Just to echo what’s already been said, I’ve shot a 308 substantially further than 1k when I lived in AZ. Used to go out and bust rocks, and see how far we could connect in under 3 rounds. It’s a lot of fun to fling them way out there.
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308 Beyond 1K YARDS
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I routinely shoot at 1125 and 1400 yards. I'm shooting a 24" 1 -10 twist AI AX using 178 eldm at about 2700fps. I'm in Texas at about 1000' ele. This morning at 1125 i corrected after the first shot and hit a 12" plate the next 7 out of 9. Then went 3 for 3 on a 4' hi x 2' wide plate at 1400...holding 4 mils of wind. The wind was pretty steady today though. In my rifle, I'm not sure I can load ammo that's more accurate than FGMM 185 JUGGERNAUT.
I have only shot the 178 eldm and the185 juggs in factory ammo. I have some of the bergers to load but haven't yet.
I'm going to try it with my AR-10 with a 19" barrel from deadshotbarrels.com. I have shot out to 1200 before but with mixed results and crappy fundamentals. I'm back at 50yds now trying to learn to not suck. When I master 50 I will move to 100 and stay there until I can "actually" shoot "moa all day". Then move out a bit more and keep going like that. As fun as it is to shoot far I got ahead of myself and it led to a lot of frustration.
As you extend the range with an AR-10, you may have to ignore how it groups at some point. I have an Armalite .308 AR-10 with a 20" 1:12 barrel. On a low-wind day, it will shoot under 0.7 MOA at 100 but by 400, sub-MOA is about the best I can expect. We have made hits at 1K but it's a bit of a crap shoot. Then again, the ammo is cheap and it's all good fun.
Shouldn’t really be a stretch to get .308 out to a 1000. First rifle I ever took out that far was a Remington 700 trued with a Krieger 1-10 22” barrel. I shot 175s out to a thousand pretty easy.
For a factory load offering, what do you think of this:
Federal Gold Medal Long-Range 308 Winchester Ammo 185 Grain Berger Juggernaut Open Tip Match
https://www.federalpremium.com/products/rifle/gold-medal/gold-medal-berger/gm308bh185
Is your camera in reverse? the steering wheels are on the wrong side.These are my 308s. Both are plussed-up Rem 700 Varmint LH. I added the goodies from McMillan, Timney, Badger Ordnance.
The 20.5" wears the HTG stock, 40 MOA Nightforce base, 10X SWFA.
The 22" wears the A5 stock, 45 MOA Badger Ord base, 12X SWFA.
I ran the numbers for 178H ELDX, close at 1000 at around 1300 FPS according to the Hornady ballistics Calculator. if you can get a couple of more .1's of powder in there safely you could probably squeeze another 50 fps. Transsonic is appx 1350 fps
I was looking at those. Im currently looking for factory offerings..
I know Hornady offers the 178 ELDX..
https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/308-win-178-gr-eld-x-precision-hunter#!/
But I see these offerings as well for the 185 Juggernaut which everyone seems to love...
https://www.federalpremium.com/products/rifle/gold-medal/gold-medal-berger/gm308bh185
and directly from berger
https://bergerbullets.com/product/308-winchester-185gr-juggernaut-otm/
https://bergerbullets.com/product/308-winchester-185gr-juggernaut-target/
Out of the 4, the Federal has the best price, followed by the Hornady, then the Bergers.
Not sure which load to go with, hoping some of yall would have some good experience data for me to sort through.
Thoughts?
I have an AIAX 308. I have loaded 178 ELDM's since it was new. I mostly shoot steel but have shot a few groups on paper at 1125. I can hold .75-1 moa of vehicle at that distance as long as I don't pull one. A buddy have me a box of FGGM 185 juggernauts to try. They were sub .5 moa at all distances. 
At 1125 I shot this 5 round group... just one group but promising. I have some bergers to load but haven't done so yet
At 1125 I shot this 5 round group... just one group but promising. I have some bergers to load but haven't done so yet
I know this is an old discussion but did anyone true there BC and MV when shooting their 308 out to 1000? Im shooting a 175gr smk at 2730 fps and know its still supersonic, but was wondering what distance y'all if anyone trued their MV in their ballistic program.
so far, i haven't had to out to 609, but i would enter real data at any point the actual shooting starts to deviate from the what the software predicts.
note this isn't changing the "velocity" but the poi, and the software decides where it went wrong and adjusts (i assume velocity here).
the problem when bullets go subsonic is that some of them will lose stability and that makes it harder if not impossible to predict within your preferred margin of error. the best way to find out what happens in real life is to shoot and see (if you can).
some people are lucky enough to have equipment to give them downrange velocities.
/i have a box of hornady superformance to try and see if the extra velocity (20" barrel) helps, even though it isn't the SMK that is known to work.
from what I can tell I'm not going to hit the transonic range until 1100 yds which is as far as I have to shoot anyway, and I'm not going to shoot my 308 past that distance. However I want to have all variables accounted for for the maximum distance of any of my rifles, and have been reading about truing your ballistics software (Applied Ballistics). 800 yds is where you should true your MV in your software (as best I can tell) and then at 1000 should true the BC of the bullet in your software. Is that what you mean by real data at the point of deviation from software?
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