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I am rapidly becoming a fan of the 6,5-284 after Saturday shooting at 1200 with it and with under 40MOA of elevation as well. I have never shot beyond 1200 with a .308 but would very much like to push it out further, what weight bullet are you using in the .308?

I shoot TR at 1000yds occasionally. It was a lot more fun doing it with an RPA Quadlock than a Parker-Hale 1200TX!

Being fairly new to shooting at distance and even newer to reloading, I was always daunted by the distance and put off having a go for a whole season. Towards the end of last year, after much pushing from the better half, I decided it was time to 'bust the 1k cherry'-boy am I glad I did! Luckily I didnt disgrace myself and managed a fair few V's (the targets were of a fairly generous size thou)
If anyone has any hang-ups about giving it a go, dont-just go for it!

Reading this thread it seems I'm in a minority! :shakeshout:

A 1000 or greater still doesn't grab my interest.

ovenpaa wrote:I am rapidly becoming a fan of the 6,5-284 after Saturday shooting at 1200 with it and with under 40MOA of elevation as well. I have never shot beyond 1200 with a .308 but would very much like to push it out further, what weight bullet are you using in the .308?

I must admit that i like the 6.5-284 but Lee gets barely 1800 rounds out of a barrel! He is prone to stoking up his rounds so i'm sure he could get a longer barrel life if he backed his loads off a bit, but still - 1800 rounds and those Shillen barrels are bloody expensive..........

PM me your email address and i'll scan and mail you a recent review of the Savage long range hunter rifle in 6.5-284. The load work-up is quite interesting.

Many shooting the 308 swear by the 175gr bullet but my SSG69 just loves Hornady 168gr A-Max bullets, closely followed by 168gr Sierra Matchkings. It hates VLDs.

my K31 seems to be happy with the PPU 174grn load at 1000, I would love to try some GP11 in it, but the market seems dry of it at the moment, my hand loads seem to be OK (ish) hitting about 1/2 the target frame lower, but I am not pushing them hard at this stage ,just keeping the shop bought stuff for the longer range stuff

Tower.75 wrote:Dougan?

Charming :55:

And what's so wrong with being confused for me?

Yes, my smle will shoot to 1000, but (and the more I think about this the gayer it sounds ) I want to preserve the bore, so only shoot soft loads at 200/300...

I do love shooting 900/1000 TR - basically you're lining up a 3 foot metal blow-pipe by eye, and spitting a little piece of metal accurately at a target (even when the bull is 2' wide)...and it just gets more fascinating the further the distance

Unfortunately, I only get to shoot long range TR once a year at the moment, so obviously want to do more of that; but I'd also like to get something specifically for 1000/1200 at some point in the future....

I think this calls for some kind of Full-Bore UK 1000 yard shoot, no?

And what's so wrong with being confused for me?

Nothing at all, your fur is fabulous. Anyone would be lucky to have a pelt like that

Tower.75 wrote:

And what's so wrong with being confused for me?

Nothing at all, your fur is fabulous. Anyone would be lucky to have a pelt like that

Eyes off my pelt pal! :P

If I can make it I'd be up for a 1000 FB day - also, there was a little bit of talk last year about a 'north v south' shoot - for 1000 yrds, it'd have to be Bisley v Diggle