Is the shooter the problem?

[Guest]

One other thing to remember is that this is a Featherweight, and that means it has a skinny little barrel. That's going to have more 'whip' than a heavier barrel (a sporter or varmint contour). It might be accurate, but probably not like other guns.

 

[Scott Spencer]

A quick update fellas.....It looks like I've found a couple of loads. The RL22 60 gr with 180 gr AB is getting me 1.25" and H4831 60.3 gr is getting me 1.75" with the 180 gr NP. These are the most consistent and tightest groups I can get at 100 yds. I do realize that I don't have a tack driver but I was hoping to get to 1" groups at 100 yds. Maybe my rifle just isn't meant to shoot them.

A quick question about copper fouling. No matter how clean I get my rifle I am getting pretty heavy copper fouling after about 8-9 shots. After just these few rds my accuracy goes to pot and I get flyers everywhere.. The copper build up is primarily is the rifling. I've used Butch's BS, Montana Extreme, and Sweets 7.62. Getting all of the copper out is not the problem. It just seems to be building up too quickly or am I wrong?

I've got at least 500 rounds through my rifle now. I don't have a borescope so I was wondering if there might be just some really bad machining marks/burs still in the barrel and that might be the cause of some inconsistent shooting?

Thanks to all of you for the previous help and suggestions.

 

[flashhole]

I recently did some experimenting with my Ruger #1V 25-06. I loaded 10 rounds each of the same bullet to the same seating depth with 4 different powders. I wanted to see how much of a difference in accuracy I would get jsut by using different powders. The groups ranged from 5" to one ragged hole. Retumbo was the best powder. In this case I was shooting Sierra 117 grain flat base spire point bullets. I did the same thing with the Sierra 117 grain boat-tail spire points and not a single powder grouped well. Same test with a Nosler 100 grain Ballistic Tip and 3 of the 4 powders did well with Retumbo being the best.

I did the same thing with my 221 Fireball and my 223 Remington. The results were equally as telling. I guess my point is....don't give up.

The rest I use is the Browing version of Uncle Bud's Bulls Bag (my wife ran over my original Bulls Bag with a lawn mower). I like this a lot becuase it's heavy and the butterfly wings grab the gun along the length of the forearm and all but eliminates muzzle jump. It also lets the shooter absorb the free recoil. I think this recoil control combination is hard to beat when shooting for accuracy. Here it is with my #1.