Originally Posted By: CoyotejunkiOriginally Posted By: K22My is being built as we speak. Kimber Montana action, trigger, and stock. Lilja #1 in 17 Rem. cut to 22" with a 1:9 twist, stainless matte finish. Talley lightweight mounts and a Leupold VX3 2.5-8X36. Chan Nagels 25gr. and 30gr. will be the bullets of choice.
Sounds like a great setup. I've always like the Kimber Montana's. I just hear how the accuracy can be hit or miss. But then there are gunsmiths and new barrels to handle that issue.
New barrels and gunsmiths can fix a lot of issues.
I had heard about the hit and miss accuracy problems also, but couldn't resist that perfect lightweight setup, so I bought 2 of them. Besides, my experience has been that some folks have a tough time shooting from a bench and even more so with an rifle that weighs under 7lbs. ready to hunt. Both of mine were in 204 and were bought almost a year apart from each other. Both of them shot the same load way, way under an inch at 100yds. For the newest and the one being rebarreled it was the first 6 rounds after the 2 rounds it took to zero the scope.
I will admit that it has been many years since I've pulled a rifle out of the box, mounted a scope and zeroed it and commenced to shooting groups out of it. My procedure for any new factory rifle is to take it out of the stock, check the bedding, lighten the trigger, retorque the action screws, clean the bore with Wipe Out, colloidal graphite and then go shoot it.
So I don't know if the accuracy was bad in them or not.
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With good shot placement the 40gr Bergers have a quarter size exit. Its pretty easy on the fox compared to most other calibers I've shot.
BTW, that Kimber will be a sweet rifle, I have one in 300 WSM getting re-barreled right now.
That's not much damage at all. I've shot one Bobcat with mine and no exit, but I figured that might have been a fluke. One Bobcat is not enough to tell what a bullet will consistently do. Now with Coyotes, I've not had any exits with the 204..........so far.
but I'm still sticking with my 17 Rems. for most of my pelt hunting.
What caliber are you rebarreling your 300 WSM to and what barrel?