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<blockquote data-quote="Clark" data-source="post: 1017001" data-attributes="member: 6600"><p>That is a Browning 7mmRM Winchester 1885 made in Japan in 1994 and purchased used from SWFA on gunbroker by me in 2013. I was shooting 140 gr Ballistic Tips at 3400 fps with a Sightron 3.5x10 scope. I have a Harris swivel bi pod in the front and two rear bags, one mounted to the cheek rest with an elastic string.</p><p></p><p>That rifle is crazy accurate, but not fast to reload when the big scope is in the way of the fingers. I have a 7mmRM Ruger #1 with a 1.75x6 scope that shoots like a machine gun from the prone position.</p><p></p><p>I had a couple 260 bolt actions rifles I built with premium barrels on that trip, but they could not perform like the 1885, so the 1885 was what I hunted with.</p><p></p><p>I would have shot it last year, but the scope mounts did not look right. The tapered Octagon needs a slight slope on the front mount. I just put shims under it until the scope with the reticle in the center of the tube would line up with the Leupold zero point bore sighter [modified with green LED].</p><p></p><p>Here is a target with a 3.6" 3 shot group at 450 yards. And I shot a deer with it a week later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clark, post: 1017001, member: 6600"] That is a Browning 7mmRM Winchester 1885 made in Japan in 1994 and purchased used from SWFA on gunbroker by me in 2013. I was shooting 140 gr Ballistic Tips at 3400 fps with a Sightron 3.5x10 scope. I have a Harris swivel bi pod in the front and two rear bags, one mounted to the cheek rest with an elastic string. That rifle is crazy accurate, but not fast to reload when the big scope is in the way of the fingers. I have a 7mmRM Ruger #1 with a 1.75x6 scope that shoots like a machine gun from the prone position. I had a couple 260 bolt actions rifles I built with premium barrels on that trip, but they could not perform like the 1885, so the 1885 was what I hunted with. I would have shot it last year, but the scope mounts did not look right. The tapered Octagon needs a slight slope on the front mount. I just put shims under it until the scope with the reticle in the center of the tube would line up with the Leupold zero point bore sighter [modified with green LED]. Here is a target with a 3.6" 3 shot group at 450 yards. And I shot a deer with it a week later. [/QUOTE]
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