Winchester 88 accuracy .....
After 23 years of safe sitting I took my Model 88 Win. # 79xx .308 out recently. My ammo is mixed LC brass 49 gr 852 with Win 150 gr softpoint. At 100 yards with sandbag I'm getting 2 inch groups with a Redfield Widefield 3 x 9 .I'll add that this was loaded in December of 1995. I think it's pretty good performance considering the mixed brass. If I loaded it now I'd use same lot commercial, but back then I loaded alot and didn't worry that much about pinpoint accuracy in a lever action. What do you think of that performance?
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It would catch dinner at reasonable ranges. 0 -
A friend of mine has an 88 308 and he's lucky if he keeps them in a 5" group at 100 yards, but I suspect it's more of the loose nut behind the buttplate than anything in the rifle. I have a 100 308 that I expect to take to the range later this week. I've had the gun laying around for a couple years and finally getting around to shooting it. Earlier this week it did pass the first test-that being that I could take it apart (completely) and put it back together- the first time getting it back together I only had one part left over. On the second try I saw where the part (a pin in the bolt) and been and wondered how I could have missed it the first time around. Elmer Keith did an article on them about 1960 and found them to be accurate within a particular bullet weight. I'll be trying 165 gr and will get back with the results. 0 -
The rifle is capable of better than that. It is a great rifle. 0 -
I have put 3 holes touching at 100 yards, with my hand loads. I cant do it all the time (me) 308 with a 150 gr. nosler BT Taken a lot of Elk and deer with that gun. Wife took it away from me, and has taken one Elk and a few deer with it. 0 -
I have 2 pre 64 model 88s, a 308 and a 284, both shot right at 1"-1 1/2" MOA. We refer to it as minute of elk.
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I took the 100 to the range today to sight-in after changing some scopes around. I'll have to try it again to confirm where it's hitting from a cold barrel; but other than the worst trigger pull since an M14, they grouped within 2 inches at 100 yards. Actually the trigger pull wasn't that bad, it was just that I alternated between a Sako 85, Weatherby FN, and a Win M70, which made for a gravelly comparison. 0 -
I inherited my Dad's 1957 ?? Model 88 308. With careful handloads, it was a sub-MOA gun from a rest. amazing. it's the deluxe one with monte carlo stock, checkering, nicer wood. I still remember looking at the targets and all the holes were touching on the target, it looked like a target for a bolt action, not a lever action. 0 -
I bought one new when they first came out for $110. I liked it so much I bought another one, to have in case something happened to the first one I still have the second one new in the box, never fired! 0 -
I'm glad to hear about the good accuracy so many of you have gotten. I'll definitely use the same brass batch when I load the next time. Do you think 852 is an appropriate powder?
I still have 3 pounds and don't use it in other calibers.0 -
I have a pre-64 Win Model-88 in .308 caliber. It is a great looking rifle with a custom Bishop stock. I have had the rifle for 50 years. It shoots good with a cold barrel, but after about 4 to 6 shots off a bench with a warming and heating barrel the bullet impact drifts. The Bishop stock is glass bedded and the barrel is free floating. I attribute the bullet impact drift to the heating barrel. I belief that the barrel on my rifle was manufactured from bar stock that came from the outer area of the original steel sheet. The steel sheet is rolled in a rolling mill and the outer edges of the metal sheet cool faster than the central or interior areas. Hence, the crystal structure sets early on in the manufacture of the rolled steel sheet. The steel sheet is then cut into billets or stock for use in barrels. Stressed billets will become stressed barrels and will deform in some direction because of significant temperature induction, mainly heat from burned propellant. Berg. 0
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