My suggestion is to get your loads chronographed, whatever you choose to try. If you really want to shoot out to 500 yards you need two things; the exact distance and your exact trajectory.Just got a Tikka Super Varmit in 300 Win Mag. Any suggestions on zeroing and balistics? Wanting to shoot out to 400-500 yards.
Good advice.My suggestion is to get your loads chronographed, whatever you choose to try. If you really want to shoot out to 500 yards you need two things; the exact distance and your exact trajectory.
Get a rangefinder, and then once you have your calculated trajectory from your chronograph readings and ballistic charts actually tested (at say 100 yard intervals out to your "maximum" distance) you should be good to go. Any less preparation will be just wishful thinking, and will result in misses, or worse, wounding.
I would never choose a .300 for varminting, but it is a very fine big game round.
Nosler Custom Comp 168, 70 gr IMR 4831Look Tang, I made it to the 70 gr club. This out of my TC Pro Hunter. Works great for me, and accurate too. Not my every day, or high volume gun, but fun none the less.
Mine liked 80.5gr of Retumbo, with a CCI250 and a 200gr Gameking.Try -:
-- Brass -: Winchester prepped, or Lapua
-- Primer -: Win LR Mag
-- Bullet -: 210gr SMK
-- Powder -: 71gr H4831
If you can handle the recoil, I think you will be astonished at how well this shoots.
Good Shooting,
Gary
That makes no sense to me, although I know you "generalized" the numbers a bit. First of all, I can drive 165 grain bullets faster from my .300 WM. Secondly, if you are 3" high at 300 yards, you will be a foot and a half high at 100 yards. That strikes me as an absurd way to sight a hunting rifle.I've got mine set to 3" high at 300 yards. With 165 gr. handloads at 3200 fps. that stretches my point of aim almost to 400 yards. That's my open ground caribou load.
I found out about some guys who were experimenting with ~50-60 gr. .224 bullets in sabots out of a 300 win mag. They were exceeding 5000 fps. with some of the loads, but accuracy wasn't the greatest. I'm thinking about getting some to play around with. It's a good way to experiment with extreme velocity loads without having to worry about barrel damage.
That makes no sense to me, although I know you "generalized" the numbers a bit. First of all, I can drive 165 grain bullets faster from my .300 WM. Secondly, if you are 3" high at 300 yards, you will be a foot and a half high at 100 yards. That strikes me as an absurd way to sight a hunting rifle.
As for sabots and high velocity, I think the experimenting has all been done, and essentially failed. It doesn't matter how fast you miss things.