Browning BLR Accuracy??

[Cornbread]

I ordered a Zeiss Conquest 4 for it just after Christmas. Put it on yesterday. It's windy down here this time of year til maybe April. Will see how tge new scope shoots. DesertDog on youtube had a great video on the 4 best Scopes for $1,000. I already owned 4 Leupokd VX5s and one VX6, so I wanted to try something else. I also got a Meopta Optika6 2.5-15 for my BAR in .338 win Mag. I'd call it a Zeiss knockoff. I guess the used to make some Zeiss's but had various production problems. I'll let ya know how it does. That .338 should rattle its balls, lolol.

 

[EKYHunter]

I ordered a Zeiss Conquest 4 for it just after Christmas. Put it on yesterday. It's windy down here this time of year til maybe April. Will see how tge new scope shoots. DesertDog on youtube had a great video on the 4 best Scopes for $1,000. I already owned 4 Leupokd VX5s and one VX6, so I wanted to try something else. I also got a Meopta Optika6 2.5-15 for my BAR in .338 win Mag. I'd call it a Zeiss knockoff. I guess the used to make some Zeiss's but had various production problems. I'll let ya know how it does. That .338 should rattle its balls, lolol.

That’s a beautiful rifle. Congrats.

 

[brian flatlander]

I have a 270wsm shoots partitions very accurate deadly medicine in Black Hills

 

[howl]

Sweet rig. Your opinion of Meopta is likely to change.

 

[Cornbread]

I ordered a Zeiss Conquest 4 for it just after Christmas. Put it on yesterday. It's windy down here this time of year til maybe April. Will see how tge new scope shoots. DesertDog on youtube had a great video on the 4 best Scopes for $1,000. I already owned 4 Leupokd VX5s and one VX6, so I wanted to try something else. I also got a Meopta Optika6 2.5-15 for my BAR in .338 win Mag. I'd call it a Zeiss knockoff. I guess the used to make some Zeiss's but had various production problems. I'll let ya know how it does. That .338 should rattle its balls,

That’s a beautiful rifle. Congrats.

Thanks. I saw it on Gunbroker.com in the late Spring after buying a new blued BLR in .300 Win Mag. I really like the 7mm Rem Mag, and seeing this in the stainless really caught my eye. I had to pay up to get it, but figured that you only live once. I think I paid $1800 all in, but that included a Swarovski Z5 5-25 scope that was worth $1,000 ($1,500 new) that I could sell if I wanted to. I'm going to put that scope on a HBAR I have. It will be good for varmint hunting in Montana.

Guns are kinda like real estate. When ya see a prime piece of beach property come up for sale, ya don't try to negotiate and chisel the guy cause he already has others chomping at the bit to get it. Whoever speaks first is the loser! I firmly believe this and have seen it time and again. So, I always ask the buyer what is his bottom line. Ya don't piss the guy off by low-balling him. If ya don't like his price, you can walk away, and he isn't insulted by your offer and unwilling to discuss further. He hasn't shut you down. It works for me.

I took that Swarovski scope and put it on my Colt CAR-A3 HBAR to make it an awesome varmint rifle out to 300 yards. I gotta re-sight it in, however. I had an ATN-red dot on it to use it as a home defense rifle.

 

[Cornbread]

Sweet rig. Your opinion of Meopta is likely to change.

I hope so. I bought it.

 

[MS 9x56]

Best I got with the 358 win. is around an inch at 100yrds.

+1.

 

[cheeser]

I own 2 in .308 one 1976, other in 1993. The older 1976 is my standard everyday shooter a 1" group at 100 yds with factory loads with Winchester silvertips 165's, whitetail/bear is my main game. I would not be afraid to use for antelope/elk out to 350/400 yds. I have a 300 RUM for that.

 

[Bulldog12]

I know this is fairly old post but I have shot several from 22-250-284 Winchester-257 Roberts-308-358 Winchester. All of them would group at or under 1.5" with factory loads and down to .75" with the right handloads. The most accurate of them was the 358 Winchester with Hornady 200gr loads most 4 shot groups would be touching at 100yards. Wish I had them still I don't own a single one anymore.

 

[TheWolf]

Hey guys I own 4 BLRs all are the Shot Show specials and all shoot under 0.5" ... I'll attach a few pics... the first 3 pics is my 308....it shoots about 0.3" ..... the last 2 pics are my 300WSM and it's crazy accurate, it shoots 0.19MOA, all shoots are at 100m...

 

[MS 9x56]

Hey guys I own 4 BLRs all are the Shot Show specials and all shoot under 0.5" ... I'll attach a few pics... the first 3 pics is my 308....it shoots about 0.3" ..... the last 2 pics are my 300WSM and it's crazy accurate, it shoots 0.19MOA, all shoots are at 100m...

Who did your trigger work?

 

[TheWolf]

Who did your trigger work?

