Thread: Anyone shooting .50 BMG target rifles?

^^Russ,

For sure, it is a bit limiting here as well. I was just looking at the HPS website - 75 GBP for 1 kg of the 20n29 (recommended for the cartridge). Thats quite expensive. Best deal I have found in Canada was $175 for 8lbs of Hodgdon. Trouble is you can't just import powder from the US...

Originally Posted by JohnnyNorth

^^Russ,

For sure, it is a bit limiting here as well. I was just looking at the HPS website - 75 GBP for 1 kg of the 20n29 (recommended for the cartridge). Thats quite expensive. Best deal I have found in Canada was $175 for 8lbs of Hodgdon. Trouble is you can't just import powder from the US...

Look up graf and sons supply out of missouri. Their powder is usually dirt cheap and their service is amazing.

Powder Valley inc and wideners also have some good prices on reloading components

Powder Valley, Inc.

Widener's Reloading and Shooting Supply INC

HTH,
Paul

Natchez & Midway are also a couple of great places to buy reloading supplies FWIW, but shipping is a bugger even CONUS.

Though not a .50, I do have a custom (by yours truly) .300wsm, 24" douglas barrel + 2" brake, sitting on a winchester action, & tuned Timney trigger. I haven't gotten to shoot at 1000yds to date (what she was built for), but she is pie plate deadly all day long at 600yds prone off the bi-pod. I'm sure it would do fine at 1000yds off bags. Recoil is minute as it's so stinkin' heavy. Barrel is .80" at the brake and 1.25" at the receiver. Nikon optics...

[QUOTE=shooter74743;810403]Natchez & Midway are also a couple of great places to buy reloading supplies FWIW, but shipping is a bugger even CONUS.

Though not a .50, I do have a custom (by yours truly) .300wsm, 24" douglas barrel + 2" brake, sitting on a winchester action, & tuned Timney trigger. I haven't gotten to shoot at 1000yds to date (what she was built for), but she is pie plate deadly all day long at 600yds prone off the bi-pod. I'm sure it would do fine at 1000yds off bags. Recoil is minute as it's so stinkin' heavy. Barrel is .80" at the brake and 1.

Very nice! The Army retooled a bunch of their .308s to 300s.. I am not sur that it was that great of an idea..although a better round byfar, the kick from shooting all day can develop a hellava flinch in a shooter. I know that 7 mm puts me in the hurt locker every time i put more than 15 rounds through it. I do like that winchestbase though.. Wereyou a marine? That is what their base m40 is built off..that short action is nice when you need to send follow on shots. The Army m24 is off the remmington long action. You have to lift your head up every time you jack a round.

I apologize if this is turning into highjacked thread....i think some folks have found a common interest here. Maybe start a long range shooting club here? I can talk precision shooting all day long. I don't have many people in the neighborhood to talk to about windage, mirage and ballistics....I think it creeps them out.

Originally Posted by Wintchase

I apologize... talk about windage, mirage and ballistics....I think it creeps them out.

As if talk about a straight razor hasn't put them off already? Let them get over it.

I have never found myself interested in the 300 WinMag until I got to shoot a Sako TRG (in Missouri, where fine shootin' irons are still appreciated). I was impressed. I've shot a lot of big bore stuff over the years (each time someone asked Do you want to try? and some more or less brutal and unpleasant) and it all comes down to the angle of the stock and setup of the rifle.

My bucket list includes one of these: 20mm SNIPER RIFLE--AWESOME !

Originally Posted by Wintchase

Wereyou a marine?

Nope, I was a bubblehead that changed rate from FTG3(SS) to Hull Technician (glorified pipefitter) to make E5. I actually didn't get into precision shooting until I met/made a lifelong friend who was an old sniper when I lived in Kansas CIty. He started me out on .22lr @ 100 yards. Once infected with the long range bug I couldn't get enough. Most folks don't realize the science of it all.