The Dirty Thirty is now loaded up

Ernie Bishop

I felt like I needed to compensate, for a Zee shooting so many different 6.5 Creeds the last year+. 

Here is 200+ 308 Winchester rounds to encourage him to go back to the cartridge he loves best. 

Three chargemasters sure make things go quicker😎

Wambli Ska

You shoot .308?!?!?!?  That’s not sexy at ALL!!!! 🤣

Elk creek

Nice! 

Ernie Bishop

Wambli Ska said:

You shoot .308?!?!?!?  That’s not sexy at ALL!!!! 🤣

There does seem to be a 308 Win enabler on this forum...That is where the brass for this project came from.

I actually have two 308 Winchester XP-100's

Deep fluted 14.5”

The current sub 16” Sendero taper

Ernie Bishop

Sunday afternoon I went out with a couple of guys from church. One needed to do load development and chronographing and the other one wanted me to chronograph a couple of guns with my Labradar. I wanted to do some drop confirmations with the Dirty Thirty/308 Winchester. We had winds from the north west, which was a quartering headwind for us. I was shooting to the north. After the guys got all of their stuff done, Glen spotted for me while I started doing some drop confirmations. The quartering headwind noticeably pushed my bullets down as I extended distances, but I still had fun. 

Even at 300 yards it took me more elevation to hit my target, then it should’ve. By 400 yards I had a sense of how much I should add at 500 yards. At 500 yards my first shot at the 10 inch diamond target was close to a center hit. 

The 5 inch square target to the right was hit by a guy shooting a 7mm SAUM rifle with 195 Berger’s. 

I did drop confirmations out to 800 yards, but with wind continuing to pick up, I stop there. We shot Glenn’s 41 magnum Smith & Wesson revolver, and had some fun. I decided I wanted to shoot one more shot with my 308 Winchester XP. I picked the upper right small dot on the big rectangular target at 500 yards. 

It always feels good, when you just have a sense of what it should be and you are right, and the shot is very close to where you were aiming at a mid range distance. 

One of our second year shooters, is going to be using this in a couple of weeks for WY-SHOT.  

Ernie Bishop

I will shoot some further distance, when I don't have the wind issue, to make sure my drops are solid

Wambli Ska

I’ll take it back, those are sexy… 

Ernie Bishop

Wambli Ska said:

I’ll take it back, those are sexy… 

Just head this way, and you can play on steel as far as you can imagine.  I even have a rifle you can shoot...if you are so inclined.

Wambli Ska

Ernie Bishop said:

Wambli Ska said:

I’ll take it back, those are sexy… 

Just head this way, and you can play on steel as far as you can imagine.  I even have a rifle you can shoot...if you are so inclined.

I’m working on it, trying to make it permanent 😁

Ernie Bishop

That would be cool!

Wambli Ska

Plan is just about 1 year before the caravan heads west.  But then it will be permanent.  

Zee

They ain’t fancy, but they work.