waco
Springfield, Oregon
Ready for sage rats! I'm very happy with my early results with this rifle. I threw a Boyd's laminate stock on it, an inexpensive bipod, a cheap Cabela's brand scope, and I'm all in for around $825 with mounts, rings and everything.
Beautiful day today here in western Oregon. Sunny, 60 degrees, light breeze. We were shooting at 100 yards from the prone position using the bipod up front and a bag under the butt of the stock.
These loads show potential. These loads were assembled as followed.
Mix .223/.556 brass found out in the woods.
Cleaned and polished then annealed.
Full length sized then trimmed.
WW small rifle primers is what I used.
55gr Nosler Varmageddon was the bullet.
25gr H335 and 25gr Varget were the powders used.
The speeds were a little slow but accurate. The H335 load averaged 3086 and the Varget was 3020
So this is random mixed brass that was FL sized, freshly annealed, and the bullets were seated to factory specs. My thought are with same lot/weight/head stamp brass that has been neck sized only and seated out to .005/.010" off the lands I might be able to shrink the groups up a bit. If not, so be it. I'm Very happy with my new inexpensive Savage. Here are some pics......
Beautiful day today here in western Oregon. Sunny, 60 degrees, light breeze. We were shooting at 100 yards from the prone position using the bipod up front and a bag under the butt of the stock.
These loads show potential. These loads were assembled as followed.
Mix .223/.556 brass found out in the woods.
Cleaned and polished then annealed.
Full length sized then trimmed.
WW small rifle primers is what I used.
55gr Nosler Varmageddon was the bullet.
25gr H335 and 25gr Varget were the powders used.
The speeds were a little slow but accurate. The H335 load averaged 3086 and the Varget was 3020
So this is random mixed brass that was FL sized, freshly annealed, and the bullets were seated to factory specs. My thought are with same lot/weight/head stamp brass that has been neck sized only and seated out to .005/.010" off the lands I might be able to shrink the groups up a bit. If not, so be it. I'm Very happy with my new inexpensive Savage. Here are some pics......