herkyguy
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First crack at 30-06 today at the range. I shoot a Winchester model 70 extreme weather SS with a Zeiss Conquest on top. I was shooting with the forend resting on a bag and the target at 100 yards. That replicates my ground blind setup accurately with respect to rifle support and range.
I am shooting hornady 150 grain SP sitting on top of 51 grains of IMR4007 SSC. My chrono showed an average of 2600 fps with about a 40 fps spread. I also shot some 150 grain Core-lokt and 165 grain fusion. Both the core-lokt and fusion had larger spreads on velocity and hovered around 2800 to 2900 fps. Accuracy was not as good as my reloads.
I am not too concerned about the lower velocity as I feel it's adequate for NC deer, but my accuracy is less than desired.
The lower three were my first group and the top three, all hovering around around the red center were after a 1 MOA adjustment up.
It's plenty good to drop a deer. I've taken quite a few with this rifle. My question is in which direction would you recommend going to improve accuracy? Higher velocity, lower velocity, higher/lower bullet weight, or different powder altogether??
To be fair, I picked up the rifle used and it had never been a tack driver, but I'd like to one day take it on a longer range hunt and find a suitable load for 200-300 yard shots.
Lastly, I have 400 150 grain SP hornady bullets from the get loaded rebate, so I'm a big partial....
Your input is appreciated.
I am shooting hornady 150 grain SP sitting on top of 51 grains of IMR4007 SSC. My chrono showed an average of 2600 fps with about a 40 fps spread. I also shot some 150 grain Core-lokt and 165 grain fusion. Both the core-lokt and fusion had larger spreads on velocity and hovered around 2800 to 2900 fps. Accuracy was not as good as my reloads.
I am not too concerned about the lower velocity as I feel it's adequate for NC deer, but my accuracy is less than desired.
The lower three were my first group and the top three, all hovering around around the red center were after a 1 MOA adjustment up.
It's plenty good to drop a deer. I've taken quite a few with this rifle. My question is in which direction would you recommend going to improve accuracy? Higher velocity, lower velocity, higher/lower bullet weight, or different powder altogether??
To be fair, I picked up the rifle used and it had never been a tack driver, but I'd like to one day take it on a longer range hunt and find a suitable load for 200-300 yard shots.
Lastly, I have 400 150 grain SP hornady bullets from the get loaded rebate, so I'm a big partial....
Your input is appreciated.