jimb16
06-04-2013, 06:51 PM
I took my Rem 700 BDL to the range today for a fun shoot. I had a bunch of rounds that I was figuring on just blasting with. The boolits were undersized, so I wasn't expecting any accuracy to speak of.....WOW! The rifle is a .222 Rem. with a bull barrel. The rounds were mixed brass with a .225415CP boolit cast moderately hard and water quenched. Powder was Red Dot with a tuft of Dacron filler to hold the light charge in place. I don't even remember what the charge was since I was just shooting up some leftover undersized boolits. At 50 yards, I had a 20 round group well under an inch! The first shot was a fouling shot which was outside the group by just over 1/2 inch. I was blasting 1 inch chunks of clay birds on the backstop at a distance of 110 yards hitting them nearly every shot! I expect that kind of accuracy out of this rifle with j-words (typical 1/2 inch groups at 100 yards), but I never expected to get the same with those tiny little cast pills. I would have been happy with 2 inch groups. Now my real question is, did I just experience a serendipitous event or should I try to improve on it!