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Offline Reed1911

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.300 Remington Ultra Mag
« on: September 18, 2004, 10:11:25 AM »
Just letting everyone know we have added the .300 RUM to our lineup of cartridges. It took a while to get everything just right, it sure is hard on the shoulder during testing.
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.300 Remington Ultra Mag
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2004, 01:55:14 PM »
What do you think of the "Ultra" mag?     My Self, as a custom rifle builder I am not impressed by it.    It beats out the 300 Weatherby by a few feet per second with a hell of a lot more recoil.    I have not seen any extreme accuracy with factory rifles.    To really capitalize on this cartridge and its 7mm brother you seem to need a slower twist and 29" barrels.    For example I built three 7mm ultras before Remington came out with it and to get what we should get for performance and accuracy we ran 1 in 11 twist barrels and 29" for length.     With a standard 1 in 9 twist we found that 140 grain bullets would shoot well until we exceeded 3400 fps then the groups opened up.    With the 1 in 11 twist we reached 3570 fps with three shot groups averaging .427 extreme spread.    Now the 1 in 9 twist of a rechambered Sendaro, after some "tweaking" shot 175 grain bullets into one hole groups at 3450 fps.    
    Both these cartridges do not really seem to go well into a practical, easy handling hunting rifle.    However if one wants the ultimate .30 cal look at the 30/378 and forget the Ultra but again you want a 29"+ barrel and heavy bullets, 165 or heaver.
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.300 Remington Ultra Mag
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2004, 02:20:07 PM »
More recoil than I can to put up with. But there is a high demand for accurate super velocity cartridges. The Major factory production leaves a LOT to be desired accuracy wise, and when customers start asking, we start producing. Needless to say it took a lot of time at the bench, a lot of brused shoulders, and a ton of powder. But we did come up with some very nice loads that shoot.
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2004, 08:41:03 AM »
I have a Rem 700 BDL s/s syntheyic stocked 300Rum with a 4.5-14X leupold Vari-X 111 scope, which has become one of my favorite rifles. I am getting 3380fps with 180gr Scirroco's that produces 3/4" 100 yard groups and on a good day and I am doing my part can produce 8"X10" groups at 500 yards.
Not bad for a standard production rifle that has had no extra's done to it..........
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