Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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stinkitup
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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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The Budget Boomer or 358 Stinker as I call it got a good run again this weekend up at Seaham. First time really off the bench and still fire forming loads.

I buggered up and moved the scope to the right thinking another hole was my first shot. Anyway the 3 on the fox to the right were pretty neat to form up and moved them back to centre. Dad and Bimbo had a boom as well :D.

I also tried them at 200m to check for drop. I shot all of these at 4x to get a little more eye relief :lol: except for my 3rd shot at 200m which was on 9x so looks like it does move things perhaps. Anyway for a medium bore looks to easily shoot sub MOA at both 100m and 200m. Looking at the POI at 100 is close to 1.5 inches and drop at 200 is only 2 or less so these are moving along at around 2800 I think will check a few more numbers out but that's moving.

These fireform loads are barely kissing the lands with 47gr of 8208 behind a 200gr ftx. Going to grab a new recoil pad and add some lead to the stock. Freehand is no issue but the front end likes to jump around a little too much. It was always meant to be on the cheap. A B&C Stock would be nice but will mod this for now.
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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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It shoots pretty well, it kicks but isnt what id call unpleasant off bench. The trigger is pretty heavy but breaks pretty clean and with a bit more weight in the stock it would be even nicer off the bench, off the shoulder it would be fine as it is.
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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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Will try that spring this week James.
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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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Looking very good Ryan!!
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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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Thanks Dave. Just ordered a neck die so i can load em up formed now. Almost 10gr more capacity than a swede case so should be fun

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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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stinkitup wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:03 pm Almost 10gr more capacity than a swede case so should be fun

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That's an impressive gain :shock:
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Re: Budget Large Wildcat Varminter

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Yeah the swede is a good candidate for being improved as it has quite a lot of taper in the original case.

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