Recent content by Kinks

Be careful...I too have a .300 Win mag. In my search for a load, I wanted to use the 185 Berger and I used H-1000. I got my load down to 80.7grains and had extreme spread of 10 and the SD was 6. My next load was 80.9 grains, the extreme spread was 7 and the SD was 3. BUT!!! My group opened...

I just went through this with my custom re-build of a 700 ADL to Win Mag. A new mag spring and follower did the trick. You mentioned your rifle was +20 years old....springs weaken. The follower was changed just because I wanted new parts with new parts. $40.00 and bought from Brownells.

Woods, I here ya, I here ya....I have that on my list of things to try. Being a cheap sucker, I stood looking at the bullet selection and decided to buy 100 Bergers instead of 50 Accubonds to try and build up a load. More "bang" for the buck if you get what I am saying. (All puns intended)...

Thanks Guys, I will try that out this weekend.

Guys, I need help understanding something. I have a built up .300 Win Mag and I bought a Zeiss Conquest 3.5X10 w/ Rapid-Z 600 reticle to go with the rifle. I have worked out a super accurate load, 80.7 grains H-1000 with the Berger 185 hunting VLD on top. It gives 1/2 MOA groups all day. My...

While talking with my gunsmith one day about custom elk rifles...(which I cannot afford), he told me to think about a "poor man's" custom elk rifle. He told me to find an old Rem 700 ADL, which he would put a custom stainless barrel on, true the action, free float and pillar bed the stock and...