ORIGINAL: popeye
If you're going to have a rifle built then it's obvious to me that the STW is the only choice.
Why invest the time and money in building a 7mm Rem Mag or 300 Win Mag when is so easy to buy one at any gun shop.
If we were to follow that jacked up sense of logic, thenthere wouldnever ever be any need for another custom 22-250, 243 Win, 270 Win, 7mm Rem Mag, 308 Win, 30-06, 300 Win Mag, etc, etc, to ever be built again.[&:]
Man, that would put a hurting on us custom rifle builders.
ORIGINAL: Doe Dumper
STW!! A ballistic chart reader's wet dream!
If you think that's wet dream, then check out the 7mm RUM. The STW sucks hind teet to the 7mm RUM.
ORIGINAL: Ridge Runner
load that STW with 200 gr wildcats at 3100 fps and it'll put a spankin on the 300 winny.
I have an STW, had it built in '96, with good bullets it'll do whatever a 30 will do. with 140's it'll pulverize whitetails to 600 yds, with 160 accubonds its great elk medicine, with the 200 gr wildcat at 3100 fps, (BC of .85+ at 4500 ft.) its a 1K dream.
IMO, I don't see how your rifle can shoot 140gr-200gr bullets withsuch consistant accuracy, over such a wide weight span. Seems to me, that the 200gr bullets would need a 1:9, 1:8, or even a 1:7 twist toshoot accurately. With that fast of a twist, you can only hope to get minute-of-whitetail, with 140gr bullets if yourfortunate.
With a 1:10 twist you may get tad betteraccuracy with the 140gr's, the accuracy with the 200gr's would be tad worse, and optimum accuracry with the 160gr's-175gr's.
With a 1:12 twist, you get optimum accuracy with 140gr's,fair accuracy with 160gr's, and basically wasting your time with 200gr's.
What kind of twist are you shooting in your rifle to get such great accuracy out of such a wide variety of bullet weights??