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**The Reaper** · 12-24-2006, 12:28

Gene:

Roger all.

I was first loading for the .300 WM with 190s and unprepped once fired brass. Groups were huge. I thought the rifle was screwed.

A benchrest guy told me to prep the brass (and loaned me the expensive tools to weigh, segregate, measure case volume, uniform the primer pockets, turn the case necks, check runout, and measure the seating depth off the lands), and the gunsmith who built it told me that he set it up for the heavy bullets loaded to single shot (not-mag length) OAL, I broke the code and found I had a 1/4 moa rifle, if I did my part.

As I said, that was almost 20 years ago, and I know that the .300 WM has been superceded, but I am an old school guy and no longer compete, so it shoots fine for my needs.

I came into a quantity of loaded 190 gr. Federal rounds, so I bought a Remington PSS in .300 WM, but have put almost as much money into it getting it to shoot as the first rifle cost, so it has been a false economy, except for the fun I get from burning powder and punching holes.

My reloading gear has also been in storage for a few years waiting for space to open up to unpack it. I figure I will soon have spent enough on storage unit fees to have bought a new larger house to have started with.

TR

12-24-2006, 12:28	#8
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,806	Gene: Roger all. I was first loading for the .300 WM with 190s and unprepped once fired brass. Groups were huge. I thought the rifle was screwed. A benchrest guy told me to prep the brass (and loaned me the expensive tools to weigh, segregate, measure case volume, uniform the primer pockets, turn the case necks, check runout, and measure the seating depth off the lands), and the gunsmith who built it told me that he set it up for the heavy bullets loaded to single shot (not-mag length) OAL, I broke the code and found I had a 1/4 moa rifle, if I did my part. As I said, that was almost 20 years ago, and I know that the .300 WM has been superceded, but I am an old school guy and no longer compete, so it shoots fine for my needs. I came into a quantity of loaded 190 gr. Federal rounds, so I bought a Remington PSS in .300 WM, but have put almost as much money into it getting it to shoot as the first rifle cost, so it has been a false economy, except for the fun I get from burning powder and punching holes. My reloading gear has also been in storage for a few years waiting for space to open up to unpack it. I figure I will soon have spent enough on storage unit fees to have bought a new larger house to have started with. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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