New to rifles and confused...

[Texas10]

That's what's called "out of the box dead accurate". Don't ya love it?!

Reloading, especially when talking about .223, is all about tuning a load to take advantage of your barrels harmonics and getting the tightest groups possible. Saving money is never going to happen with a 223 simply because store bought ammo is so cheap.

So if you're not going to hand load, the only way to get increased accuracy, all human factors aside, is to tune the barrel to the load. You can do that with a barrel tuner, typically used in 22LR because, once again, you can't hand load 22LR to tune it to the barrel, so you tune the barrel to the load.

[Hemi45]

So if you're not going to hand load, the only way to get increased accuracy, all human factors aside, is to tune the barrel to the load. You can do that with a barrel tuner, typically used in 22LR because, once again, you can't hand load 22LR to tune it to the barrel, so you tune the barrel to the load.

I never knew there was such a thing/process! Are there downsides to this? Is it one and done or can it repeated?

[71velle]

That's what's called "out of the box dead accurate". Don't ya love it?!

Reloading, especially when talking about .223, is all about tuning a load to take advantage of your barrels harmonics and getting the tightest groups possible. Saving money is never going to happen with a 223 simply because store bought ammo is so cheap.

So if you're not going to hand load, the only way to get increased accuracy, all human factors aside, is to tune the barrel to the load. You can do that with a barrel tuner, typically used in 22LR because, once again, you can't hand load 22LR to tune it to the barrel, so you tune the barrel to the load.

I do love it. The ammo I used for that is over $1 a round you dont think I could save some money loading my own.