Originally Posted By: GCHere is my old steel frame short action .308 BLR 81'. With the little Leupold 2x7 onboard it is a slim, light and easy handling mixed cover rifle. I've never had trouble finding a load that will group four shots (the magazine capacity) into or hovering right at an inch at one hundred yards. I practice out to three hundred yards with it, though most of my shots are in the timber at considerably closer ranges. Pure poison on Ozark timber whitetails.
Swap the scope with a Zeiss Terra 2-7 and mine is a dead copy.....shoots the same accuracy wise as well.
If you reload start low, the chamber on my BLR is very tight a starting load of CFE 223 from the manual was barely flattening primers. At least on the older BLRs like my steel framed 81 they are known for tighter than normal chambers....not a problem but something to be aware of when you reload for them.
