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F-TR obssessed shooting junkie
I'm playing with my 600 yd F-TR rifle. I've gotten this rifle to shoot pretty much anything I've put in it really well.
The rifle is built on a Savage F-class, I reshapped the stock to fit my needs as a TR rifle and rebarreled it into a 223.
Barrel is a 28: 1:7 McGowan prefit with a Wylde chamber, I throated it with a 1* throater to seat the 80Amax with the bearing surface above the junction.
I've fired this rifle with Nostler 80s seated for my White Oak upper jumping them something huge. I use these just to warm the barrel and get a zero when I go to do work at 300 yards, typically they print about .5.
I've fired it with 80Amax running 2800 over Varget, shots .3 or better
Ive fired it with 80Amax running 2900+ over N550 shot .3 or better
I've fired OCW ladders with 90VLDs over Varget and N550, (MVs ranged from mid 2700s with the lowest Varget load to high 2800s with N550) I've tried seating -0.010 and jam +0.010 and I've never seen any rifle scatter bullets so badly. We're talking about 3MOA scatter, by the time I shoot 30 rounds of OCW shots with Varget and N550 it looks like my buddy patterned his turkey gun . Shooting multiple "groups" at 300 yards on the same sheet of white roll paper with pasters as aiming points it got to the point that I couldn't identify which shots went on which dots. Then just to prove that I'm not losing my mind a grabbed 3 Amax's and put up a 1" group on the corner of the page (300 yards).
The VLDs are seated up with an OAL of 2.6+. I haven't started testing with jumps of 20 or 40 yet but I'll take suggestions. It's not the scope, gun or operator, at least the other loads I've tried say it's not.
Any suggestions other than seating depth tests?
The rifle is built on a Savage F-class, I reshapped the stock to fit my needs as a TR rifle and rebarreled it into a 223.
Barrel is a 28: 1:7 McGowan prefit with a Wylde chamber, I throated it with a 1* throater to seat the 80Amax with the bearing surface above the junction.
I've fired this rifle with Nostler 80s seated for my White Oak upper jumping them something huge. I use these just to warm the barrel and get a zero when I go to do work at 300 yards, typically they print about .5.
I've fired it with 80Amax running 2800 over Varget, shots .3 or better
Ive fired it with 80Amax running 2900+ over N550 shot .3 or better
I've fired OCW ladders with 90VLDs over Varget and N550, (MVs ranged from mid 2700s with the lowest Varget load to high 2800s with N550) I've tried seating -0.010 and jam +0.010 and I've never seen any rifle scatter bullets so badly. We're talking about 3MOA scatter, by the time I shoot 30 rounds of OCW shots with Varget and N550 it looks like my buddy patterned his turkey gun . Shooting multiple "groups" at 300 yards on the same sheet of white roll paper with pasters as aiming points it got to the point that I couldn't identify which shots went on which dots. Then just to prove that I'm not losing my mind a grabbed 3 Amax's and put up a 1" group on the corner of the page (300 yards).
The VLDs are seated up with an OAL of 2.6+. I haven't started testing with jumps of 20 or 40 yet but I'll take suggestions. It's not the scope, gun or operator, at least the other loads I've tried say it's not.
Any suggestions other than seating depth tests?