30 caliber rifles and unfortunately these bullets have not delivered quite as small groups as the lighter bullets in my Winchester and Marlin rifles. I prefer the 170-grain bullets for hunting use in the. With cast bullets my best accuracy comes from LBT bullets of the short nose variety, the LFN bullets giving good hunting accuracy. In Micro-groove rifling I have received my best accuracy using jacketed bullets with good bearing surface and a short nose. My Winchester rifles have delivered better accuracy using the Hornady factory ammunition and component bullets. To my surprise I have not been able to get what I consider my best accuracy in rifles with Micro-groove rifling when using the FTX bullet. I have taken several deer with the FTX bullet and it creates some remarkable entrance and exit wounds. Hornady has a great deal to be proud of with its new FTX bullet and its LeveRevolution ammunition.
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Nonneman and these are indeed, 1” rifles.Ĭertainly any factory lever action rifle which regularly shoots groups close to 1” using full power hunting loads is a keeper. Seattleloader posts on this board and he has two custom Marlins barreled for the 307 Winchester cartridges by Mr.
This rifle will get very close to the magic 1” mark but I do not believe it is a: “one inch rifle.”
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Marlin has taken care in fitting the locking bolt to the sliding bolt and used nylon strips to ensure the magazine tube remains free and does not bind the barrel. I have a 22” barrel Marlin 308MX which right out of the box has displayed remarkable accuracy using both factory ammunition and handloads. Consistency from the bench when shooting lever action rifles is difficult. It is also quite easy to shoot two shots at ½” with a third shot opening the group to 2”. Many of these rifles must be lightly tuned before they will deliver this level of performance.
In general terms I like to believe all of the modern lever action rifles shooting full power hunting loads (not necessarily maximum loads) are capable of delivering sub 2” groups at 100-yards, shooting 3 shot groups.
This Winchester 307 rifle shoots these two bullets well enough I have no qualms about saying: “Watch this….” As I sit down to shoot. This rifle has been worked on a little having a 3 pound trigger and a loose magazine tube. Both of these bullets have delivered a good number of 3 shot groups which have measured less than 1” using the RCBS Load Target Tool to measure the groups (I shoot fewer 1” groups when using Target Tool to measure them and I have complained about this to Greg Mushial, he wrote the software). The 2 bullets are the Speer 130-grain JFN Hot Core and the older smooth side 150-grain Barnes X. My Model 94 Big Bore rifle using a 3x scope will shoot 2 different bullets down close to the 1” mark at 100-yards – from the bench - using full power-hunting loads – 3 shot groups. Now in all honesty I have never gotten a 94 to shoot that well. With my handloads featuring the 160 FTX and the 150 Hornady rn's my Marlin shoots right at MOA and sometimes below.
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