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**Bwana** · 10-29-2005, 04:53 PM

I'm going out tomorrow to take Jr after his first deer. I didn't want him shooting my 300 Ultramag so I invested in a Sako 7MM-08 and hung a Leupold 3x10x50 on it. It is my gun, but he can use it.

Two days after I bought it, I was talking to a guy and he said, "you should have called me first, I had a deal for you." He had a .270 with a scope he was willing to let go for $200 that had had less than a box of shells through it. Needless to say, I went over to his house yesterday and handed him two one hundred dollar bills. He claimed it "shot like shit and couldn't hit anything."

When I took everything out in the boonies yesterday to site in, I didn't know what to expect. I can tell you this, the Ruger .270 had the factory 8 pound pull on the trigger which sucks like a shop vac. I installed a Timney trigger on my 300 Ultramag a few years ago and I have it set and one and a half pounds. Try going from a 1 1/2 trigger to an eight pound. I shot my laser finder out 100 yards, set up some targets and grabbed the .270 with the POS Simmons 3x9 scope. (Why the hell would ANYONE hang a Simmons on a 270?) I would rather have a POS gun and a nice scope than the other way around. At least you are going to hit something. Anyhow, I line it up, BOOM! check spotting scope.........nothing....WTF? BOOM..........nothing on the paper yet again.

I ended up having to lay the thing across my jeep, taking aim and lifting my head to see where it was going. Two feet high and a foot to the right. No wonder this poor bastard couldn't hit a deer with it.

(Who sited this in, Stevie fuggen Wonder?) It took me damn near two boxes of shells to get it two inches high, dead center at a hundred yards. (Dead nuts at 300 yards) Next the 7MM-08, hey, at least it was hitting paper. 12 shots and it was 2 inches high at 100 yards. Next the 300, now by this time my shoulder felt like hamburger. BOOM! wince, shit that hurt! Two inches high at 100. Boom! same thing, Boom! same thing. You could cover the three shots with a dime. Note to self, bore site new guns owned by Helen Keller before heading to the hills next time.

So that's my story, anyone killing anything?

10-29-2005, 04:53 PM	#313
Bwana It's Five O'Clock Somewhere Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Billings, Montana Casino cash: $2139283647	I'm going out tomorrow to take Jr after his first deer. I didn't want him shooting my 300 Ultramag so I invested in a Sako 7MM-08 and hung a Leupold 3x10x50 on it. It is my gun, but he can use it. Two days after I bought it, I was talking to a guy and he said, "you should have called me first, I had a deal for you." He had a .270 with a scope he was willing to let go for $200 that had had less than a box of shells through it. Needless to say, I went over to his house yesterday and handed him two one hundred dollar bills. He claimed it "shot like shit and couldn't hit anything." When I took everything out in the boonies yesterday to site in, I didn't know what to expect. I can tell you this, the Ruger .270 had the factory 8 pound pull on the trigger which sucks like a shop vac. I installed a Timney trigger on my 300 Ultramag a few years ago and I have it set and one and a half pounds. Try going from a 1 1/2 trigger to an eight pound. I shot my laser finder out 100 yards, set up some targets and grabbed the .270 with the POS Simmons 3x9 scope. (Why the hell would ANYONE hang a Simmons on a 270?) I would rather have a POS gun and a nice scope than the other way around. At least you are going to hit something. Anyhow, I line it up, BOOM! check spotting scope.........nothing....WTF? BOOM..........nothing on the paper yet again. I ended up having to lay the thing across my jeep, taking aim and lifting my head to see where it was going. Two feet high and a foot to the right. No wonder this poor bastard couldn't hit a deer with it. (Who sited this in, Stevie fuggen Wonder?) It took me damn near two boxes of shells to get it two inches high, dead center at a hundred yards. (Dead nuts at 300 yards) Next the 7MM-08, hey, at least it was hitting paper. 12 shots and it was 2 inches high at 100 yards. Next the 300, now by this time my shoulder felt like hamburger. BOOM! wince, shit that hurt! Two inches high at 100. Boom! same thing, Boom! same thing. You could cover the three shots with a dime. Note to self, bore site new guns owned by Helen Keller before heading to the hills next time. So that's my story, anyone killing anything? Last edited by Bwana; 10-29-2005 at 05:02 PM..
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