I�ve just bought a new rifle, a Remington 700 ADL SHORT in .308 WIN.
It�s in black satin finish with a plastic stock. Seems pretty cool.
I can�t wait to try it with the 150 gr Swift Sciroccos, but sadly I have to wait for my license to arrive.
Anybody who has any experience of this rifle or the Scirocco bullet?
Regrds M�ns

Monz.

I have a rifle like that. It's a few years old, but I am very satisfied with it. I don't have the plastic stock.
The only drawback in my opinion is that the safety only locks the trigger, not the firing pin, so bear that in mind when you are roaming those swedish woods.

Otherwise it's a handy rifle, works all the time, and it's quite accurate. I get tiny groups with Sierra HPBT 168 grs.

Good luck

Magnar

monz,

I haven't this rifle but a Parker-Hale. A beter choice could be a 168 BTHP from Lapua.

Don't hesitate to purchase lapua brass for this caliber. You can't find better choice.

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Hey
I bought a 308win ADL syntet last summer. It works but I don't like it. The stock is kind of weak a not very good.

The barrel is not free floting an there are two smal nots at the end of the stock under the barrel. I think they are supposed to hold the barrel up from the stock. Yesterday I took the stock of and there was a small speck of rust were the not touches the barrel. Be carefull and keep the barrel drie and oiled.

I think the barrel heats up to quick. After 5 shots it spreds so much you can't hit a 30cm target at a 100 meters. But this might just be my barrel.

I must say I like the looks of the rifle. It kind of looks pleasing to my eyes. Stange but true. And it had a very low price. I have a weaver 3-9x50 on steel mounts on it. It works wonderfull but I don't think the rifle is that good.

I wish I got a Tikka or Sako in the first place, in stainless steel. I don't think I have taken care of the rifle as I should. I think it will rust in the years to come.

I'm going to get more familiar with it this summer. Maybe the barrel settles after a bit of shooting. I have been thinking of a new stock or a bedding, but I don't have the money.

I use norwegian millitary ammo for most of my shooting. The first shoots don't group that bad. I have used 3 boxes of Norma Nosler 180grain in it, but I shanged to Odin blyspiss 180grain because of the price. I shoot a moose and a roedeer without any problem. But the rifle is a pain in the ass at the shooting range.

The safety also makes a lot "klick" if I'm not carefull with it. Not the best when hunting for roe bucks and red deer at the feelds.

Johan

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I started with one of these guns. It was a terrible rifle. It was just like yours and accurate enough but extremely unreliable. Scirroccos didnt work in my gun, which is identical to yours because of to short of a magazine. I had bad experiences but good luck.

I used to own one in .270 win and it was an accurate work rifle, I shot around 1500 rounds from this rifle before I traded on a new Ruger 30/06. You will like it, buy an after market stock from HS of Mc MIllan for it and you will have an excellent set up (I did not like the stock on my ADL either).

My brother has the synth stock on his Rem700.
It's OK during the few days of the hunt, but if you spend a lot of time at the range, you might want to buy a better stock.

Magnar

We performed an experiment a couple of years ago where we fired bullets into milk jugs to see how far they would travel. The sirrocco bullet was one of the worst (30 Cal, 150 Grain). It penetrated only 3 jugs and found in the forth. The partition and the failsafe performed the best at over 6 jugs each.
The swift bullet may be accurate, but I don't consider it a hunting bullet.