Federal Brass (yeah, yeah)
CCI 200 Primers
43.4 grains of Hodgdon Varget
Sierra 168 grain Match King Bullets
Over All Length of 2.815"
Shoots pretty well. As I posted in the first post, it shot a 10 shot group of 1" edge to edge, which translates to less than seven tenths of an inch center to center. Today was no exception. I shot my best "Palma" target today. Lets take a look at those targets shall we?
On the 13th of February:
On the 20th of February:
And finally today:
Of course, 37-5x is pretty good shooting out of a factory barreled, factory actioned, factory trigger weighted Remington 700 using handloads and an aluminum bedded stock. I'm sure with a bit better conditions, and a better rear bag, these groups would tighten up significantly due to shooter experience.
I also shot an 11 shot group today. One of the targets got one of it's "3-X" targets turned into an 11 shot group. Size? 1.052" edge to edge!
Not too bad if I don't say so myself! I'm sure you are all wondering why I'm choosing roughly 10 round groups for group sizing. Well, it is one thing to say I have a .308 3 shot group, which is not too bad, but is it really representative of the rifle's capabilities or is there an element of luck involved? Obviously a 5 shot group is the de facto standard for group sizing, but once again, are 5 shots really enough to get a fair estimate of the grouping capability of a rifle? Certainly better than 3 shots. Ten shots goes a long way to showing the capabilities of the rifle in the hands of a shooter as it gives you more data points. This is akin to only chronoing 3 shots in a load rather than 5. Can you really draw a safe average from the three velocities? I don't think so! Besides, it's far better feeling to take 10 shots and have them all be right around 1" edge to edge than it is to have 5 shots in 1" edge to edge because the chances of shooter error are greater. For the most part, I will be sticking to 10 round groupings and leaving the 5 and 3 round groups to others who chose to use that as their standard.
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