A local Gun Smith sorted the triggers out

 

[MS 9x56]

You should drop his name and contact info on the browning forum. Not many smiths will tackle a BLR trigger. I guess they are very touchy. When I bought mine you could literally hang the rifle from the trigger and it wouldn’t release. Measured 9lbs pull. Took it to Neal Jones in Erie Pa and he got it down to 3lbs. The man is a wizard. It now breaks like glass.

 

[TheWolf]

You should drop his name and contact info on the browning forum. Not many smiths will tackle a BLR trigger. I guess they are very touchy. When I bought mine you could literally hang the rifle from the trigger and it wouldn’t release. Measured 9lbs pull. Took it to Neal Jones in Erie Pa and he got it down to 3lbs. The man is a wizard. It now breaks like glass.

I'm in Australia...... the tiggers were done a long time ago, the rifles are the Shot Show specials, (2008-2009) the 300WSM i imported from Canada and the trigger is quite light and very little creep, the 223 is quite "Draggy" but ok, the 308 is great

 

[Sam Colt]

AJ at Blackjack Gunsmithing in Cedar Park, Texas is a maestro.

 

[SunshineCoaster]

I just bought 2 fairly new/new Browning BLR's. The new one is in .300 win mag, and the used one is a 2020 in 7mm Rem Mag. Anybody have experience with the accuracy of the BLR? I have plenty of factory ammo to try out in them with different brands and different bullet weights. I put a Leupold VX5 HD 3-15 on the new one and the used one came with a Swarovski 5-25 (not my choice for scope). I might sell the Swarovski and put on the same Leupold as I have on the .300 win mag. Would use both of these for elk. Any insight would be appreciated. Am not looking for accuracy of older BLR's.

I have a pre 81 in 308 with an old weaver 3-9x on it and I can ring the 12" plate at 200m offhand braced with a sling until my shoulder or wallet says stop.

I will agree the trigger on my x-Bolt is miles better but it's a lot of rifle to carry when I'm never going to take a shot over 200m here in the BC bush.

 

[MS 9x56]

My takedown in358 winchester will shoot 3/4”to 1 1/4” groups at a hundred yards consistently with handloads. About 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 with factory. I have a 2.5x5 Leopold mounted in low mounts on it. I would not hesitate to hunt elk or anything else with it out to 300 yards.

 

[borealStalker]

Hi there,
I bought a .308win TD Stainless baby recently and groupings are leaving something to be desired. I tried 7 different boxes of factory ammo:
150, 168, 178 and 180 grains at 100 yds. The best ones were
- Federal Power-Shok 308 Win 150Gr JSP
- Sako Gamehead 308 Win 180 Gr SP
-- these two delivered barely 1.25 MOA 3x shot groups. I installed Vortex Venom 1-6x24 on the receiver. It seems to fit and work well for me. I like the concept of this rifle. It is stainless, has an excellent safety system and only 20" each piece when taken down. I stalk hunting a lot. And I really want it to work better as much as possible. Because my Sauer s100 XT in 6.5 Creed delivers holes touching each other at 250 yds. It is to say that I'm a bit spoiled and disappointed in the same time with the BLR test shooting results.
Some people say that one of ways to improve groups for BLR is to remove the barrel band.
I.e. you can check this vid for reference

- but the guy in that vid says nothing if it helped to improve accuracy or not.
Yesterday I removed the forend, also done a very light sanding inside. I can see that the laminate forearm has some generous tolerances out of factory which remedied by adding some epoxy putty pads here and there. I've removed two little spots in the front of it, just trying to make it "floating barrel". Then added some plumbing putty right in front of the anchor point, as I imagine that the forend can be stressed in this area while not having those front putty pads touching the barrel - once again, I removed those two as already said above... Inserted couple of ~0.3mm flex plastic strips in between the forend bed and barrell to make sure the barrel doesn't touch the walls, then get it seated and assembled back. Tomorrow when the putty get cured I will pull the strips out which will leave the barrelt "floating" then tighten the bolt up to +1/4 ... 1/2 turn more.
The rifle is brand new. The trigger is around 4...4.5LB and is OK for me. My trigger discipline is not bad.
Ok, to put it short, please share your experience making BLR shooting better groups besides doing trigger work?
I'm kinda itchy to find time to go to the range this week.
Hopefully these my efforts won't be like wasted time.

 

[MS 9x56]

I have a takedown BLR in 358 winchester and can tell you I never got MOA with factory ammo of any type. Actually there is not a lot of factory loaded ammo in 358. I have 2 loads that I handload the will shoot MOA the 200 grain Corbon and 250 grain roundnose Speer will both shoot MOA though I am sorry but my loads won’t help you much with your 308. These rifles like what they like and in my experience handloading is the only way to get there.

 

[borealStalker]

Hi MS 9x56
I'm not sure if I can find time for hand loading. Thanks for your input though.