The Dirty Thirty

[xphunter]

This is my BCG 308 Winchester XP-100, using a Remington take-off 308 Winchester barrel chopped to 15.8”, Holland’s Radial Baffle Brake, Leupold Mark IV 4.5-15, McMillan stock, and a factory trigger.


Video Below: Factory TAP with 168 A-Max.
Reloads: 1x fired Hornady Match 308 Win brass, CCI primer, H-4895, 155 A-Max at 2720 fps.
Groups were at 100 yards.




The last 3-shot group was by Dan Ekstrom, with his MagnetoSpeed attached and the group size was close to mine. This XP-100 shoots great!
Next up is doing some drop confirmations at distance.
It will be used for my personal enjoyment and hunting, but will also be a loaner XP for WY-SHOT.
Video:

 

[Ironicaintit]

That's neat!
I always like them in 221 fireball, but yours is a whole 'nother level

 

[xphunter]

That's neat!
I always like them in 221 fireball, but yours is a whole 'nother level

Thanks.
I am spoiled with a number of custom XP-100's

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Wow, thats a heckuva group at 100 from a handgun! Looks like fun too.

 

[xphunter]

Wow, that's a heckuva group at 100 from a handgun! Looks like fun too.

My XP's typically shoot that good and more often than not, better than that.

The real fun is shooting them at extended distances.
Drop confirmations out to a grand or so, will really give me a feel for it.

 

[tark]

Thanks.
I am spoiled with a number of custom XP-100's

xphunter, I worked for Les Baer for 21 years. Back in the 70s and 80s when he was still in Pennsylvania he got a reputation of building some pretty fancy XPs He won a lot of matches. I have marveled at some of his builds. He has showed me targets that look just like yours. If you wanted to put a smile on his face, even today, just ask him about his XPs.

I think his favorite story is the one where he showed up at a benchrest match ( Rifles, don't know what class ) and proceeded to outshoot everyone on the line with his pet XP. I have personally, at the range watched him shoot inch groups at 200 yards.

 

[xphunter]

xphunter, I worked for Les Baer for 21 years. Back in the 70s and 80s when he was still in Pennsylvania he got a reputation of building some pretty fancy XPs He won a lot of matches. I have marveled at some of his builds. He has showed me targets that look just like yours. If you wanted to put a smile on his face, even today, just ask him about his XPs.

I think his favorite story is the one where he showed up at a benchrest match ( Rifles, don't know what class ) and proceeded to outshoot everyone on the line with his pet XP. I have personally, at the range watched him shoot inch groups at 200 yards.

When you visit with him next time, please tell him, "Hello" from an XP-100 freak.
Some 100 yard groups, 3-shot, 5-shot and 10 from specialty pistols:





6.5-284 is a 10-shot group:


22-250 3-shot group...Still need to subtract caliber

 

[horsemen61]

Thanks.
I am spoiled with a number of custom XP-100's

How many do you have and in what calibers?

 

[xphunter]

How many do you have and in what calibers?

A bunch...
Smallest would be the 17 Mach IV, 17 Remington, 20 Vartarg, 20 BR, and 223 Remington
Biggest bolt action specialty pistols: 26 Nosler, 7mm Dakota, 7mm-300 PRC, 300 RUM, and the 375 CT

 

[horsemen61]

A bunch...
Smallest would be the 17 Mach IV, 17 Remington, 20 Vartarg, 20 BR, and 223 Remington
Biggest bolt action specialty pistols: 26 Nosler, 7mm Dakota, 7mm-300 PRC, 300 RUM, and the 375 CT

Awesomeness while I have no practical knowledge on the subject I tend to enjoy seeing them and one day I will have one…… or a bunch

 

[xphunter]

If you like these, You could always shoot one of mine for several days on steel at distance. The day after Father's day...

 

[horsemen61]

Sadly I don’t think that’s in the cards but thank you for the offer!

 

[tark]

When you visit with him next time, please tell him, "Hello" from an XP-100 freak.
Some 100 yard groups, 3-shot, 5-shot and 10 from specialty pistols:

Will do!

 

[xphunter]

Loaded 50 more up earlier this week, waiting for things to dry up and wind to be decent for drop confirmations.

 

[xphunter]

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. 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 with 195 Berger’s.
I did drop confirmations out to 800 yards, but with Wynne 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 WYSHOT.

 

[Engineer1911]

And some folks are worried about sniper rifles?

 

[horsemen61]

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. 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.
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The 5 inch square target to the right was hit by a guy shooting a 7mm SAUM with 195 Berger’s.
I did drop confirmations out to 800 yards, but with Wynne 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.
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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 WYSHOT.

Great shooting I love that setup btw!

 

[xphunter]

And some folks are worried about sniper rifles?

A well built XP-100 can be just as accurate as any custom rifle.

 

[xphunter]

Great shooting I love that setup BTW!

It turned out really great IMO.
The guy who used it for WY-SHOT 3 weeks ago, came in 2nd place shooting it.
He has been bugging me every since to buy it