Good points. I too will admit I wasn't impressed with the Viper 6-24x44 that I got on sale for $329 earlier this year from Midway. The glass just didn't seem to be there either so I sold it locally. However, the glass on my Viper PST 4-16x50 EBR-1 MRAD has been excellent for the price I paid ($550 from EuroOptic).Quote:
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I will give Monarch 5s credit where credit is due...also an excellent piece for the price point
Once you get a 100 or so rounds down the barrel it should shrink those groups up a bit.
I have a 204R in a model 11 trophy hunter. With ammo it likes It shoots about .5 MOA. I have been working on reloading but can't beat Hornady super performance 32 Gr ammo yet. Starting on Sierra 39 Gr stuff next outing. Replaced the original 3-9 Nikon with a 4-12 I swapped from a Tikka 223 had
I just went out and stretched the legs of my .223 today.
I really have to say that this is the best gun/scope-purchase I've ever made.
We hauled a target stand with a metal drip pan hanging in it and a milk jug out to 600-yards this morning and let some bullets fly. We couldn't hear the bullets hitting the drip pan like I thought we would but the dirt splash behind it let us know we were hitting it. Then my buddy took a few shots at the milk jug and missed. I could see he was hitting high so I dialed 1 MOA down and when I shot I was below the target. So, I dialed back to my original solution and held 1MOA for left-to-right wind and BAM. Drilled the milk-jug dead center. This was with Australian Outback 69gr SMK factory loads, btw.
I have my .223 Forster Bench-Rest dies on standby with a bunch of 68gr Hornady HPBT bullets and Varget. I'll probably load up some 75gr Hornady HPBT and 77gr SMK once I get rolling just to experiment.
I've got a bunch of ADI brass now, has anyone ever loaded it?
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My 1x9 223 shoots/stabilizes the hornady 75 bthp very well. I seat mine close to the lands and use ar-comp. Excellent 300 yard load
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Not a 223 but I just bought an 11 predator hunter with a medium contour barrel. Off bags out of the box with Winchester varmint X factory loads I put the first 4 shots out of the rifle into the same hole,so these rifles can shoot.
My dimensions both print half moa with my handmade loads.
I've never seen a savage,even an axis not print 1/2moa with load development
The only other Savage I've ever shot was my mom's .243 in a birch stock. It wasn't a great shooter but it was old, old.Quote:
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All the modern Savage rifles I've seen at the range were shooting good groups. I figured if mine wasn't a shooter I was just going to do a CBI barrel in .223AI with a 1:8" twist. Glad I didn't have to do that and it's shooting factory ammo easily sub-moa so I have no doubt I will be able to drive tacks with hand-loads.
I'm setting up an 8" gong at my shooting spot at 600 yards so I don't have to walk out as much. It's kind of a let-down how easy it was to accomplish my goal of "milk-jug at 600-yards", lol. I'll have to push it out to 700 now. Shooting at 2000ft elevation helps.
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Glad to hear you got it figured out.Quote:
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