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- Dec 26, 2007
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Nice rifle and great cartridge. That should bring home some game and be a lot of fun shooting it.
It only took one more year, but.......
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Ammo Smith
- Nov 6, 2009
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Pretty rifle with nice craftsmanship and execution. Good job!!
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taylorce1
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- Jun 3, 2007
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Well one week to go and I’ll be a married man. Anyway had to go blow off some steam so I went to the range yesterday. I wanted to shoot my .25-06 and run it through the paces a bit, I took as well my .300 Savage M93, 6X47 Stevens 200, and .223 Rem Stevens 200. I was going to shoot my .300 and .25-06 for load development and have my other two Stevens to shoot between groups.
I used the Lyman's Data (My Nosler book doesn't show Accubonds) for the 110 grain Nosler AccuBond data, and the Sierra for the 117 grain Sierra PH and 120 grain GK. The Lyman book had nearly 7 grain spread on H4831 so I went up in one grain increments until I reached a max load of 54 grains. The Sierra book showed identical loads with both bullets but showed an 8 grain spread maxing out at 50.5 grains, and I used a two grain increment on both loads with RL 22. I figured I’d find a couple of loads that showed promise and then I’d fine tune the load from there, shooting 5 shot groups the next range session.
I was able to find two loads with the Nosler AccuBond that showed promise:
Plus two more with the 117 grain Sierra Pro Hunter:
The 120 grain Sierra Game King just didn’t come through with RL 22. Never had a group go under 1” nor did they go over 1.5”. Any other rifle and I might have been happy with those groups, but not with this one. I’ll try a new powder next time thinking RL 19, IMR 7828, and H4831 might be good choices next time for the 120 grain bullets.
I used the Lyman's Data (My Nosler book doesn't show Accubonds) for the 110 grain Nosler AccuBond data, and the Sierra for the 117 grain Sierra PH and 120 grain GK. The Lyman book had nearly 7 grain spread on H4831 so I went up in one grain increments until I reached a max load of 54 grains. The Sierra book showed identical loads with both bullets but showed an 8 grain spread maxing out at 50.5 grains, and I used a two grain increment on both loads with RL 22. I figured I’d find a couple of loads that showed promise and then I’d fine tune the load from there, shooting 5 shot groups the next range session.
I was able to find two loads with the Nosler AccuBond that showed promise:
Plus two more with the 117 grain Sierra Pro Hunter:
The 120 grain Sierra Game King just didn’t come through with RL 22. Never had a group go under 1” nor did they go over 1.5”. Any other rifle and I might have been happy with those groups, but not with this one. I’ll try a new powder next time thinking RL 19, IMR 7828, and H4831 might be good choices next time for the 120 grain bullets.
- Oct 30, 2004
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I like it.
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