Doc's Remington 700 .243 at 850 yards

Doc picked a nice, hot day to shoot his Remington 700 chambered in .243 at long range. The target is about 850 yards out. It look like there are 2 or 3 hits in there but I know Doc has shot better than that on many occassions.

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Science & Technology

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• long range shooting
• rifle
• .243
• Remington 700
• rage
• target
• marksmanship

[Myia76]

Is it a Bell and Carlson stock or McMillan

[ghillisniper300]

@Myia76 I'll ask Doc but I think it is a knock off of a McMillan.

[cheevous]

I have a Remington 700 VLS 243 bull barrel with the laminate wood, it is a beautiful rifle and extremely accurate. I am shooting reloads with a 75 gr Hornady V max bullet. I zero that rifle at 200 yards. I am getting 1 inch groups or less at 200. It is an amazing rifle. I have a RRA AR 15 heavy varmint 18 inch bull barrel. It will do the same thing. I have fun trying to shoot golf balls at 200 yards.

[ghillisniper300]

@cheevous Yeah, those are both great guns. Very fun to shoot and very accurate. That Remington isn't bad for a $500 gun! It makes one wonder if paying a couple thousand for a custom rifle is worth it? Maybe, if you shoot competitions.

[cheevous]

@ghillisniper300 It makes me wonder too. You can get a krieger or some other high quality custom but at 100 yards I am shooting less than half MOA. My 243 and 223 are both shooting in the .300 to .400 range. More than accurate enough for me. When you are hitting golf balls at 200 yards that is pretty damn good. I will save the money and buy more rem 700's and AR 15 bull barrels. I am looking at a heavy barrel AR 10 right now.

[ghillisniper300]

@cheevous I have a friend with a couple of Surgeons and those are really freaking cool. I have to admit. Trying to shoot a small target at 640 yards is a totally different thing with his guns and my heavy barrel .300 Win Mag. But I'm in the same camp with you, I personally don't need a laser beam if it costs me that much money. You can trick a Rem 700 out for a lot less. And a heavy barrel AR sounds like fun, and a lot of heavy lead going down range.

[Doc6mm]

@Myia76

Bell and Carlson with the aluminum bedding block and then glass bedded, it works extremely well for the money. This stock will shoot 1/4th inch groups after bedding 1" groups without.

[longsnipz]

Looks like someone forgot to degrease the rifle and scope before poof canning the green paint. .243 is a great round. iv killed whitetails out to 600yrds with mine. and groundhogs out to 780yrds. i use handloads- the only thing i use! sierra bullets are accurate and a good deer pill.

[Doc6mm]

@CoDOgeneral

The farthest ive shot a deer is 450yds, and a coyote near 650ish no range finder just based on doop on the rifle, I've also taken some armadillo's at a couple hundred. With that rifle no wind and a known range and I would be very confident in shooting deer out to 500 with handloads. I've shot the 6mm with berger 105vlds to 1066yds and produced consistent 8" groups but with alittle wind those groups easily turn into 15" groups.

[ghillisniper300]

@xXGMonsterXx9 It's Doc6mm's rig and I don't remember right off what he's topped it with. I'll try to ask him. I have a feeling it's not what you'd guess it is!

I have a Millett TRS-1 4-16X50 on my .300 Win Mag that I love so far. I need to review it, becuase it was about $300 which is pretty darn cheap as far as scopes go and it seems to be a great quality scope.

Thanks again.