Long bullet Phenomenon

[FW Conch]

In my case, I built my 260Rem with the intent of shooting 140grn Berger Hunting Bullets, but I could never get them to group as well at 100yds as I wanted them to. It ended up that my most accurate bullet was the 140grn Rem PSP. Later I went back and tried the Bergers at 300yds, and the group sizes shrunk MOA wise. So in this particular case, poor grouping at 100yds, improved MOA wise at the 300yrd distance. Every barrel has it's own personality, but this was my experience with this one.

[Jamie]

Patrick is correct. I won't say that I shot smaller groups at 300 than 100 yards but I will say that when I used to shoot only to 300 yards I had several that had better MOA at distance. One load was a solid 1" at 100 and turned out to be a solid 1 1/2" at 300 yards. Now I am in an area where I shoot out past 1k regularly and I don't worry about what it looks like at 100. I load test at 300 and ove out from there.

Not saying this will happen in every instance but it is not uncommon either.

[Luke45]

I took the 6.5 out to 300 yards this weekend, and 5" groups at 300 yards. Definitely going to get a new barrel or sell the entire gun and build a custom one. its hard to not make a custom gun when it cost the same as factory and shoots 5 times better

[chukarmandoo]

Luke, Sorry to hear that things didn't go good for you. If I might ask. What loads have you tried? Powder, primers, cases, bullets, and coal?

[Luke45]

[QUOTE=chukarmandoo;238394]Luke, Sorry to hear that things didn't go good for you. If I might ask. What loads have you tried? Powder, primers, cases, bullets, and coal?[/QUOT

The gun is a long range hunter. I have made a few custom 110s since then and they are way way more accurate. I am not impressed with the long range hunters barrel. Copper fouling is terrible as well i think the barrel has chatter.

Loads i have tried
-Retumbo and n160 from min to max.
-Berger 140s, and hornady 140s sst ( no need for lighter bullets i have a 243)
-Coal from at the lands to 50 thou off
-Standard and magnum primers (winchester and federal)

Any other suggestions before i cannibalize the gun?

[chukarmandoo]

Unfortunately I have nothing to add. A guy hates to put in all the time and effort and gets zero satisfaction.