Well!
Win's on the wall..huh! RUMs on the shootin' bench, duh!
Just funnin'
A 7 shootin' like a .17. It otta hurt when they get hit with that sideways bullet.......
Here's my experience with a 7 RUM. Sighted one in for a guy. New 700 BDL with a new box of shells. There were 6 shots left when I got it.
Took 3 shots to get it zero'd. Chrono'd the next 3 and shot for group. They were 140 gr factory loads.
The 3 shots averaged 3540 FPS and went into 0.6" I was impressed. Tried to buy the rifle but that did't work out.
Bought a Super Sniper scope a while back. Put it on an old REM 721 06. The rifle I shot my first white tail buck with back in '59. Dad had restocked it from a walnut tree from the back yard.
Couldn't get it shooting for the last year, since I've owned it. 3" is as small as I could get groups, with 3 different stocks and several different bedding methods and all kinds of powder and bullets.
Finally, this morning I figured that I'd move that SS scope to the 270 and shoot a group to see if the scope was junk. (The reason I bought that scope was on the recommendation of some dude called Bigbrother who along with another fella shot a couple of caribou at some outrageous distance - man ya can't trust anyone any more
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All I can say is "it ain't the scope". Here's a pic of the group. 3@100 pretty much typical for the 270.
The ol' 06 is gonna get a 26" Lilja 3-groove bbl and become a 6.5-06 to shoot the 120 gr bullets.
Spark, ya givin' up on ol' Tommy yet?