Just wondering,
Just wondering,
Start CASTING or get off the POT!
Rem 788 .222Rem.
I give loading advice based on my actual results in factory rifles with standard chambers, twist rates and basic accurizing.
My goals for using cast boolits are lots of good, cheap, and reasonably accurate shooting, while avoiding overly tedious loading processes.
The BHN Deformation Formula, and why I don't use it.
How to find and fix sizing die eccentricity problems.
Do you trust your casting thermometer?
A few musings.
pre-64 Model 70 Featherweight in 30-06
I have a couple of Tikka 595's that are solid 3/8 MOA for five shot groups.
I have several Savage rifles that shoot consistent 1.5 inch groups at 200 yards.
My Tikka T3 22-250 and 25-06. They both will group under 1/2" if I do my part.
One of my nephews leaves his FN Police Rifle here and it is a solid 1/4" MOA rifle(.308)
h&r handi ultra in 223
Rem 700 VLS in 6mm
"Yes or no will almost always suffice as the answer"
Cooper 57M.
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Browning (Miroku) A-bolt .30-06 without BOSS and my 168gr handloads
Remember 700 in 223, action trued, lugs lapped, 28" 1:8 Krieger, Timney trigger. 1/2 MOA or less.
Believe it or not, my DPMS 24" LR-308 isn't far behind it.
I really ever had one super accurate factory rifle . It was a late 70's Rem 700 bdl varmit in 222 totally stock never messed with bedding or anything else 1/4" 5 rd groups were the norm with handloaded 50-52 gr flat base bullets . Have owned lots of rifles that would do under an inch at 100 but never had another like that triple Duce sold long ago in the foolishness of my youth
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!
I mirror your stupidity. I had the same gun and sold it as well about 30 years ago. It was a 1/2 MOA with any decent load.
My current most accurate is a M70 Coyote in .308. It will shoot 1/2 MOA with Sierra 165 GameKings.
BTW, I am amazed at how well current factory rifles will shoot.
Don Verna
I got a 788 in 223 that is an accurate shooter, and I agree the current factory rifles are all good.
Tikka T3 hunter, laminate and stainless, in 30-06. Working up loads is boring....anything you feed it is well sub-MOA. ALMOST not even fun......
"Do not follow where the path might lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson
CZ 527 Full Stock model in 223 Remington with the set trigger. More than once (on my good days) it has given me groups under half inch at 100 yards, using sandbags to steady my aim.
Hick: Iron sights!
Sako L46 in 222rem, still as issued and good for 5 in a 1/2 at 100 when my patience holds. A Rem 700 in 308 is right there but its now bedded into a 40x stock for position shooting.
“You don’t practice until you get it right. You practice until you can’t get it wrong.” Jason Elam, All-Pro kicker, Denver Broncos
Had an old savage 110 in 7mm magnum bought it for myself after my first deployment into harms way, got it used for $175! Sold it about 7 years later and I've never had another off the rack rifle that could shoot like that one it was heavy and had a very very pain piece of wood and a mid level Simmons scope on it and it would just shoot ,in a bean field in South Carolina one year a doe was sticking her head through a open gate to eat from the other side, where of course the grass was greener! Anyhow it was 198 yards to the gate the doe just on the other side, I had for tags so I lined up the shot and click,never had chambered a round after getting off the quad so I chambered a round,waited till her head came through the gate again and put the cross hairs on the ear facing me,dead bang straight through both ears! I literally could eat right up to the hole.
that rifle was so accurate i only played with 3 loads, 150 grain partition and 175 grain core lokt Wood chucks at 3 -400 yards feared the little 120 grain speers! Needing money to finish remodeling in time for my daughter to be born I sold that savage and a few other guns,we do what we have to for our kids!
FN SPR A5M in 308.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |