04-23-2014, 06:25 PM
My buddy bought several Armalite's in .260 Rem, and beat his .260 Rem bolt gun at 1500yds for hit count over three 5-round strings, and the bolt gun is next to impossible to miss with. He's shooting the 142gr SMK at 2740fps using H4831SC, and he did some crazy load development with the rifle until it shot 1/3 MOA at 300yds for 5rds over and over again. He got all into cloud data and OCW with it, to where the targets looked like a shotgun blast, with data written next to every impact, then crunched the numbers to find accuracy nodes, and it really turned out for him.
I thought it looked to be not so promising in the start, and then I saw his 300yds groups and they were extremely tight. He's a big bolt gun guy, but wanted to get into gassers just to see what he could do. He spent the last year working up everything, and it all came together. He did a bunch of work on his bolt, removing all the edges, chamfering holes, polished the bolt face, etc.
I thought it looked to be not so promising in the start, and then I saw his 300yds groups and they were extremely tight. He's a big bolt gun guy, but wanted to get into gassers just to see what he could do. He spent the last year working up everything, and it all came together. He did a bunch of work on his bolt, removing all the edges, chamfering holes, polished the bolt face, etc.