The Dirty Thirty

[SEB-USA]

This is BCG 308 Winchester XP-100, using a Remington Take-Off 308 Winchester barrel chopped to 15.8" Holland's Radial Baffle Brake, Leupold Mark IV 4.5-15, McMillan stock, and a factory trigger.

Video Below: Factory TAP with 168 A-Max.
Reloads: 1x fired Hornady Match 308 Win brass, CCI primer, H-4895, 155 A-Max at 2720 fps.
Groups were at 100 yards.

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The last 3-shot group before we finished up was by Dan Ekstrom, with his MagnetoSpeed attached and the group size was close to mine. This XP-100 shoots great!
Next up is doing some drop confirmations at distance.
It will be used for my personal enjoyment and hunting, but will also be a loaner XP for WY-SHOT.
In the video, I am shooting some older TAP 168 ammunition, so we could set up the resize die properly.

 

[rwj]

Nice cloverleaf group!

 

[K22]

Very nice shooting. Looks like a lot of fun shooting this firearm.

 

[SEB-USA]

XP's are fun to shoot...At least for me they are.

 

[SEB-USA]

Sunday afternoon I went out with a couple of guys from church. One needed to do load development and chronographing and the other one wanted me to chronograph a couple of guns with my Labradar.
I wanted to do some drop confirmations with the Dirty Thirty/308 Winchester. We had winds from the northwest, which was a quartering headwind for us. I was shooting to the north. After the guys got all of their stuff done, Glenn spotted for me while I started doing some drop confirmations. The quartering headwind noticeably pushed my bullets down as I extended distances, but I still had fun.
Even at 300 yards it took me more elevation to hit my target, then it should've. By 400 yards I had a sense of how much I should add at 500 yards. At 500 yards my first shot at the 10 inch diamond target was close to a center hit.

The 5 inch square target to the right was hit by a guy shooting a 7mm SAUM rifle with 195 Berger's.
I did drop confirmations out to 800 yards, but with wind continuing to pick up, I stopped there. We shot Glenn's 41 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver, and had some fun. I decided I wanted to shoot one more shot with my 308 Winchester XP. I picked the upper right small dot on the big rectangular target at 500 yards.

It always feels good, when you just have a sense of what it should be and you are right, and the shot is very close to where you were aiming at a mid-range distance.
One of our second year shooters, is going to be using this in a couple of weeks for WY-SHOT.

 

[shoot4fun]

I would love to take in a day of WYSHOT but, as we already discussed, my WY trip will be in homeward mode when WYSHOT begins.
That XP in 308 looks great! So great, in fact, I just have to ask how it got the name "Dirty 30"?

 

[K9TXS]

Good update!

 

[SEB-USA]

I would love to take in a day of WYSHOT but, as we already discussed, my WY trip will be in homeward mode when WYSHOT begins.
That XP in 308 looks great! So great, in fact, I just have to ask how it got the name "Dirty 30"?

The action had been cut on to reduce weight for IHMSA, plus using a factory Remington take-off barrel - Dirty Thirty

 

[Old Navy]

Dell Taylor makes a lighter trigger for that if you think you need one.

 

[SEB-USA]

I have a number of Dell’s triggers

 

[Old Navy]

I have a number of Dell’s triggers

Shot IHMSA with him for five years.

 

[Mark W]

That XP in 308 looks great! So great, in fact, I just have to ask how it got the name "Dirty 30"?

Dirty 30 was always the nickname that I heard for the good old 30-30. I was kinda disappointed that it was a .308.

 

[PRR1957]

I have a number of Dell’s triggers

Last year I called Dell Taylor on a whim, and he and yada yada for over an hour. Must not had been a busy day for him. Nice guy.

Aside from Taylor XP midgrip triggers, there is, or was Dewey XP midgrip triggers. Also back in the late 1990s or early 2000s while thumbing through a new, at the time, Brownells catalogue and remember seeing a XP midgrip trigger they offered.

The XP100 used market has almost reached Unatanium level. Mite be all the hoarders. The IHMSA forum classified has one recently, but one is a custom in a Herrett rear grip stock for $900 or &1,300 with goodies, but no firing count listed. The rest is members searching for a XP stock or midgrip trigger. Occasionally I see a XP on a gun auction website, but the bidding is stupid crazy. It’s almost better to purchase a undesignated single shot botl action receiver from a custom manufacture and build it as a handgun. At least would a custom receiver a left hand bolt would be easier too use for right hand shooters. Left hand shooters the XP was a god send. The fly in ointment, at least to me, is most of those custom receivers cost over a $1,000 or north of that. Add $300 for a decent barrel, add a Taylor trigger if the receiver will hang a Remington triggers, and if the receiver recoil lug can hang the trigger lever, and try and get a stock from McMillan midgrip stock, plus what custom gunsmith would charge to build it. Now the final cost is well above $2,000-$2,500. Yeah. I hear the Benchrest, F-Class, PRS people laughing at my whining at these cost.

