Originally Posted by
sharps4590
Not a problem MOA! Have, unfortunately, done the same thing myself more often than not.....:oops: I didn't doubt you. My rifle looks exactly like the one posted and I just didn't think mine weighed that much. Otherwise, I can guarantee I would never have weighed it. Kinda glad I did now.
Unique was the most accurate powder in mine and I think I was shooting 12 grs. under a 200 gr. bullet. Problem with mine was that load was about 6 inches low at 50 yards when using the flipped up sight. With mine the first shot from a cold, as clean as I can get it barrel, is always out of the rest of the group. Shooting 5 shot groups the last four would go under an inch at 50 yards, benched and bagged, with the total group a bit more than 2 inches when counting the first shot. Obviously if hunting the first one is the one that counts the most. Ain't sure how to remedy that situation. 'Course 2 inches at 50 yards is more than minute of deer.
With the same bullet over I think 20 or 21 grs. of SR-4759 and an open cell foam filler groups aren't quite as good as with Unique. That load does shoot to the sights at 50 yards using the flipped up rear sight. Yesterday I shot it at 100 yards and it was about 6 inches low with approximately a 3 inch group. At 50 yards it hovers around 2 inches. Other than adding a hunting style tang sight to the rifle I'm a bit perplexed as where to go from here.