300 win mag accuracy in Parker Hale 1200

[TheBroke1]

Hello All, looking for advice and comments on a new rifle I purchase recently. I ran across a collection of Parker Hale Rifles and there was a new unfired 300 win mag that was bought in 1970 and still in packaging. I picked it up for a song. I put a Shepherd P-1 3.5-15 on it and grabbed a box of Federal Premium to try it out. After sighting this gun in we stepped it out to 800yds and it held .75moa - at this distance running two five shot strings. I cannot afford to run theses factory loads and I am looking for some load data to try some Seirra 190gr match kings. The factory ammo was a 180gr bonded that shot so well. Guys with this gun and there load I know it will shoot and threw the years I've n been behind 5 different Parker Hale rifles and have yet to see one that will not hold under 3/4moa. I haven't found much out there on these guns and loads, but I would like to step out and beyond 1000meters I believe the gun is more than capable and need some input on getting there with reloads and data to do so. I look forward to any and all advice on these things and what you maybe experiencing in your Parker Hale Rifles. As for my optics I have been running the Shepherd Scope for years and this scope will put game down with first round vital hits out to 800yds on both rifles I run them on. I am looking to go to the next step though but no game has presented itself as of yet for me to step out there and I don't have a range to test the scopes 1000 meter objective. Please jump in and share I know I am not alone in these questions or the rifle.
Thanks And God Bless
TheBroke1

 

[dooley]

Hi, Re parker hale, this company had been making sporting and target rifles based on the mauser 98 action in the UK from the fifties until the end of the nineties when they lost the contract to supply the british MOD sniper rifles, all the spares for this rifle can be bought from "Norman Clarke Gunsmiths" in the UK, I had a parker hale 308 target version, it was sold cheaply to me as needing a new barrel as the twist was 1-14 and he had put 4000 rounds through it however in the 8 years that I owned it I never replaced the barrel it shot so well despite a round count in excess of 8000 rounds, I now have a 284, 260, and 6.5x47, all with 30 inch barrels, but I have never been able to repeat the scores I made with that old parker hale, I used to use 155gr lapua scenar bullets, I loved that old rifle. Regards, dooley

 

[CJ6]

Is the receiver marked Jana/Parker Hale ?