Met my good buddy and also saw two other friends at the club range in Augusta, ME yesterday. The group shot below was from my Rem 700 LVSS put at least five shots in 0.2" (stopped counting) and one shot that I pulled a bit (slight flinch). (After shooting about 4 shots and getting that flyer, I put another one or two more into the two-tenth's inch group.)
Love that rifle, since putting in a new firing pin assembly. It's made cocking much easier and there's no drag. The previous assembly had a serpentine stainless spring that rubbed against the bolt channel and caused both inconsistent firing pin strikes and light pin hits that caused cratering. Bolt lift was also much harder.
Anyway, this "used" rifle purchase has finally seen its cure and is now the most accurate centerfire in my stable. The load was 55 grain Sierra SPBT, with a moderate amount of Varget and CCI standard primers. Cases are once-fired Starline, which are the best cases I've ever used.
The group is almost perfectly centered one-inch high, which is where I normally place them for shooting varmints out to 200 or so...mostly crows and coyotes, in the blueberry fields down back.
Also brought my Tikka 595 and my "bargain barn" Synthetic-stocked Rem 700 ADL, both .223s. The 595 has been very accurate and the ADL has shot some very nice groups, but the rounded forend makes shooting groups off the front bag a bit difficult, so have to hold it down carefully. All three rifles have now shot 0.2" groups at 100 yards, but they don't all "love" the same loads.
The target is one that I designed using an old mechanical drawing program. Fine grid is 1" with four 2" squares and a center 2" circle and inner 1" circle. Two squares also have inner 1" circles. We print it on a photocopier, using card stock.
JP
Love that rifle, since putting in a new firing pin assembly. It's made cocking much easier and there's no drag. The previous assembly had a serpentine stainless spring that rubbed against the bolt channel and caused both inconsistent firing pin strikes and light pin hits that caused cratering. Bolt lift was also much harder.
Anyway, this "used" rifle purchase has finally seen its cure and is now the most accurate centerfire in my stable. The load was 55 grain Sierra SPBT, with a moderate amount of Varget and CCI standard primers. Cases are once-fired Starline, which are the best cases I've ever used.
The group is almost perfectly centered one-inch high, which is where I normally place them for shooting varmints out to 200 or so...mostly crows and coyotes, in the blueberry fields down back.
Also brought my Tikka 595 and my "bargain barn" Synthetic-stocked Rem 700 ADL, both .223s. The 595 has been very accurate and the ADL has shot some very nice groups, but the rounded forend makes shooting groups off the front bag a bit difficult, so have to hold it down carefully. All three rifles have now shot 0.2" groups at 100 yards, but they don't all "love" the same loads.
The target is one that I designed using an old mechanical drawing program. Fine grid is 1" with four 2" squares and a center 2" circle and inner 1" circle. Two squares also have inner 1" circles. We print it on a photocopier, using card stock.
JP
