05-16-2017, 10:09 PM
Finally got some kinks worked out with her and stopped chasing velocity so I finally have some targets to share.
Went and revisited some loads that had previously had some promise but that I thought didn't have enough juice back when my old chrono had died. I was wrong. 2447 fps is certainly something anyone could live out of an 18" with a 123 Scenar and its .264 G7.
Now my only problem is that I need to fix the choke job I do on the fourth shot EVERY time I get a good 3 shot group. It's not just with this rifle - it's with almost anything. The 5th shot then goes back with the other 3. With whatever rifle I'm shooting.
With this one here, I pulled the SSA-E on my 4th shot as hard as I was pulling on my 4.5 lb single stage on my 458 Socom this morning. WTF?
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Here the wind picked up just as I was releasing #4. I think I thought about holding off as I released but everything felt okay.... Then #5 turned the clover leaf into an amorphous blob....
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Thing is, if I can't see the group, shot #4 is just fine. This is with a no magnification 2 MOA red dot at 50 yards. A 2 MOA red dot just covers this inch wide 1/2" group at 50 yards. The backstop was in the shade, the shots were in the gray, I could have been happy with the charge that preceded it and I had no idea how well they were grouping...
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All load development should be so easy. This was part of the first ladder I did with it and I was really hoping to get H110 to work since it's what I use for 44 mag and 300 BLK. Load is also comfortably off max - is another 50fps really going to matter with 325 grains traveling over 1700 fps......? (Sorry to go off Grendel track but it was a good morning
)
Went and revisited some loads that had previously had some promise but that I thought didn't have enough juice back when my old chrono had died. I was wrong. 2447 fps is certainly something anyone could live out of an 18" with a 123 Scenar and its .264 G7.
Now my only problem is that I need to fix the choke job I do on the fourth shot EVERY time I get a good 3 shot group. It's not just with this rifle - it's with almost anything. The 5th shot then goes back with the other 3. With whatever rifle I'm shooting.
With this one here, I pulled the SSA-E on my 4th shot as hard as I was pulling on my 4.5 lb single stage on my 458 Socom this morning. WTF?
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Here the wind picked up just as I was releasing #4. I think I thought about holding off as I released but everything felt okay.... Then #5 turned the clover leaf into an amorphous blob....
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Thing is, if I can't see the group, shot #4 is just fine. This is with a no magnification 2 MOA red dot at 50 yards. A 2 MOA red dot just covers this inch wide 1/2" group at 50 yards. The backstop was in the shade, the shots were in the gray, I could have been happy with the charge that preceded it and I had no idea how well they were grouping...
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All load development should be so easy. This was part of the first ladder I did with it and I was really hoping to get H110 to work since it's what I use for 44 mag and 300 BLK. Load is also comfortably off max - is another 50fps really going to matter with 325 grains traveling over 1700 fps......? (Sorry to go off Grendel track but it was a good morning
)