There are lots of people, many of them my friends, who are DEEPLY invested in .308. WebNOTE: This item is also compatible with the following models Colt LE901-16S, CORE Rifle Systems CORE30, JP Enterprises LRP-07, KAC SR25, LaRue OBR, Les Baer .308, LMT .308 MWS, LWRCI REPR, Mega Arms MATEN, Noveske Gen III N6, POF P-308, Ruger SR-762, Ruger Precision Rifle, S&W M&P10, SIG716, others. I think most of these folks have not shot a variety of full-powered rifles extensively. Ruger 308 Winchester Bolt Action Rifles - Sportsman's Outdoor It reminds me of the feminization of the pickup truck; carpets and power windows, air conditioning and most wont see anything dirty or scratchy in the bed. Getting good hits became routine.and we ran out of 168s. Davidson's Exclusive Ruger American Hunter Review I agree with TT and Dyspeptic Gunsmith! Gun Review: Ruger Precision Rifle in .308 WIN. I get frustrated with the every rifle must be short and light and look as much like an AR as possible crowd. It took me some time to get the adjustable stock set just the way I wanted it this is a new type of stock to me, and it took some time to get it adjusted perfectly Id fire several shots, and check where the rounds were going, and make adjustments, and shoot again. But I still did very well, all things considered. There is also a muzzle brake supplied, on the factory threaded barrel. But, just like the 6.5, this can easily be addressed thanks to the compatibility with AR-15 parts. We shot some anyway, just to see how far off they would be. If you wish to lap out rough spots in a barrel after it has been cut and chambered, theres really only one way to do it that thats fire-lapping. Many of Ms. Weiss shots have been made off-hand with her Anschuetz .22LR rifle. Dyspeptic Gunsmith, Like I told the owner of 2 of these guns who bought them for rentals at his range, he said they wouldnt shoot MOA, I said call Ruger, raise hell and send them back. I can hit the target (not the bullseye) about half the time. To keep things proportional, Ruger elected to go with a shorter rail from Samson. Ive loaded some of the new Hornady ELD Match bullets (208 gr). The problem with this is.it doesnt shoot good enough to be a long range precision rifle. Good rant. Ill just turn up the wick a bit and Ill have this Ruger singing a sub moa song every time it thumps dinner. If youre in the business of learning how to call the wind, .308 is going to make you do your homework, and Id argue that anyone who can shoot a .308 at any meaningful distance is going to be better at shooting a higher performance chambering like 6.5 Creedmoor if ever called to do so. The nice folks at Black Hills Ammunition have kept me in ammo for my articles for more than 27 years even during several ammo droughts, they still managed to get ammo into my hands for articles. For a serious shooter, barrels tend to be more accurate after a thousand rounds. When I first got to basic, that rifle did to me what it did to everybody else, at first, and that would be giving every one first shooting it a massive goose-egg on their cheek, we all lived to shoot another day. If thats so, the thickness of the barrel walls are about 0.3055 for the Creedmore and about 0.2835 for the .308 at the muzzles. The 6.555 is the smarter choice in a sufficient environment, yet the popular 6.5 Creedmoor is well supported making, it easy for folks to get into the long range game. This problem is of course only amplified when you screw a silencer to the end of the barrel. Accuracy was so bad after I bought it I sent it back to Ruger. Second, the Creedmore is just as powerful as the harder recoiling .308 downrange due to its higher BC. At 1000 yds. Im not humping a 13 pound rifle to chase deer and pigs, so this new Ruger is a welcome sight. There is a reason why custom barrels cost more than factory ones, and there is a reason why serious competitors shoot them exclusively. Ruger Precision Rifle LRP-07, KAC SR25, LaRue OBR, Les Baer I have liked the RPR since it came out, but it does have some short-comings. all day long. Even with slightly gusty conditions, a shooter has to do a bit more work to keep a .308 inside the same circle as a comparably built 6.5 Creedmoor. This new Ruger precision rifle has my name all over it. Why dont you ask this young lady how much her Anschuetz weighs? I gave the 6.5 a four-star rating that was much more like a 4.8. An RPR in 6.5 Creedmoor (review here) and one in .308 WIN . Still working at longer distances of 350, 550 and 750 yards. Best .308 Ammo & 7.62x51 [Target Shooting, Plinking, & Hunting] He has been writing for The Truth About Guns for four years and specializes in hunting, the outdoors, gun, and gear reviews. Theres not a single thing except for the AR-style aerospace-grade 7075-T6 aluminum lower receiver and CNC-machined 4140 chrome-moly steel upper receiver and one-piece bolt that a person with a minimum of tools couldnt swap out. Overall Length: 39.25"-42.75". Targets were set-up at 100 yards, and I did a lot of walking back and forth to check my targets no spotting scope. The trigger was very good and reminded me of the accutrigger on a Savage 10P I regret selling. Not sure what the tells you but getting sighted in was 2 shots and I was in business. The Creedmoor uses a smaller cartridge up to a maximum pressure of 62,000 psi, where as the Swede uses a larger case and slower powers at a much lower maximum pressure 46,000 cup (about 50,000 psi). I havent seen one yet that wont shoot MOA easily out of the box. with my hand load M118 clone and a 175 gr Sierra match king my RPR in 308 shoots .5 moa @100 my next mission is to take the berger 200.20x and see if it can shrink the group size or do I need to rebarrel to compete F t/r anybody know where I can find vhitavhori n150. Match Kings. Here, Im almost to a point of demanding you turn in your Man Card. Aimed at the After I started reloading and found the magic round, it averaged for the next 2000 rounds (before I burned it out) a .34 MOA all targets good bad and ugly between 100 to 800 yards. Im confident in saying that this is a problem across the whole line. A little over 2-2.5 off-hand. Match ammo might be competitively priced in the Creedmore but if someone new is getting into long range shooting theyd be better served with .308. However, if I had my .308s piled up, and had the money to play, I would choose the 6.5 Grendel in a low cost rife from Palmetto State Armory, and that could my DMR platform after a low cost version in 5.56, or better yet, a 7.62 version that would cost much more in the AR-10. But an F-class Savage doesnt look as tacticool, so it cant be as good. Dont know for sure, but the Amax make large holes for exit wounds. A sniper rifle is a rifle used by a sniper it is not a specific type or caliber. The 175 grain Match Hollow Point load was hot on the heels of the lighter bullet, and gave me groups just above of an inch consistently. But its not like this one, and heres why. A-MAX through the RPR for groups and managed to put down a 1.754 MOA and 1.737 MOA group respectively. Youll see the old school vindicated. (1 review) Its awesome they use standard mags but they are too short to handloads the bullets to an O.A.L. Shooting a thousand rounds would do the same thing. Ive read a lot of 6.5 and .308 reviews, any comments on the .243 version of this rifle? Im not sure if you got a dud, had equipment (scope, mount) failure, it was operator error or maybe the barrel was badly fouled. First of all, this is a bolt-action rifle that is is not designed to be a hunting rifle. I know just what to do with it. Once in place, you set-up your snipers hide and very patiently wait for your target. Ruger Rifles for Sale The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times. But in that same string of testing, I shot a 1.698 MOA group. Curious how that works out. But the fact is that nobody in the top 10 of the Precision Rifle Series used a hinged floorplate to feed their rifle, and none of them ran stock bolt knobs, or factory stocks. I wish I could shoot mine. It weighs a mere 6.2 pounds and has an overall length of 38 inches. I dont know why this one isnt a lights-out shooter like the 6.5. Apparently, that was back when men still made noises of large hardened steel bearings bouncing off each other whilst they walked to the firing line. Still, the set-up was fairly good although I really needed a bipod on the RPR and I needed to go prone, to get the very best accuracy out of this rifle. It would be a very efficient rifle on the field. That is impressive. It eked out a couple sub-MOA groups, so it passes the 1 MOA for $1,000 rule of thumb. Id love to see a review on this rifle that can substantiate the 1/2 MOA (out of the box) comments I have seen on so many other sites.
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