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Rock Creek will spiral flute a barrel for you too. My .300RUM wears a spiral fluted Rock Creek. Shoots in the .3s all day, in the .1s on occasion when the stars line up.

Only 3 firings from Remington headstamped .300RUM brass??? You must be shooting a REALLY hot load. I still have 112 of my original 120 pieces from 1999. I have between 8-10 firings on them, depending on which individual piece. And I feel I run them fairly hot. I used to shoot 175 SMKs @ 3360fps, 175 LRX @ 3350fps. 210 HVLD & 215 Hybrids at 3100fps now. Many other attempts at tinkering around using various bullets too. Some of them have been getting loose primer pockets over the last year, so getting to be time to start looking for more brass soon.

I got a few on Saturday. Waiting to see if I get any in today or tomorrow at the latest.

I have read the same. All of my barrels are 5R groove. But Lilja doesn't make a 5 groove barrel.

Lilja has no love for the 5R? I would go 4 groove myself. Top shooter in PRS in 2015 shot a 4 groove Hawk Hill.

Dang it. No text. Congrats to the winner.

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Sounds like I might have a chance then! Only 1 Coues tag ever, about 15 years ago. I signed it over to my older daughter but she never had an opportunity for a shot.

A week and a half ago, my 79 year old Father-in-law passed away. We have fished and hunted together since I started dating my wife, 29 years ago, when I was barely 16 years old. We hunted dove, quail, deer and elk together many times over the years, and the ONLY big game he ever shot was a small mule deer buck. He always wanted to get an elk, but the couple times we got drawn for rifle elk, he just could not make it happen, and archery....not happening. He carried a Remington BDL in 7mm RM around every hunt we ever went on. Shooting factory Remington Core-locked 150gr. that shot a little over 1.5" @ 100 yards. I think he only shot that rifle maybe 5 times. Once at the deer, and a couple other shots that I can remember. I think I only shot it 10-15 times or so to sight in in initially. Right around 1 box for the life of the rifle. About 18 years ago, he hung up his hunting cap, put the rifle in the gun cabinet to collect dust, and left me to find new adventures solo. Over the last 17 years, I have really gone a little nuts with hunting. He has seen my rifles go from $400 rifle/scope combos to what some of you have seen. He knew I have shown my daughters, his granddaughters, how to hunt, shoot, fish, and appreciate the outdoors and wildlife. I know he missed it, but could just not get around well enough to go out again. I truly miss him even just being in camp with me. When we were in the hospital for the last week of his life, he bequeathed his rifle to me and my goal now is to get the elk he never got a chance to take. So I have started a build to get it shooting like it should, and to lighten it up to be a good packing rifle for hiking into the deeper mountains and canyons, but still being able to take game out to 800-1000 yards. I already have the heavy LR rigs for both deer (16.5#) and elk (14+#), and a good medium weight rifle for antelope & deer (10.5#). My hopes are to bring this rifle in around 9-9.5# with base/rings/scope. I took it home and spent a while cleaning 20 years of dust out of it. I started with the basic 7mm RM R700 LA BDL. 24" barrel, iron sights w. Weaver rings & 2 pc. bases, and Redfield 3-9x40 scope. Total weight: 8 pounds, 10 ounces. I took the scope/bases off to be used on a Ruger 10/22 that I got from him a few years ago for squirrel hunting with Paige and Taylor, my daughters. The wood stock has definitely seen better days after riding around in his truck for years during hunting season, and being carried around the field, banging against rocks and trees, belt buckles, knife sheath on a belt, etc. So off it came, and is being replaced by an HS Precision composite stock that was taken off my .300RUM. Weight savings: 6 ounces. I ordered up a 27" Bartlein 5R #3 heavy sporter fluted 1 in 8.5" twist blank. Specs from Bartlein for the #3 @ 27" without flutes in 3 pounds 8 ounces. new barrel dimensions are about .010"-.020" larger than the factory magnum sporter for the length of the barrel. Fluting, according to the calculator, should have removed approximately 6-8 ounces. But I am adding 2" to the length, so at approximately 1.5 oz. per inch at the muzzle, I should still drop a few ounces. Weight savings: 3-5 ounces. Adding an APA Micro Bastard brake brings the weight back up to probably a wash. Here is the barrel next to my 28" #4 Shilen on my .25-06 Ackley. Cutting off steel bolt knob and adding an aluminum stubby bolt knob. Weight savings: Maybe an ounce? I will send off the bolt to get fluted when I get it back from Phoenix Custom Rifles. Weight savings: 3 ounces. I ordered a Seekins 20 MOA aluminum Picatinny base and will probably go with Seekins aluminum 30mm rings: Weight savings: Unknown, probably adding an ounce or two. I ordered a Timney Calvin Elite trigger @ 8oz. pull weight. I am pretty set on my scope choice. I have been researching scopes for a lightweight build for a while, weighing pros/cons. Price, weight, mag range, FOV, features, reticle, warranty, etc. In a perfect world (and if I would have just won the Powerball), the choice would have been the March. But since I can't afford a $3500 scope right now, that one is out. Maybe in the future. But for now, I want a scope with a lower bottom mag range, in the 3-4X area. High mag range no lower than 15X, but up to 20X would be great. Of course, for my preference, it needs to be MIL/MIL and FFP. Some sort of a holdover reticle that is true MIL subtension, not a BDC. Illuminated reticle is high up on my preferences, and a second rotation indicator is nice, but not mandatory as long as it has a zero stop. Length is no big deal as long as weight is help down. Vertical adjustment is important for longer shots, but with the 20MOA base, that adds about 6 MIL of adjustment. But to get to 1200 yards, at an approximate high country muley or elk hunt, I only need 9 MILS of dial. I don't want a 2# scope if I can avoid it. But there are 1 or 2 that are high on the list. Here is my list, and you tell me what you would get, and be honest. It is easy to say the S&B 3-27x56 for $6600 when spending someone else's money. So unless you would really drop $7K on a scope, don't suggest it. I have already done case prep on a batch of about 70 Winchester brand once fired cases I had in my stash. Weight sorted to within 3 grains (230.0-233.0), resized to .0015" below SAAMI spec @ shoulder, trimmed, chamfered for VLD/de-burred, flash hole de-burred and uniformed, primer pockets uniformed, and neck/shoulders annealed. I will be shooting the Berger 180 Hybrids. Unprimed dummy round for chambering and freebore. Base of boat tail is just below shoulder to body junction, but has full purchase in neck to bearing surface of bullet. Two separate ladder tests worked up with RL22 & H1000. Also, some sighter rounds with a mild load of H1000 for sight in. All parts and dummy round have been dropped off at Phoenix Custom Rifles. I talked to Keith today, and he will be starting on it tomorrow. I hope to have it back by the end of January or beginning of February according to Keith.

