Wanted to drop back in and show some results from this summer at 600yds. Several days this year it flirted with 1” groups but never quite got there. Still pleased as punch with more than 2200 rounds down the barrel. I am sad that Lapua has discontinued the 221 brass because I don’t know that results like this will be possible with reformed brass of lesser quality.
EDIT: I no longer shoot this gun with really hot loads like years ago. I've found no discernible performance advantage between H4198 at 17.6gn and Benchmark at 19.3gn (my preferred loads), both running ~3100fps and the ultra hot loads running 3200+ fps besides a few clicks of elevation. Raw accuracy and grouping has been the same and I have always had to be on my game reading the wind to achieve good results.
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