Your long range dream rifle.

A Sharps for BPCR.
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I'll have one of those some day as well! Of cousre it will be a reproduction as I'm sure I'll never want to pay the price for an original. I don't know if I'll be able to ring the gongs at 1000 yards with it but I'll sure try.
 
Anzio 20mm!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NxHj1R04g&feature=player_embedded
 
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Your long range dream rifle.
I have wanted a Barrett MRAD in .338 Lapua Mag since the day they came out with a Leupold Mk 4 scope to get out to 1000 yards with accuracy. I consider that my long range dream rifle. What would be yours? (If you own one already, what is it?)

Note: Im talking 1000+ Yards here
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Purpose:
I want to use Quickload and Quicktarget and my hunting and practicing experiences to compare the 338 and 7mmRM cartridges.
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Assumptions:
8 moa elevation adjustment for a big game hunting shot is the limit.
1800 fps minimum for good bullet expansion.
10 pounds rifle weight is the threshold of too heavy.
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Independent variables:
70,000 psi peak pressure
scope 2" above barrel bore
barrel 26" long
Pick best Hodgdon extreme powder
200 yard zero
338s use 250 gr Nosler Partition Gold boat tail bullets
7mm use 150 gr Nosler Ballistic tip boat tail bullets
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Dependent variables
338 Lapua Mag 90.3 gr H4381sc 2945 fps, 515 yards down 8moa, 647 yards 1800 fps
338 Rem Ultra 89.2 gr H4381sc, 2901 fps, 507 yards down 8 moa, 625 yards 1800 fps
338 Winche Mag 69.4 gr H4350, 2773 fps, 492 yards down 8moa, 560 yards 1800 fps
7mmRem Mag 70.3 gr H4381sc, 3250 fps, 582 yards down 8moa, 822 yards 1800 fps
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Discussion and analysis:
I can get good accuracy with the 7mmRemMag at 10 pounds rifle, scope, bipod, and ammo when shooting 150 gr.
The 338s should do as well at 16.7 pounds when shooting 250 gr.
Maybe the 338s do not need to be that heavy, because they do not need to be as accurate, because they can not shoot as far.
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Conclusion:
I will not hunt long range with my 338s.
I will instead hunt long range with my 7mmRM rifles.
 
Being a more traditional nitwit, I would pick a Gibbs 1903-A4 which I WILL own sometime this year.
Other than that my 700 with a jewel trigger only with a tactical stock which I am working on.Long range shooting depends on the person behind the trigger. For me anything beyond 500 is TOO long range shooting. We all must know our limitations.:o
http://www.gibbsrifle.com/1903-a4_sniper_rifle_.html
 
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I started playing around with a Rem 721 in 30-06 about forty years ago. Had fun with load development and at that time though 500 yds was long range. About twenty years ago I got into the M1A platform, then the 6.5G and the 7.62 AR. A Chey Tac or some .338LM may come along some day.

Some days I'm happy with a .22lr at 200yds.
 
First it has to be a rifle I built, not something some one else built and charged me 3K +.

Preferable on a Model 70 actions.

338s & 50 cals will do it, with cost. Plus you need a brake to be able to shoot them. No thanks I don't want the muzzle blast taking off my ear protections every time I touch off the round.

I use to really like my 300 WM (Model 70) for 1000 yards shooting in the Any Rifle/Any Sights & Any Rifle Iron sights) but in my old age even that is over kill. Even back when I was shooting for the guard my best 1000 yards scores were fired with my M1A.

I built a Model 70 Vietnam era sniper rifle in '06, still thats not needed. I was a range offer for the SH Challenge a couple weeks a go. Most of the top shooters were shooting a 260 Rem (the winner used a 6.5X7 I think).

The 6.5/264s seem to be the cat's meow. Easy to shoot, cheap, easier on the barrels then the 6mm/243s. And you can use them with light rifles if you have to pack the sucker very far.

With the 260 you can get factory shells if you don't reload.

I use to be in the "big is better" club.......not any more... those 6.5s prove you dont need "big".

I really like the 270 Win also. As more match bullets come on the scene you'll see more of them. Somebody (forgot who) is making some 165 & 175 .277 bullets with some super high BC, somewhere in the neighbor hood of .7-.8. Don't know what twist they are using but it warrents looking into.
 
I finally broke down and bought mine about a year ago. I love it, and have never regretted buying it.. Bushmaster BA50 with a Bushnell Tactical Elite 4.5-30x50.

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My dream rifle is a Anzio 20mm. Its for times when the 50BMG is just to small to do the job :D


IT would be a blast to shoot coyotes and tree rats with!

for some thing more realistic I would go with a 308 and some good glass on it.
 
Original browning-bar (browning automatic rifle) for my dream rifle. For accuracy, accuracy international in a cal. Ive not decided.
 
Unlimited funds?

If it was a Bolt gun, Barret M98b in .338 Lapua magnum or an Accuracy International AWM also in .338 Lapua magnum

Semi automatic I'd like an M1A
 
Something I could realistically buy if I made a concerted effort to save up:
A Steyr Mannlicher Elite 08 or SSG 69.

For some reason I have a real soft spot for Steyr.

If I stretch to the "couldn't really justify saving up that much", then something Desert Tactical Arms. I fell for that one ever since one of the members linked in a video where the bullet turbulence was visible....:cool:

Finally, in the realm of the totally absurd, then South Africa's utterly bonkers Denel NTW-20 as seen in District 9.... purely to know what it feels like to shoot it!!
 
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