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[NM_Shooter]

I took my 300 win mag T/C Encore out tonight.  I guess I don't know what I was expecting, but that sure was not it. 

That is a scary round.  I loaded up 168grn Barnes Triple Shocks with 71g of H4350.  My chrony said the average was 3295fps (!!!) through a 26" barrel.  SD was very tight... only 15fps from slow to fast.  Yikes.  Recoil from that light gun (no muzzle brake) was substantial, and I usually don't mind recoil.  I shoot JC Garand matches with a 1903A3 and don't notice the recoil. 

I sighted in 2.250" high at 100 yards, and shot a couple rounds at 200 to check the 200 zero.  At 200 it was 3" high.  I need to take a look at a ballistic calculator and see what is going on.  The scope is not mounted that high.

[MountainDon]

I'd like to see/hear that sometime.   

[NM_Shooter]

Okay...Looks to me as though it is currently set for about a 300yd zero.  Playing with the ballistic calculator it looks as though 250 yds is the magic path... no more than about 2" deflection across that range.  

I think that in order to do real load development though, I am going to need a lead sled.

[NM_Shooter]

I'd like to see/hear that sometime.   

Heck you can shoot it if you want.  Let's find time for another range day. 

Bring your hockey mask.  Shooting off the bench, I dented my nose twice on the scope   

[peternap]

Okay...Looks to me as though it is currently set for about a 300yd zero.  Playing with the ballistic calculator it looks as though 250 yds is the magic path... no more than about 2" deflection across that range.  

I think that in order to do real load development though, I am going to need a lead sled.

That's why they invented ATV's

Sounds like you had fun though.

Now if you want recoil, I built a single shot .308 on a skeletonized aluminum frame. The butt is 1/2" wide and it makes you want to cry when you fire it. Sure is easy to pack though.

[Whitlock]

I'd like to see/hear that sometime.   

From which end

[rwanders]

A friend brought out a beautiful Browning 458 he had just bought to a range I was at----laid prone in the pea gravel and, I swear he slid backwards three inches when he lit that bad boy off. I never found out what kind of round/load he was firing-----he only fired one round and decided it was time to leave (He looked llke he was suffering a little buyer's remorse.)

[harry51]

I had a Winchester M70 express rifle in .458. Shot it a bit, never prone(!) and eventually decided that in the absence of a charging rhino, my .375 H&H would be all I'd likely ever need, and sold it. Those 500 grain factory loads pack a wallop at both ends!

Once read about a guy writing an article on an old british 8 bore black powder cartridge double bbl. dangerous game rifle (actually smoothbore until about the last 3 or 4 inches, then rifled). He was shooting it at a Southern Calif range, and a guy asked to try it. He agreed, the guy fired one shot prone and it broke his collarbone! This was a rifle that approached 20 lbs in weight.

[rwanders]

  My same friend used his 458 once more that I knew of----we were hunting caribou in Paxson, Alaska and he made a nice shot from about 200 yards-----the 458 entered dead on a forequarter and exited the opposite forequarter---when we got up to the very dead caribou we found that entire forequarter lying several feet beyond the caribou----he decided he had a little excess for anything less than a charging grizzly or polar bear here in Alaska. I don't think he ever used it again but it was a beautiful rifle!