The Dirty Thirty

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This is BCG 308 Winchester XP-100, using a Remington Take-Off 308 Winchester barrel chopped to 15.8" Holland's Radial Baffle Brake, Leupold Mark IV 4.5-15, McMillan stock, and a factory trigger.

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Video Below: Factory TAP with 168 A-Max.
Reloads: 1x fired Hornady Match 308 Win brass, CCI primer, H-4895, 155 A-Max at 2720 fps.
Groups were at 100 yards.
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The last 3-shot group was by Dan Ekstrom, with his MagnetoSpeed attached and the group size was close to mine. This XP-100 shoots great!
Next up is doing some drop confirmations at distance.
Impact velocities will allow me to kill out to mid-range distances. Impact velocity at 550 yards should just a tad over 1800 fps.
It will be used for my personal enjoyment and hunting, but will also be a loaner XP-100 for WY-SHOT.
In The Video, I am shooting some older TAP 168 ammunition, so we could set up the resize die properly.
Video:
 
In my neck of the woods a "dirty thirty" is a rifle chambered for the .30-30 Winchester cartridge.
 
Originally Posted By: GCIn my neck of the woods a "dirty thirty" is a rifle chambered for the .30-30 Winchester cartridge.

Chris @ Bayside Custom, came up with this name I think, because of the jerry-rigging/cutting on the action to make it lighter for IHMSA/silhouette/sillywet.
I am not the one who messed with the action. I bought it used that way
 
Cool with me. I was just making an off the cuff comment about us hillbillies and what would come to mind if you said "dirty thirty" in the Ozark's. We tend to be pretty simplistic and a lever action rifle in .30 WCF would spring to the mind of my friends.
 
Originally Posted By: GCCool with me. I was just making an off the cuff comment about us hillbillies and what would come to mind if you said "dirty thirty" in the Ozark's. We tend to be pretty simplistic and a lever action rifle in .30 WCF would spring to the mind of my friends.

I thought it was cool you shared it. I didn't know the phrase has been used for that-Thanks!
 
Sunday afternoon I went out with a couple of guys from church. One needed to do load development and chronographing and the other one wanted me to chronograph a couple of guns with my Labradar. I wanted to do some drop confirmations with the Dirty Thirty/308 Winchester. We had winds from the north west, which was a quartering headwind for us. I was shooting to the north. After the guys got all of their stuff done, Glen spotted for me while I started doing some drop confirmations. The quartering headwind noticeably pushed my bullets down as I extended distances, but I still had fun.
Even at 300 yards it took me more elevation to hit my target, then it should’ve. By 400 yards I had a sense of how much I should add at 500 yards. At 500 yards my first shot at the 10-inch diamond target was close to a center hit.
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The 5-inch square target to the right was hit by a guy shooting a 7mm SAUM rifle with 195 Berger’s.
I did drop confirmations out to 800 yards, but with wind continuing to pick up, I stop there. We shot Glenn’s 41 magnum Smith & Wesson revolver, and had some fun. I decided I wanted to shoot one more shot with my 308 Winchester XP. I picked the upper right small dot on the big rectangular target at 500 yards.
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It always feels good, when you just have a sense of what it should be and you are right, and the shot is very close to where you were aiming at a mid-range distance.
 
Originally Posted By: Mtns2huntReally neat rig. I am supper impressed by that barrel and the accuracy. Be interesting to see how it performs in the field.


I have killed a number of big game animals with the 168 A-Max, but have never used the 155 A-Max.
My guess is that it will work just as good.
 
Originally Posted By: 204 ARMan that's some great shooting and a neat rig!

Thanks-It is always nice to have a good day on distance.
 
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