.223 Model 10/110 accuracy sux

Good. My only suggestion would be to work up loads with a little less increments in powder, maybe 1/4 or 1/3 just because .223 uses relatively less powder than, say, 30-06. As a result, jumping by 1/2 grain might cause you to miss a "sweet spot" or center of a node. I could be wrong, God knows I have been before. :)

I did .2 grain jumps for my 223... worked out really well

Okay. Good advice. Smaller jumps it is. Thanks

This members of this forum are great. Everyone pitching in to help.

Definitely! They've given me alot of help, input, opinions, tips...etc...its awesome here. Try not to throw too many variables in at one time. Try and get everything right on the gun side first. Then with your reloading try not to change anything but powder charge at first. Then, after finding some consistency, there can be tweaks done with powders, primers, seating depths and so on. Its very rare(in my opinion) for one of these rifles to just plain not shoot well. Everybody here will help out.
Scooter

Pocatello

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Definitely! They've given me alot of help, input, opinions, tips...etc...its awesome here. Try not to throw too many variables in at one time. Try and get everything right on the gun side first. Then with your reloading try not to change anything but powder charge at first. Then, after finding some consistency, there can be tweaks done with powders, primers, seating depths and so on. Its very rare(in my opinion) for one of these rifles to just plain not shoot well. Everybody here will help out.
Scooter

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Thanks Scooter, that's my plan. I'm going to establish a seating depth and stay with it. Full length resize on first reload only then neck size after that. No crimp. I will start with a mid range charge and vary above and below that by 0.2 gr at a time.
I plan to keep a lot of notes.

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Originally Posted by Rooster 50

I sure wish you lived down the street I would just tell you to bring it over and we would work it over until it shot right, us old guys need to stick together.

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Amen to that!

I'm making progress. 40Gr V-max gave a 0.74 inch group but I need/want a heavier bullet for the longer ranges that I encounter here in Idaho. I've reloaded Barnes 69gr BTHP bullets over 23.6 gr of H335 and got a 0.92 inch group. I want them to touch so I have a long way to go but at least I'm headed in the right direction.

Still playing with loads. I have several different groups of ammo loaded at 23.8 and 24 gr and plan to go the other way and load down to 22.8 and 22.6 to see if there is any improvement that direction. I also am going to buy a box of bullets from another manufacturer to see if I get any better results there.

Having fun now. Thanks for the help.

Try 77gr SMK with a stout load of RL-15. Works good in my 9 twist.