The 168 grain Sierra Match King is an excellent bullet in the 308 Winchester, and is probably my first choice for the shooting situation we’re discussing in this article. Depending on the atmospheric conditions, that velocity is near 1120 fps. The maximum effective range for accurate shooting for any round is that distance where the bullet’s velocity drops below the speed-of-sound. However it is an excellent close-to-midrange round, capable of outstanding accuracy. 308 just lacks the horsepower for truly long-range shooting. So a compromise of reasonable muzzle velocities and ballistic coefficient is necessary. This extra weight keeps the muzzle velocity down. With the lower velocities of the 308 Winchester cartridge though, the heavier bullets, with the high ballistic coefficient, tend to be a little too heavy, in my opinion. For longer range shooting, say out to 600 yards, a high ballistic coefficient is desirable to help offset the shooter’s margin of error in estimating wind drift and, if not using a laser range finder, range estimation. 308 Winchester for a tactical situation, I would like to use a bullet in the 150-180 grain weight range. Secondly, we’ll look at both bullet selection and barrel contour/length in making a recommendation for a barrel twist rate and profile. And it is hefty enough to hold fairly steady. This rifle weight allows a reasonably heavy barrel for good accuracy, but is not cumbersome when the shooter needs to make a quick entry or exit or a long stalk. For most tactical applications, a rifle in the 10-12 pound range is about right. The first question is overall rifle weight. 308 caliber barrel to be installed on a Remington 700 action, there are a couple of questions that need to be addressed. The editor considers Dan Lilja one of the most knowledgeable of today’s authorities on long range rifle shooting. The goodfellow, Heaven bless him, must have understood what I was trying to say… because his response was along just the very lines that I was looking for.

Since we live in a “Be practical” type of world, we fired off a “Help!” missive to Dan Lilja, the honcho at Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels (P.O.Box 372, Plains, MT, phone (406) 826-3084), together with a cover letter that mused… “I’m looking for a good, technically-oriented response… but not a rewrite of Gone With The Wind “. We felt that the inquiry was a bit too broad-based in topic matter and while a scholarly discourse in depth might have been nice… to do the job properly would have taken perhaps a dozen pages… and been a rather dry reading dozen pages at that. The editor comment is from Dave Brennan.) Editor: Recently a TS subscriber wrote to us, looking for some guidance on the barrel contour selection for a. (This article was originally published in Tactical Shooter magazine.

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