That bitch was a real dog.

Factory mag box. Plenty long to seat the bullets out until they touch the lands and still fit on the mag box.

Photos texted to Alex.

Got mine. Taylor will probably win it.......

http://shop.azdeer.org/t/monthly-raffles

Still here. Less than 65% of new cost, no tax, no shipping if we meet FTF. And a custom paint job! From back when B&C had some QA/QC personnel working for them.

I got your target back today, and see the two "X"ed out shots. No sweat, they won't count against your score. Great shooting by the way.

Factory Remington BDL bottom metal. Cerakoted and skim bedded by Phoenix Custom Rifles.

This actually brought a tear to my eye. Thanks, I am sure you are correct. I hope to use it this year on my early rifle bull hunt and take a good bull. My daughter Taylor took the first elk ever with the rifle last year, a fat juicy cow. I am sure he was grinning ear to ear up there watching her take that cow.

Definitely not broken. Just tinkering.....again.

This. I just got a spotter last fall before a late season elk hunt, but have already used it a ton. 10s on a chest harness, 15s for glassing out to 2 miles, spotter for close inspections.

I am going to be starting some more load work. Going to try the Hornady 175 ELD-X. Even though I know the Berger 180 Hybrid works very well. Here was my 5 shot group at 802. 180 Berger Hybrid @ 2996fps

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What about a .260? Right in between, better ballistics than either the .243 or 7-08. Most .243s are twisted for 90-100gr. max. Manageable recoil without a brake, better for deer than the .243, and enough for elk with good 140gr bullets. Maybe equal to the 7-08 150gr. Bullets. Flatter trajectory and better speed too. I can vouch that a .260 is plenty to take big mulies out to 650 yards with authority.

Nothing new but the name. Nice not being a belted mag, even though I have never had issues with a belted mag. Very similar ballistics to other rounds. Just a new fad to get the Nosler name out. 28 Nosler, 7 RUM, 7 Dakota, 7.21 Fire bird, 7 Allen Mag, 7 STW, etc. 30 Nosler, .300RUM, .300 NM, .300 Dakota, 7.82 Warbied etc. 33 Nosler, .338 RUM,. 338 Edge, .338 Weatherby, .338-378 Weatherby, 8.59 Titan, etc.