Changes since the original post.

by MR, Saturday, August 20, 2016, 22:36 (3019 days ago) @ MR

The first 16 and a bit cut and threading yielded baffle strikes. First job on a new lathe at that shop - pffft. So after mulling around for a bit and deciding it really needed to have the suppressed option or I would never be happy with it, I sent it to ADCO and had it recut to 15 inches and a Yankee Hill mount permanently mounted to it's snout. I could have gone to 14 inches before the mount and it would still be legal without sbr'ing it but Hodgdon has load data for a 15 inch 7mm-08 in it's pistol section on the web.

Also the scope is now the Leupold Mark AR in an Armalite mount off of one of my AR's.
It seemed a better option. The mil dot reticle worked out well for hold over and ranging at the ranges at Whittington. That's a EGW rail on it. The Handi Rifle rail wouldn't fit the Armalite mount spacing. We were shooting plain old Hornady 139 American Whitetail factory ammo that I caught on sale at Academy. I'm working on a 160 Sierra load that will stay supersonic well past 100 yards out of the 15 inch barrel - for no other reason than it's just something I want to mess with.

I'll probably put together some weight Nosler partition load for hogs at the Rocking D.