rib was purchased on ebay (back when you could buy and sell barrels there) for the tidy sum of $125! It was an 8X57J chambering and the bore looked like a sewer pipe. It was sent to Clearwater Re-boring (Jim Dubel) and re-bored to .338 Clay over at Luxus Walnut found that blank for me out of his reject pile. He claims it be a $1400 blank but it had a very deep bark pocket in the butt area that would never turn all the way out and sold it to me for $450. The pattern has a lot of drop in it which helps a bunch and it and the blank was sent to Shane Thompson who is a master at layout. He couldn't "miss" the bark pocket so he centered it perfectly as possible and that made it a whole lot easier to work with. Shane also sent back a lot of the scrap trimmings from the blank so I could do a "patch" for it (pictured above.) I already owned the pattern and did the stock work myself with the exception of the checking which is one of Tim Lyon Smith's cheaper patterns. I paid full price for the gunsmithing but that only consisted of the barrel install and a new bolt handle followed by a rust blue and I did the stock work myself which saved me a LOT of cash. All finished up the complete rifle cost less than the barrel would have if purchased new. PRM, I've experienced "blow ups" with the Honady SST's in the .270 caliber but have had good luck with them in the .338-06. Terry
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Awesome!! This is my first experience with a 338/06 but only in Pro Hunter attire but certainly won't be my last as I do prefer beautiful wood and blued steel.Got a great buy on the barrel {T/C's custom shop}from a member several years back that didn't reload but figured it was a frugal way of discovery.The 28" tube was not by choice but is quite manageable and does sport some interesting velocities,most recently with this Barnes 160 at a tad over 3100..
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
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Mine's a rebored 270, pretty basic. It's first critter, taken in 1995 with the 210 gr Partition. Bang, one step turn and flop.
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