Smokless bullets.
Herman I don't know what you are shooting but I am impressed. I couldn't put five shoots in the paper with any front end loader I ever owned.
The Bombs shoot well as long as Keith is still making them. Luke was buying all he had last i heard. The Pittman bullets are excellent also and after talking with Kyle personally on the phone during the 40 cal bullet project and testing hes a good guy too.Herman have you tried any of Keith’s bombs and if you did what did you think? I am kind of on the fence about I either need to get back into shooting my savage or go ahead and sell it.
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The Bombs shoot well as long as Keith is still making them. Luke was buying all he had last i heard. The Pittman bullets are excellent also and after talking with Kyle personally on the phone during the 40 cal bullet project and testing hes a good guy too.
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I have had such good luck shooting the 325 FTX out of my 50 cal savage that I have never really felt a need to change, but I am thinking I need to get off my butt and use that savage more or move it down the road and let someone else enjoy it.
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If you're gun shoots good no reason to change unless you are stretching it out past 250-300 and then the BC of the customs really shine. Price is the only negative with them. You really need to shoot them sabotless out of a 45 cal to really make them shine to their potential and speed though IMO.
I have been testing the Fury bullets that Dennis has been making. We have played with many variations. ]
I have been toying with the idea of a smokeless gun for a couple of years now and i have learned enough on the internet to be dangerous. So i have a couple of questions for you guys who seem to know what they are doing and have built/do build these guns.
1) I don’t shoot a lot and don’t shoot match competitions. i have some hunting shot opportunities at 300-400 yards quite often and i see that these guns are capable of that. I really don’t see myself trying to shoot much farther than that. So... for a guy like me would you suggest a break action or bolt gun for couple of weeks out of the year shooter?
2) what is a real world price on a custom bolt gun or a break action conversion? The prices i see are all over the place from several hundred for a conversion upwards of $3-4K for a truly custom gun (and i don’t see myself spending that on a gun to be shot a couple of times a year).
3) Is it just simpler to buy a Savage ML II? If so, what kind of ranges are they capable of?
4) .45 cal or .50?
Thanks in advance
A 700ml conversion will run about 1k or so, assuming you get a decent deal on the donor. the 700mls are becoming harder and harder to find at good prices, but another alternative is to buy a lower end savage CF or 700 CF and have it converted to a SML. that will run about the same price as a 700ml conversion will. but that price is just bare gun and then you have to add optics and other things. Honestly a sml conversion is cheaper then a custom SML, but it is by no means cheap. if you plan to hunt states that do not have a rifle season, then a SML makes sense, but if you are only planning on using it NC for ML season only, then I don believe you would be wise to spend the cash on a SML bolt gun. I did hunt with mine a good amount during the regular season due to the county I live in have a minimum height requiremtn for centerfire rifles use, so I will carry it instead of my slug gun when I have longer shots possible.I have been toying with the idea of a smokeless gun for a couple of years now and i have learned enough on the internet to be dangerous. So i have a couple of questions for you guys who seem to know what they are doing and have built/do build these guns.
1) I don’t shoot a lot and don’t shoot match competitions. i have some hunting shot opportunities at 300-400 yards quite often and i see that these guns are capable of that. I really don’t see myself trying to shoot much farther than that. So... for a guy like me would you suggest a break action or bolt gun for couple of weeks out of the year shooter?
2) what is a real world price on a custom bolt gun or a break action conversion? The prices i see are all over the place from several hundred for a conversion upwards of $3-4K for a truly custom gun (and i don’t see myself spending that on a gun to be shot a couple of times a year).
3) Is it just simpler to buy a Savage ML II? If so, what kind of ranges are they capable of?
4) .45 cal or .50?
Thanks in advance