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The Basics, Starting Out
Should I get a long range shooting or hunting gun or try to balance between the two?
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<blockquote data-quote="blvette75" data-source="post: 3014554" data-attributes="member: 72440"><p>Well when I was younger had two kids I was going to put through college, for years just had one rifle a savage 110 300 win mag. When I got older and more interested in long range hunting/shooting and bucket list hunting, I decided to expand my horizons. Have two Rifles that I have now that I am comfortable with doing both one is a CA 300 win mag, that was a Mesa then added a Modern Precision Rifle chassis(Changed the name from stock to chassis) but got both on sale so was a bit less than their MPR . Without the scope it weighs about 8.8 Lbs, with scope about 11.2 lbs. The other Rifle is a Bergara HMR in 6.5 Creedmoor, 24" barrel about 11.4 lbs with scope. Both gun manufacturers make these in 7mm PRC. There are good options with Savage, Browning and Ruger. I have a new Ruger American go live Camo, in 7 mm PRC, put a Jard trigger on it a a Bear PAW cheek rest. Still breaking it in but I consider this just a hunter, but will try to stretch it out. I am very happy with the accuracy of the rifle with Federal Premium 175 Grn ELDX about 0.5 MOA. Have not optimized a reload yet, and may still fire lap the barrel, but a $550.00 rifle I am happy weight is a little over 9lbs with scope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blvette75, post: 3014554, member: 72440"] Well when I was younger had two kids I was going to put through college, for years just had one rifle a savage 110 300 win mag. When I got older and more interested in long range hunting/shooting and bucket list hunting, I decided to expand my horizons. Have two Rifles that I have now that I am comfortable with doing both one is a CA 300 win mag, that was a Mesa then added a Modern Precision Rifle chassis(Changed the name from stock to chassis) but got both on sale so was a bit less than their MPR . Without the scope it weighs about 8.8 Lbs, with scope about 11.2 lbs. The other Rifle is a Bergara HMR in 6.5 Creedmoor, 24" barrel about 11.4 lbs with scope. Both gun manufacturers make these in 7mm PRC. There are good options with Savage, Browning and Ruger. I have a new Ruger American go live Camo, in 7 mm PRC, put a Jard trigger on it a a Bear PAW cheek rest. Still breaking it in but I consider this just a hunter, but will try to stretch it out. I am very happy with the accuracy of the rifle with Federal Premium 175 Grn ELDX about 0.5 MOA. Have not optimized a reload yet, and may still fire lap the barrel, but a $550.00 rifle I am happy weight is a little over 9lbs with scope. [/QUOTE]
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