Howa Apline MTN rifle - .308

[AussieHunter]

Varget is a top powder for 308, Aussies know it as 2208. But I struggled to get good velocities in my 22 inch barreled Winchester M70 Extreme Weather with it. A mate put me onto ADI 2206H, I think it is Hodgdon 4895 in the US, immediately I picked up 200fps with 150 gainers for 2850fps and absolutely no loss of accuracy.

It will be a ball tearer in the 20 inch barreled Alpine Rifle.

 

[AussieHunter]

Just tried filling the mag......dang it! Holds and feeds one round OK, but hangs up on 2 or 3. Gonna have to shorten them up

Is the box tapered? And that is why the 2nd & 3rd are hanging up, i.e. the spring is not pushing them up or they wont feed after the last round?

 

[Schism]

Just tried filling the mag......dang it! Holds and feeds one round OK, but hangs up on 2 or 3. Gonna have to shorten them up

Have you tried feeding with factory ammo just to be sure it's not what Aussie suggested?

 

[MTorWY]

Thanks for the reply! I've always just shot the same loads that my dad has always loaded, so I was curious.

 

[7Remmy]

I handled one of them last fall. It will likely be the next rifle I drag home. Being well-heeled in 308 components makes the decision easy.

The scope you chose is one of my favorites. I did a side by side comparison a couple evenings ago. It was dusk. Deer-thirty as I like to call it. The VX3i was noticeably clearer and brighter than the other two scopes I had out. A Vortex 4-16X Diamondback side focus,and a VX2 4-12X AO.