re: Medium to Long Range Rifle

If I were building a 1000 yd rifle "fun gun" for punching paper or ringing steel (not hunting), I'd go with a 6 Dasher or 6.5x47Lapua. Accuracy has already been proven with a 1.4" 5-shot group at 1K. If you build it right and do your part you can consistently ring steel at long range. Build a 12 - 14 lb rifle sporting a 28" - 30" barrel.

If the goal is hunting or shooting deer/elk size game, then I'd consider the .284 or one of the wildcat 30's . These would be guns mainly shot from the bench and definitely not walk-around field rifles. You could build bare rifle with a Rem 700 action for $1200 + depending on options and upgrades.

Glass would likely start at $1000 minimum .

I'm guessing you didn't lookup what I asked.

Math is way off. My 260 only has 280 inches of drop at 1000. 130 berger at 2850.

215 berger at 2700 has about the same drop out of a 30-06.

Will a 300 mag do it better....sure

A 338 lapua will do it even better and we can go on and on.

quote:

---

6.5x47Lapua

---

Love that round

I wonder what impact recoil has at that range? Even a 16th of inch movement on the barrel would be huge at 1000 yards.

Very sorry to say Mr. As a former marine sniper in Vietnam but Carlos shot a model 70 Winchester in 30-06

OP I looked into doing about the same thing you are for a while. If it were me I would buy a used Savage 110 for about 300.00 then have it rebarreled in whatever caliber you want. There are several barrel companies that offer drop in barrels for a Savage for 300.00 give or take. Just make sure the donor gun has the same bolt face as what you intend to build as they are sometimes hard to find. Then I would get a good stock and have it bedded.

If you are budget concious then look at brass prices and availability while choosing. I had a 6.5x284 and it's a great round but brass is sometime hard to come by. If I wanted to just ring steel I'd look at a .260 or a Creedmore and shoot whichever 140 grain bullet it likes. A good choice in optics I haven't seen mentioned here is the Weaver Tactical 4x20x50. LINK Go over to Here and do some reading, wealth of knowledge there.

I stand corrected. As best i can tell, it looks as if Mr. Hathcock did indeed use a Winchester M70 in 30-06 (7.62X63) for at least most, and possibly all (excluding the few shots he took w/ a modified 50 cal machine gun) of his work in Viet Nam. Sadly, I couldn't find my copy of his book, but I found 2 other resources. On 2 of his missions in 1967 mentioned in one of the books, he used a Winchester M70 in 30-06 shooting FMJ match grade ammo. One mission was the one used for the movie "Sniper." The Win M70 in 30-06 w/ an 8X Unertl scope was the Marine's sniper weapon during early parts of the Viet Nam war. The Remington M700 in 308 Win (7.62X51) w/ a 3-9X Redfield scope became the basic Marine sniper weapon in 1966, but was not deployed much until 1967. Being who he was, I bet Hathcock was able to use whatever weapon he wished to in 1967.

quote:

---

sent it to Hill Country Rifles for their Accurizing package.

---

I bet that's a gun that can shoot!

It groups just under an inch. The .308 HCR built for me is a sub .5 MOA shooter. Definitely worth the $$$$ I paid for it