 

[PRR1957]

Shot IHMSA with him for five years.

I shot IHMSA originally back in 1980-81 in Texas while in the Army at Ft. Hood. Elgin Gates was officiating the matches. I originally used a Super Blackhawk with the factory 10.5” barrel. Purchased from my Army hunting buddy a 1978 Contender 14” 35 Rem. that I then used. My scores went way up with the T/C. From 1988-92 I got back into IHMSA at a gun club near me, until the club lost its lease on the land. Used a Contender 14” in 7T/CU which was extremely accurate after I tweaked the trigger to safe 6 oz release. Added a Ken Light front sight and his cantilever rear sight mount base with a T/C Ultimate Silhouette rear sight. In 1990 or 91 I purchased a new XP in 7BR which I tried at one match, but it was slow to operate compared to a Contender. The most accurate and effective bullet for me was the, at the time, the newly offered Nosler Ballistic Tip 7mm 140 gr.

Back too IHMSA. Man I loved nocking over those steel animal targets. Especially the 200 yards rams with hearing the bullet make a “WOP” with a clang of the steel mixed into the sound, followed by the ram falling down. The real fun was shooting a 40x40 and participating in the shoot off at the end of the match shooting the chicken targets at 200 yards which I won a few, and lost one shoot off because the other guy brought more ammo than me.

 

[SEB-USA]

Dirty 30 was always the nickname that I heard for the good old 30-30. I was kinda disappointed that it was a .308.

You are the second person that has mentioned that. I had never heard that before though, until recently.

 

[Bocephus]

This is BCG 308 Winchester XP-100, using a Remington Take-Off 308 Winchester barrel chopped to 15.8" Holland's Radial Baffle Brake, Leupold Mark IV 4.5-15, McMillan stock, and a factory trigger.

Video Below: Factory TAP with 168 A-Max.
Reloads: 1x fired Hornady Match 308 Win brass, CCI primer, H-4895, 155 A-Max at 2720 fps.
Groups were at 100 yards.

ing

The last 3-shot group before we finished up was by Dan Ekstrom, with his MagnetoSpeed attached and the group size was close to mine. This XP-100 shoots great!
Next up is doing some drop confirmations at distance.
It will be used for my personal enjoyment and hunting, but will also be a loaner XP for WY-SHOT.
In the video, I am shooting some older TAP 168 ammunition, so we could set up the resize die properly.

Well, however this happened someone, somewhere done several things "really right!"

 

[SEB-USA]

It is a systems approach for sure, with myself being the biggest problem.
I am very pleased for the accuracy, with a take-off Remmy barrel.

 

[Old Navy]

I shot IHMSA originally back in 1980-81 in Texas while in the Army at Ft. Hood. Elgin Gates was officiating the matches. I originally used a Super Blackhawk with the factory 10.5” barrel. Purchased from my Army hunting buddy a 1978 Contender 14” 35 Rem. that I then used. My scores went way up with the T/C. From 1988-92 I got back into IHMSA at a gun club near me, until the club lost its lease on the land. Used a Contender 14” in 7T/CU which was extremely accurate after I tweaked the trigger to safe 6 oz release. Added a Ken Light front sight and his cantilever rear sight mount base with a T/C Ultimate Silhouette rear sight. In 1990 or 91 I purchased a new XP in 7BR which I tried at one match, but it was slow to operate compared to a Contender. The most accurate and effective bullet for me was the, at the time, the newly offered Nosler Ballistic Tip 7mm 140 gr.

Back too IHMSA. Man I loved nocking over those steel animal targets. Especially the 200 yards rams with hearing the bullet make a “WOP” with a clang of the steel mixed into the sound, followed by the ram falling down. The real fun was shooting a 40x40 and participating in the shoot off at the end of the match shooting the chicken targets at 200 yards which I won a few, and lost one shoot off because the other guy brought more ammo than me.

Half scale chickens around 2000.

 

[PRR1957]

You are the second person that has mentioned that. I had never heard that before though, until recently.

There is a misconception that the 30-30 Winchester cartridge was originally loaded with black powder, which it was originally one of the first cartridges to be factory loaded with smokeless gunpowder. I’m sure in the early days of the 30-30, some hunters mite had tried reloading their 30-30 cartridges with black powder.

If anything, “Dirty 30” has a rhyme and ring to it.