260 Rem Shilen Select Match build

[RevM]

Took it out to a friend's farm and did a little bit of sighting in at 50yds in his pasture. I had just bore sighted it in the backyard and found that I was already within minute-of-deer for the range I was testing it out at.

2" to the right and 2" up and I had the windage dead nuts and it was putting 5 rounds into about quarter-sized groups about 2" above POA ... which ought to have me pretty close when I get to stretch it out a bit.

My goal for this is for me to be comfortable on shots on deer at 350yds or so.

The suppressor made it pretty quiet though I kept my ear pro on. I took out my 6.8 SPC AR right after shooting it and the AR was significantly and very noticeably louder even with quality Peltor muffs on.

Also felt pretty good about this as this was the first time I've loaded and shot my own ammo.

[Steelhead]

Took it out to a friend's farm and did a little bit of sighting in at 50yds in his pasture. I had just bore sighted it in the backyard and found that I was already within minute-of-deer for the range I was testing it out at.

2" to the right and 2" up and I had the windage dead nuts and it was putting 5 rounds into about quarter-sized groups about 2" above POA ... which ought to have me pretty close when I get to stretch it out a bit.

My goal for this is for me to be comfortable on shots on deer at 350yds or so.

The suppressor made it pretty quiet though I kept my ear pro on. I took out my 6.8 SPC AR right after shooting it and the AR was significantly and very noticeably louder even with quality Peltor muffs on.

Also felt pretty good about this as this was the first time I've loaded and shot my own ammo.

NiCE!
what are you using for bullets and powder?


I've got my shilen barrel on the action and I opened up the stock so I could start load dev.
Even with the flimsy factory stock I was averaging 1/2 MOA during barrel break in.
My Choate tactical stock should be here Mon!

[trozzo51]

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Mistakenly printed Sierra, bullets are Hornady. This is an out of the box 12 with accutrigger. For economical reasons I try to stick with a single powder. Having shot ARs for a while I was using AA 2230. So I worked up some loads for the 45 70 and the 260. I can plug in the load data to the RCBS charge master and dispense exact measures for each of the guns without having to change powders over. So far it looks like I can work up accurate loads for all the guns.