Savage 110 Tactical 300 Win Mag

[Awag1000]

I recently picked up a Savage 110 tactical in 300 win mag. it has a 24" barrel and I figured it would be a good +1500 yard rifle. I have a SWFA 10x Scope to put on it. I really want to put the time and effort into making this a budget "sniper" rifle. I picked up the rifle for $550. Anyone have a suggestion for a light weight bipod? what would be a good bullet weight for the 1:10 twist? I do reload, although I dont have experience reloading belted magnum cartridge, is there anything different about reloading belted magnums than something like 308 winchester? thanks for your time.

 

[Gatorshark]

I've been looking at the magpul bipod. Everyone that has one seems to like it for the price.

 

[rangerlong]

I think I’d get a harris and a podloc before I got a magpul. I just didn’t think the one I used felt very stable.
The next thing I’d get is a muzzle brake if it doesn’t have one.

Loading the belted magnum isn’t much different.
Supposedly standard dies won’t size all the way to the belt so keep an eye out for bulging right above it.
I haven’t had any issues with my 7mm rem mag being bulged after resizing, But of course ymmv.

Lots of good bullet options for the 1:10 twist. I’ve heard good things about the berger 215 gr hybrid.

 

[ubettcha]

The 110 has about a 3.60~ coal for a magazine. This will put the 200+high bc bullets well into the case. The 195tmk though will run quite well at about 3.580 in a shorter chamber with H1000 or H4831. IMR 4955 and 7977 are close duplicates with great temp sensitivity. I run them in a 308 and they run well in the wind. You would be slinging them in the 3000fps range vs 2700 I can get out of the 308.Get a good brake or can for the rifle and you will enjoy it much more

 

[Awag1000]

Sadly I cant get NFA Items where I live (New Jersey) if that wasnt an issue I'd run a can. I was looking in my Reloading manual (lyman 49th Edition) and it was saying to use Large Rifle Primers. I thought since its a magnum cartridge it would use Magnum primers.

 

[ubettcha]

Start your rifle off with Remington primers they are smaller diameter and will show primer pocket expansion quicker I would load all virgin brass with H4831 9 1/2 primers and test for seating depth while breaking in the barrel and fireforming the brass to your gun. On the second firing 210m or BR2 do a ladder test for ocw and you will have already tested seating so your good. I'm just touching the 195tmk's in the 308 and they shoot bugholes. This is 300 yds 3 shots just after Christmas. This shoots 1 mil left of my 168/175 handloads and FGGM. Once I shot the first one I just held the same poa for the group. Our range went cold for about 20 minutes by then I had about an hour to get 2 rifles through some load testing and didn't finish the 5. I most likely would have dropped one out but the gun really likes this bullet and it was an easy tune to get to shoot.

 

[rangerlong]

The Lyman 50th And their Long Range Precision Rifle Handbook also say to use the WLR primer so I guess it’s not a mistake in the 49th. Speer 15th also uses regular large rifle primers
Hornady 10th and Nosler 8th say to use magnum primers.
Berger says to use magnum primers in all magnum cartridges, but doesn’t specify which primers they used in their load data.

 

[Awag1000]

good info to know, my local gun shop has specials on CCI primers, ill try to get my hands on some of those Remington primers. I have a few hundred Nosler RDF 210gr 308 bullets I played around with my Savage 10 FCP-SR. definitely would come in handy with the 300wm

 

[ubettcha]

I would use a magnum primer for winter shooting and regular primers for summer or fireforming/break-in. I have had great luck with 9 1/2m's in the 270 Winchester and 7 rem mag running 168's. 215's once I get to 70+ grains of powder. Some powders work better when pressure builds slowly so a standard primer works very well. Some of the slow powders like the bullets to have longer bearing surface area so pressure builds quicker so a magnum primer produces a better result. In a 300 winchester start with 70 grains of H4831 with a 195tmk loaded so the bullet just touches. Your ladder should move up past 73 grains without excessive pressure. 73 has been very good for me with the 190smk 200 partition and 200 Hot core from speer. The tipped matchkings are also a very good bullet for deer and down. I don't hunt elk or live near where I could hunt them so I cannot give an educated answer on that.
Lastly I had tremendous accuracy with H4831 in the various 300 mags I've owned. H1000 will have more speed with the heavies and it is well documented. Enjoy your new rifle

 

[EHans34]

1:10 will work great from 160-230. Since you hand-load, I’d recommend Hornady’s 208 Amax rounds. Those will do the job out to a mile. I’d you really want to split atoms, Sierra makes a great 230 GR hybrid round that works perfectly in a 1:10. I hope I could have been of service to you.

 

[Awag1000]

1:10 will work great from 160-230. Since you hand-load, I’d recommend Hornady’s 208 Amax rounds. Those will do the job out to a mile. I’d you really want to split atoms, Sierra makes a great 230 GR hybrid round that works perfectly in a 1:10. I hope I could have been of service to you.

I was looking at the Nosler 210gr RDF bullets. I've had good luck with the 208 Amax with my Savage 10 308 winchester. thank you.

 

[EHans34]

What kind of velocity can you get out of a .308 with 208 GR rounds?

 

[Awag1000]

What kind of velocity can you get out of a .308 with 208 GR rounds?

I havent Chrono'd them yet, but they seem to be moving pretty slow.

 

[Yote Klr]

I recently picked up a Savage 110 tactical in 300 win mag. it has a 24" barrel and I figured it would be a good +1500 yard rifle. I have a SWFA 10x Scope to put on it. I really want to put the time and effort into making this a budget "sniper" rifle. I picked up the rifle for $550. Anyone have a suggestion for a light weight bipod? what would be a good bullet weight for the 1:10 twist? I do reload, although I dont have experience reloading belted magnum cartridge, is there anything different about reloading belted magnums than something like 308 winchester? thanks for your time.

I know that this is an old thread but..
Can someone verify that the MDT magazine on the 110 Tactical is 3.85" please.

Thanks

 

[Awag1000]

I know that this is an old thread but..
Can someone verify that the MDT magazine on the 110 Tactical is 3.85" please.

Thanks

The Long action 110 tactical 300WM and 338LM use a 3.850 magazine.

 

[Yote Klr]

Awesome, thanks.

 

[Ty21]

There is a die for resizing the bottom part of the case for belted magnums. it’s called belted magnum collet resizing die by Larry Wilson it’s pricey but if you have that problem it’ll fix it

 

[Awag1000]

There is a die for resizing the bottom part of the case for belted magnums. it’s called belted magnum collet resizing die by Larry Wilson it’s pricey but if you have that problem it’ll fix it

I have since obtained one of these and it is well worth the money.