Yes Kent Reeve did do it 3x, once with 6.5-284, then with 2155's and with 2156's. Phil Crowe also shot a clean with 17 couple years back at Oak Ridge. However it may have just been a club match so wasn't an official record.
Thomas won Wimbleton Cup with a 7mm RSAUM. I scored both him and Phil in the shoot off. What I remember about Thomas's string was it just took him awhile to get with the wind and then he started hammering X's. His load is still hammering 180's out there pretty hard. Think its in the 3,050fps range and that will shoot inside of anything. From what another friend in the Oak Ridge area said the AMU use to shoot their load there but found if they backed it down they got less fliers. However hasn't proven to be an issue for Thomas. The other thing before you start thinking that its all ballistics is earlier in the season Thomas went down to Blakely and took second in a regional there shooting a palma rifle to John Whidden beating all the AMU's any rifles. So just shows that ballistics isn't everything.
I'm good friends with one of the few guys who still shoots a .30-338 mag. Jeff Graham he finished 2nd in the Leech a number of years ago to Michelle. He shoots 220's and 240's out of that thing. This past year he got a 338LM prone gun together and shot very well in a match at Atterbury shooting 300's coming out at around 2,650 yes with no break. However this is the exception of most shooters not the norm.
As for the OP this is generally where the calibers run
6mm- 3,200-3,300 fps (This is where Whidden's load is running)
6.5mm- 2,950-3,050 fps
7mm- 2,850-2,950 fps.
In these velocity ranges you won't be at a ballistic disadvantage to the next guy and comes down to the indian pulling the trigger.
Thomas won Wimbleton Cup with a 7mm RSAUM. I scored both him and Phil in the shoot off. What I remember about Thomas's string was it just took him awhile to get with the wind and then he started hammering X's. His load is still hammering 180's out there pretty hard. Think its in the 3,050fps range and that will shoot inside of anything. From what another friend in the Oak Ridge area said the AMU use to shoot their load there but found if they backed it down they got less fliers. However hasn't proven to be an issue for Thomas. The other thing before you start thinking that its all ballistics is earlier in the season Thomas went down to Blakely and took second in a regional there shooting a palma rifle to John Whidden beating all the AMU's any rifles. So just shows that ballistics isn't everything.
I'm good friends with one of the few guys who still shoots a .30-338 mag. Jeff Graham he finished 2nd in the Leech a number of years ago to Michelle. He shoots 220's and 240's out of that thing. This past year he got a 338LM prone gun together and shot very well in a match at Atterbury shooting 300's coming out at around 2,650 yes with no break. However this is the exception of most shooters not the norm.
As for the OP this is generally where the calibers run
6mm- 3,200-3,300 fps (This is where Whidden's load is running)
6.5mm- 2,950-3,050 fps
7mm- 2,850-2,950 fps.
In these velocity ranges you won't be at a ballistic disadvantage to the next guy and comes down to the indian pulling the trigger.
