The Grendel rabbit hole (accurate barrel)

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Try some Federal 120 AE (if you can) before giving up on the Odin barrel. My LaRue doesn't like any of the factory Hornady stuff, something about it gives it a bad range 'tude. The black - I get 1.25-1.5 out of normally. If I am really stable, feeling great, and there is absolutely nothing to distract me or cause the bench to move, I can get .9-1.1 inch groups with Black. SST is 2 inch stuff, not worth pursuing. The Fed 120 SMK loads though, they easily run 1/2 moa. All performance observed from bench or prone, all groups for size were at least 5 rounds.

For some reason, the Hornady offerings seem to have dropped off lately as far as accuracy from reports here. The Black was consistently reported sub MOA, and the SST the same way. They are more hit and miss of late, especially the SST loads.

Also, if you reload, if I recall correctly LR55 has said that to really test a barrel, get some 120 Matchkings and load up 27.4 gr of Benchmark or 8208HMR. If you can't find a load that's pretty darned good somewhere close to those two charge weights, then something is going on with the barrel. 27.2/120SMK/Rem7.5/Hornady cases makes (2356fps, 8sd, 10es, 5 shots) bugholes for me.

LR55, correct me if I'm mis-remembering that, please - for some reason I can't find the post(s).