I don't have the rifle any more, but I used to get a shade over 3,000 fps with the old Nosler Partition 160 grain pill. I could have gone higher, but it put 3 shots into 1 hole at 100 yards. With the 175 grain Nosler, I got great accuracy at 2900 fps. My favorite bullet for hunting Pronghorn with this rifle was the 150 grain Ballistic Tip at 3200 fps. I also used this bullet to shoot over 200 deer(whitetail and fallow does)for the restaurant trade on a game farm where I used to guide. All shots had to be head shots so there wouldn't be any lost meat on the carcass. I never lost an animal with this rifle. I took a wonderful Dall Sheep in the Yukon at over 500 paces with it...one shot.

Now, with that being said, a friend of mine had an identical Remington 700, only 65 digits away from my serial number, and he couldn't come close to the velocities I got, without his bolt starting to stick, or getting shiney marks on the brass.