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Yea, I know, a little over kill for Tennessee whitetails but a fun rifle none the less.
Glass bedded my left handed Ruger Guide rifle and got her ready for the range. Bullet is the 250 grain Barnes TTSX. Mounted a Athlon 2x12 scope on the rifle. Loaded up some ammo and hit the range a couple of days ago.
78 grains Big Game - average 2645 with extreme spread of 20
80 grains Big Game - average 2702 with extreme spread of 9.
Sighted in the rifle 2 inches high at 100 yards with the 80 grain load. I kid you not, 3 shots touching, around 3/8ths of an inch. Only thing I did to the rifle was glass bed it with Pro Bed. Barrel is free floated from about 1 inch in front of the recoil lug. Rifle has less recoil than the 9.3x62 I just built up. This is the Guide model with the 20 inch barrel and brake. Weight with 2x12 scope is 9.5 pounds. No signs of high pressure with the 80 grain load. Next trip to the range (after a upcoming hunt) will try 82 grains. Case is pretty full using Big Game so might try Varget as it is a shade faster and can get more in the case. 2,800 fps should be possible if I want to work at it. Ended up sighting it in at two inches high at 100. This is about dead on at 200 and roughly 3 inches low at 300 which is about my limit to shoot.
Her first hunt will be at Afognak Island next month when I accompany my son on his quest for an elk. I may hike up to an alpine meadow and look for a blacktail while him and his friend go high searching for elk. Afognak is literally crawling with problematic brown bears that like to steal deer and elk meat so it is better to be over gunned than under gunned. Although I pray I never run into one in the first place.
Glass bedded my left handed Ruger Guide rifle and got her ready for the range. Bullet is the 250 grain Barnes TTSX. Mounted a Athlon 2x12 scope on the rifle. Loaded up some ammo and hit the range a couple of days ago.
78 grains Big Game - average 2645 with extreme spread of 20
80 grains Big Game - average 2702 with extreme spread of 9.
Sighted in the rifle 2 inches high at 100 yards with the 80 grain load. I kid you not, 3 shots touching, around 3/8ths of an inch. Only thing I did to the rifle was glass bed it with Pro Bed. Barrel is free floated from about 1 inch in front of the recoil lug. Rifle has less recoil than the 9.3x62 I just built up. This is the Guide model with the 20 inch barrel and brake. Weight with 2x12 scope is 9.5 pounds. No signs of high pressure with the 80 grain load. Next trip to the range (after a upcoming hunt) will try 82 grains. Case is pretty full using Big Game so might try Varget as it is a shade faster and can get more in the case. 2,800 fps should be possible if I want to work at it. Ended up sighting it in at two inches high at 100. This is about dead on at 200 and roughly 3 inches low at 300 which is about my limit to shoot.
Her first hunt will be at Afognak Island next month when I accompany my son on his quest for an elk. I may hike up to an alpine meadow and look for a blacktail while him and his friend go high searching for elk. Afognak is literally crawling with problematic brown bears that like to steal deer and elk meat so it is better to be over gunned than under gunned. Although I pray I never run into one in the first place.
