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Remington SPS Tactical...
Here's a switch for you'se guys and gals...
Bet you forgot that I use to shoot some precision guns...other than the Winchesters and Flintlocks.
Rem 700 variant, the SPS Tactical. This is one of the few with a adjustable trigger. Currently set up with a Hunting scope ~ for game. I'm pretty bad about getting my scopes mounted properly. This one was about a 2 hr process to see how low I could go and still clear the bolt. My feelin' is if the bolt doesn't flip the cap...you're way to high....
I hunted for three years to find this one in .223...
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Nice looking rifle, do you know what the rate of twist is?
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06-19-2010, 06:12 PM
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It has the 1 in 9 rate of twist. That's why I had to have it....
My gun also is matched chambered...Don't know why it came that way...but I'm not arguing.
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In .308, that would make an OUTSTANDING Scout Rifle!
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I have one of those that I've been using for prairie dogs for the last year or so. Accuracy was dicey at first, but I shimmed it at the forend tip to add a few pounds of pressure at that point and it has worked fine ever since. Will hold 3/4" easily with ammo it likes, and that's plenty good enough to take a lot of p-dogs.
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06-19-2010, 11:59 PM
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I have a 700 Police in .308 26" 1 in 12. Very accurate with Black Hills 168gr Matchking
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I have a 700 Police LTR in .308, which is the 20" fluted heavy barrel variant, Leupold Tactical 4.5x14x50mm scope, illuminated recticle. Amazingly accurate, with just about everything I feed it!! I have looking at the .223 SPS or LTR model for sometime now. Joe
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I have one of those that I've been using for prairie dogs for the last year or so. Accuracy was dicey at first, but I shimmed it at the forend tip to add a few pounds of pressure at that point and it has worked fine ever since. Will hold 3/4" easily with ammo it likes, and that's plenty good enough to take a lot of p-dogs.
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Wyo, what bullet weights are you using? Were the accuracy problems with varmint type bullets?
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I have a 700 Police in .308 26" 1 in 12. Very accurate with Black Hills 168gr Matchking
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Try a Savage 10FP with a 1 in 10. I like heavy bullets. It shoots the 175gr. Sierra like a champ at 600 yards. It'll shoot the 190s too.
Most people I know no longer use 168s (except for 200 yard offhand) because the BC is so inferior to the newer bullets.
I load an equivalent to the G.I. M118 Long Range round using 175gr. Sierras and Vihta Vuori N150.
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Here's my "flea flicker," so-named because it can almost literally flick a flea off a dog's butt at 100 yards.
Remington 700 in .308, 26" bull barrel, topped with a 6.5-20x50mm Burris Fullfield II scope with a range-calibrated stepped plex reticle, adjustable parallax from 50 to 500 yards. Quick-detachable rings with absolute return to zero. Pillar bedded Kevlar stock, barrel free-floated. Sighted in with 168-grain Sierra Match Kings, handloaded with Win. 748 powder and Win. primers to 2650 fps mv on a Dillon 1050. Rifle was constructed in December, 1994. A real "AT&T" special.
Gotta love a really precision rifle. As Townsend Whelen said, "Only accurate rifles are interesting."
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Wyo, what bullet weights are you using? Were the accuracy problems with varmint type bullets?
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I was using mostly 55 gr. V-Max's and 55 gr. Ballistic Tips, but also 69 gr. Sierras and 75 gr. Hornady HP's just to see if it was a problem with particular weights. It didn't shoot anything well. Most groups with all bullets were in the 4-5" range. It was a bedding problem and once I got some upward pressure on the barrel at the forend tip it settled right in. I have several Remingtons and never had a problem like that before. I used it today and was hitting fine out to about 250 yds. Wind was gusting to about 30 mph,though, and that was making things really tough beyond that.
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As far as the .223 goes, I will stick with the AR platform. I have a Bushmaster lower with a Jard trigger and a Rock River upper with a 24" Wilson Barrel with a 1:8 twist. Using 69 gr Black Hills I get 1/2" to 3/4" groups at 100 yds and 2" groups at 250 yds. I think that the rifle is capable of better but that is as good as I can do
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