Couple of precision hunting sticks

[punkur67]

My dad and I have cow elk tags in Arizona for next month so I thrashed to get my 6.5 saum ready. I also picked up a lighter chassis for my 300wm as a back up. Broke in the 6.5 saum barrel last week and did some load development today. Got good SDs and the velocities I want from the 6.5 saum but don't think I will have time to tune it at distance before our hunt. I got single digit SDs and decent groups. Shot 2850-2950 with the test loads with the berger 156 elite hunter bullets. Plan is to run the 300wm since I'm very comfortable and confident with it and has been out to a mile plenty of times.

Here's my weapon of choice for our upcoming hunt. I shaved 11#s off the gun changing from my weighted long range chassis to the KRG bravo.


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[180ls1]

Looks good. 30 cal magnums are tough to beat on elk.

 

[punkur67]

Here's my load data from yesterday. I had a hard time finding a starting point because of the wild variance of load data I found online. I found peoples loads from 56 grains of H1000 all the way up to 62. I started in the middle and stopped when I had heavy bolt lift. I got nowhere near 62 grains

 

[punkur67]

Taught my dad a little about shooting from a tripod too
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[180ls1]

Here's my load data from yesterday. I had a hard time finding a starting point because of the wild variance of load data I found online. I found peoples loads from 56 grains of H1000 all the way up to 62. I started in the middle and stopped when I had heavy bolt lift. I got nowhere near 62 grains
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Yeah, people like to post outliers and inflate numbers. That 156 going 2950ish will be a hammer.

 

[punkur67]

Cool picture I took tonight on our first outing

 

[baboltin]

Sweet rifle and sweet pic! I love pictures of rifles !

 

[ilovesprig]

Looks deadly......................

 

[HunterMcBuckKiller]

Here's my load data from yesterday. I had a hard time finding a starting point because of the wild variance of load data I found online. I found peoples loads from 56 grains of H1000 all the way up to 62. I started in the middle and stopped when I had heavy bolt lift. I got nowhere near 62 grains
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This is an awesome chart and way beyond what i know about reloading but i am always willing ot learn more. Is this something you made or something readily found on the internets?

 

[punkur67]

This is an awesome chart and way beyond what i know about reloading but i am always willing ot learn more. Is this something you made or something readily found on the internets?

It's the 6.5 guys chart you can find online