LR1955 Wrote:Kilco:
So you are saying that every single time you went to the range with that rifle and shot at 100 yards, it grouped exactly where it grouped the previous X number of times? Not that it held a bulls eye every time. But that it shot to the same zero every time and you have never had to touch the sights.
LR55
Yes, exactly the same spot. Given the round count with this rifle is relatively low, (below 500) but my handloads with the 143 ELD-X, 140 ELD-M, Berger 130 AR Hybrid and 140 VLD hunting POI are all within .5 moa. 120 TTSX was the furthest from said POI, at 1 moa to the lower left.
Ive never had results like this with any other rifle whatsoever.
My father has a 6.5-284 build on a stellar action by Clarence, and he has similar results.
I've only neck sized Lapua brass for it, and I've yet to have to trim the brass. It shrunk slightly on the first firing, and with 10 reloads on the same brass (neck sizing only) i have to seen any growth.
It sounds like horse s***, but every time I've taken this rifle out, at 100 yards with my pet load of H4350 under the 143 eld-x at 2800fps it is absolutely in the center of the target.
The rifle also wears a Nightforce SHV F1, so I'm very confident in the scopes repeatability as well.