07-16-2018, 02:33 AM
Well, I'm now one of THOSE people. Spent several hours driving around the NFS roads yesterday afternoon and finally found an area to shoot. Not easy to do - off the road parking, backstop, no streams / trails / dirt roads, and the hardest part - a relatively flat shooting area without 2' tall grass or wildflowers. Luckily, the people who decided to pitch a tent 25 yards from the shooting spot weren't there. Or they were too scared to come out of their tent.
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So I got some quality time with my girl to break her barrel in. And she likes it. Random light load - 105 gr RDF seated pretty deep and 26.5 gr of N140. Functioned flawlessly from round 1 through the 50 I made with the setting the JP AGB had been on with the old 6.5 barrel. I think I'm going to be as happy with this barrel as with my other BHWs. This was the final 16 shots done semi rapid fire prone with my Atlas. Slightly uphill, uneven ground, a little bit of grass between the scope and target.
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I stopped loading the bipod somewhere along the way and then realised it near the end - definitely responsible for some of the vertical dispersion. Measures under 1.5 MOA for all 16 and 0.8" on the horizontal.
The four 15 round ASC mags I have that simply didn't work at all with 6.5 G functioned flawlessly with the 6mm. What a difference a 1/2 mm makes. You'd think someone at ASC would figure that out! Got a can of air cure Duracoat FDE showing up in the next few days so the four 15s and four ASC 10s will get a coat so I don't mix them up with my CPD mags that do actually work with 6.5
Recoil was more than manageable with just a thread protector - target never left sight picture at 12x. She should be nice and soft when I get an Epsilon 6.5 on and tune the gas - and I might even treat her to an SCS.
Load development with 95 gr SMKs and it's 0.232 G7 is next up. BHW estimates low to mid 2800s out of an 18 but I'll be more than happy in the low to mid 2700s. Would give her 20% less drop and 10% less drift at 1k than when I was feeding her a warm load of 120 gr Scenar L's at 2520.
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So I got some quality time with my girl to break her barrel in. And she likes it. Random light load - 105 gr RDF seated pretty deep and 26.5 gr of N140. Functioned flawlessly from round 1 through the 50 I made with the setting the JP AGB had been on with the old 6.5 barrel. I think I'm going to be as happy with this barrel as with my other BHWs. This was the final 16 shots done semi rapid fire prone with my Atlas. Slightly uphill, uneven ground, a little bit of grass between the scope and target.
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I stopped loading the bipod somewhere along the way and then realised it near the end - definitely responsible for some of the vertical dispersion. Measures under 1.5 MOA for all 16 and 0.8" on the horizontal.
The four 15 round ASC mags I have that simply didn't work at all with 6.5 G functioned flawlessly with the 6mm. What a difference a 1/2 mm makes. You'd think someone at ASC would figure that out! Got a can of air cure Duracoat FDE showing up in the next few days so the four 15s and four ASC 10s will get a coat so I don't mix them up with my CPD mags that do actually work with 6.5
Recoil was more than manageable with just a thread protector - target never left sight picture at 12x. She should be nice and soft when I get an Epsilon 6.5 on and tune the gas - and I might even treat her to an SCS.
Load development with 95 gr SMKs and it's 0.232 G7 is next up. BHW estimates low to mid 2800s out of an 18 but I'll be more than happy in the low to mid 2700s. Would give her 20% less drop and 10% less drift at 1k than when I was feeding her a warm load of 120 gr Scenar L's at 2520.
Let's go Brandon!