Hi All,

I have a savage 16 .300 wsm (non accustock) and recently started hand loading my hunting rounds. I was shooting federal fusions and am now shooting Nosler Accubonds.

The hunting forum I belong to has mixed responses on how I can clean my groups up. It's either in my action or in my hand loads. I know the little bit of left & right is my shooting ability but I wanted to get some opinions here.

I am using RL19 and 180 gr Nosler Accubons with CCI magnum primers.

This group is with 63 gr of powder



And this one is with 65 gr.





The vertical stringing is causing some confusion to me. Not sure what to do. Mess with bedding the action, or mess with the hand loads some more.

The cases are set at 2.83 OACL per the nosler load data.

Any advice on what to try?