I know, I said I was done. :)
Larry Gibson made a comment somewhere about fast and slow powders. I started thinking, which usually costs me a lot of time or money :) I am shooting the 210gn bullet a lot. I have been concentrating on faster powders recently (4198 and 3031) rather than the Varget I started out with. I stopped using Varget in cast cause it was hard to come by even before COVID. But, I have quite a bit of IMR4166, which is kind of an 'improved' Varget (hype, I know). So, I tried it and found out it works pretty good. Got a load worked up and at 31.0gn it gives me 1960fps, about 20-30fps es and 8-12fps sd (with enlarged flash holes).
This was my target set from yesterday. 200yd, no wind (so no excuses :) ). Top two were first 10 rounds in clean barrel. Then I fired a bunch at a 4" gong and soda cans on the 300yd line. 'Killed' 12 cans. Bottom two targets are the last ten rounds (shots #35-45). Not too bad. Also confirms again that the barrel needs to be fouled and warm.
Previous session I was at the 1000yd range. At 500yd I could hit the 5" gong about every other shot. Put 5 on paper and got a 7" group.
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PS sight settings were different on the bottom targets.