My Favorite Rifle

[Rmitch223]

This is my favorite rifle, mainly because It is the most accurate Ive ever owned and to me a accurate bolt gun is more fun to shoot at long range than any semi.

Its a Remington 700 SPS Varmint. Chambered in .243 Win.
HS Precision Stock
Vortex Viper PST 6-24x50 FFP
TPS 20moa rail & TPS 30MM super low rings.
Most Accurate Load to date: 105gn Hornady Amax, 40gn of IMR-4350, Federal 210M Primer & Lapua Brass.

Here are a few 100yrd group.

This one is a five shot group I shot at 100yrds yesterday, the two impacts in the upper right were sighters.

3 shot 100yrd group.

The addition of this scope has greatly helped shrink my group sizes.

I'm thinking about working up a different load for this bullet. Dan Newberry recommended I go with 48.1 grains of Retumbo with a CCI250 magnum primer. He said it would out shoot my current load for sure. If I can find some Retumbo I will probably give this load a shot.

I shot some 300 yrd groups yesterday but with a 22mph cross wind they didn't turn out to great mostly about 2" - 2.5" 3 shot groups.

 

[DrMike]

Sweet. You just gotta' love an accurate rifle.

 

[FOTIS]

Nothing is funner!

 

[Hegland]

Nice!

 

[gerry]

Got to love a great Remington that one looks to be a keeper. Great for varmints to deer sized game, got to love that.

 

[JD338]

That one is a shooter for sure.
Your 300 yard groups are still under MOA in the wind. Says a lot about the rifle and the shooter.

JD338

 

[EOD Diver]

Dang, that 700 of yours is no joke! Congrats on a great rifle! That'd make for one sweet coyote rig!

Joe

 

[Rmitch223]

 

[Woodycreek]

I have the same rifle and its a shooter. It does great with the 105 Amax and Retumbo. Always did well with the 70 BTs/ Varget.

 

[Rmitch223]

I have the same rifle and its a shooter. It does great with the 105 Amax and Retumbo. Always did well with the 70 BTs/ Varget.

Can you list your Retumbo load here please?

What charge weight did you start your workup and what charge weight was the most accurate?
Are you using magnum primers with this load?

 

[Woodycreek]

My loads are for the 243 AI. I had the rifle AIed and never tried the 105 Amax 243 Win loads. The 243 AI load is 51.5gr of Retumbo with the 105 Amax and Fed 210M primer. You should find something around 47-49gr with Retumbo.

 

[Elkman]

Its beautiful, of course a dark stock and clean lines always appeal to me. Great shooting !!