Not mine, but a college roommate picked up a barely-used stainless/synthetic BDL in .338 WM on the cheap. He put a LimbSaver pad on it, but was still nervous about recoil and was debating selling it for what he had in it. Instead, I conspired with his wife to get him a new VX2 for his birthday, and this week I stopped and picked up a box of Federal Premium 210 Partitions on the way home from work. After we zeroed it yesterday, he told me to shoot a group with it. Here's what it did:
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Bone-stock 700, with factory ammunition, chrono'd at just under 2900 FPS. He asked me what I thought, and I said "Go buy every box they have of that lot number and hunt whatever you want with it." He concluded that with some practice, the rifle would be pretty manageable and was worth keeping after all.
I like those new Winchesters, but dang, it's hard to give up on 700s!
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Bone-stock 700, with factory ammunition, chrono'd at just under 2900 FPS. He asked me what I thought, and I said "Go buy every box they have of that lot number and hunt whatever you want with it." He concluded that with some practice, the rifle would be pretty manageable and was worth keeping after all.
I like those new Winchesters, but dang, it's hard to give up on 700s!
