Wreck-n-Crew
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We all have those good days and bad ones. Today was a good day!
I have been in the process of working up my first 270 win loads for my model 70 Shadow. What i never dreamed of was such small group with reduced loads! 1.25" group! Fluke? Cant say for sure but the loads with 46gr of 4064 were just as good and i shot a 9 shot group at 1.4" save 1. And 6 of those where sub MOA! Tearing a .9" group into a single hole.
Heres the reduced loads using 13.5 gr Unique with a 110gr ( yes light for caliber) Hornady V-max PTBT. Set .020" off the lands @ 100 yds using Remington brass, neck sized only, and a Winchester LPP. 1.25"
Heres the 4064 loads 46gr with the same 110gr Hornady V-Max PTBT set .020" from the lands as well using remington bras and winchester LPP@ 100yds measuring the 7 in one hole at .9"
To be honest I'm not very experienced shooting from the bench. The gun , scope, and round did all the work with the help of some cheap Wal-Mart bags.
But to say it came natural from hunting and plinking as a kid to adulthood...well maybe so?
Here are two factory groups.
One is some 150gr Remington Core lokt SP 10 rnds... Adjusted scope after 2 rnds ( first time with scope....only bore sighted) on right...
The 8 shots following adjustment were 2.5" group. You see. More pics coming
I also had a 3.5" group with the federal 150gr SP. Pics coming.
The final 20 shots were the hand loads. 5 of them never hit paper as my POI changed with those loads and they where 13gr Unique loaded the same OAL and same V-Max bullet.
Scope was a cheap knock off with light-up cross hairs that is supposedly 6-24x50. But it is more like a 4-18x50 with the parallax set to 100. Pics coming.
Exited as i am i am drifting more than i should....my apologies that this post is not organized well. [emoji5]
Anyway i plan to accomplish two things with this rifle and one is plinking and the other is hunting trips in TN and GA ( maybe? ). That's the reason for the 2 different loads. I'm hoping( and seemed to have accomplished it to some degree) to get good enough accuracy with my loads.
What i failed at was producing a load with a heavy enough bullet for hunting! Now i have to ask the dreaded questions...sorry.
Should i keep the 110gr for my reduced plinking loads or work up a new one using whatever bullet i choose in 130-150 gr for hunting?
Has anyone else had good accuracy with reduced loads using Unique?
I guess its not that big a deal to have two totally different loads including bullets is it?
No chronograph results on the hand loads because it was getting too many errors because i forgot to bring my diffusers and the beam overhead cast a shadow on one half of it by the time i started shooting them.
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I have been in the process of working up my first 270 win loads for my model 70 Shadow. What i never dreamed of was such small group with reduced loads! 1.25" group! Fluke? Cant say for sure but the loads with 46gr of 4064 were just as good and i shot a 9 shot group at 1.4" save 1. And 6 of those where sub MOA! Tearing a .9" group into a single hole.
Heres the reduced loads using 13.5 gr Unique with a 110gr ( yes light for caliber) Hornady V-max PTBT. Set .020" off the lands @ 100 yds using Remington brass, neck sized only, and a Winchester LPP. 1.25"
Heres the 4064 loads 46gr with the same 110gr Hornady V-Max PTBT set .020" from the lands as well using remington bras and winchester LPP@ 100yds measuring the 7 in one hole at .9"
To be honest I'm not very experienced shooting from the bench. The gun , scope, and round did all the work with the help of some cheap Wal-Mart bags.
But to say it came natural from hunting and plinking as a kid to adulthood...well maybe so?
Here are two factory groups.
One is some 150gr Remington Core lokt SP 10 rnds... Adjusted scope after 2 rnds ( first time with scope....only bore sighted) on right...
The 8 shots following adjustment were 2.5" group. You see. More pics coming
I also had a 3.5" group with the federal 150gr SP. Pics coming.
The final 20 shots were the hand loads. 5 of them never hit paper as my POI changed with those loads and they where 13gr Unique loaded the same OAL and same V-Max bullet.
Scope was a cheap knock off with light-up cross hairs that is supposedly 6-24x50. But it is more like a 4-18x50 with the parallax set to 100. Pics coming.
Exited as i am i am drifting more than i should....my apologies that this post is not organized well. [emoji5]
Anyway i plan to accomplish two things with this rifle and one is plinking and the other is hunting trips in TN and GA ( maybe? ). That's the reason for the 2 different loads. I'm hoping( and seemed to have accomplished it to some degree) to get good enough accuracy with my loads.
What i failed at was producing a load with a heavy enough bullet for hunting! Now i have to ask the dreaded questions...sorry.
Should i keep the 110gr for my reduced plinking loads or work up a new one using whatever bullet i choose in 130-150 gr for hunting?
Has anyone else had good accuracy with reduced loads using Unique?
I guess its not that big a deal to have two totally different loads including bullets is it?
No chronograph results on the hand loads because it was getting too many errors because i forgot to bring my diffusers and the beam overhead cast a shadow on one half of it by the time i started shooting them.
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