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Good reminder.Don't use the match grade ammo you ordered for hunting!
Yup.Hunting ammo is designed for a happy medium between accuracy and terminal performance.
You generally won't be punching out one hole groups with it.
They have yet to make any stocks that would support those kind of modification for my rifle, and I would likely be looking at custom work, outside the budget at the moment.If it were me:
get the proper front and rear rests (not a bipod)
free float your barrel
glass bed or pillar bed your action
work on trigger control and breathing
don't get locked into telling your gun what it likes, experiment with different bullet weights and styles (this seems trivial to some but I've had one inch groups tighten to 1/4 inch groups by dropping a bullet 25 grains)
Dave
Is this really all there is to it?
It's not a need, it's a want lolYou dont need a 1/4 minute gun, whitetails dont react well to losing limbs, and that round will do just that haha.
Maybe I have just enough slack somewhere in my makeshift rest that's causing movement or perhaps I'm not being as smooth as I can be on the trigger. But first I want to build my cheek riser and get that settled, then buy my new bipod.Not trying to be critical. Not at all. Those groups are only a little better than what I would shoot with my AR with stock iron sights, usually I'll do 4-6 inch groups off a sandbag. Something is moving either on that rifle or you are. From solid rest you should be able to do twice as good as that.
FYI, this model Harris bipod is at an all time low price on Amazon. Usually $90-ish is as low as they tend to go in my experience.That bipod is a POS and the leg was failing after each shot so I gave up on it. Time for a better built option.
I have a winterseed patch that I earned this past spring after missing the cut the year prior. I learned quite a bit from those two trips and with an AR I'm doing much tighter groups than with this rifle, which I'm assuming is more a result of poor rest setup paired with increased recoil than poor fundamentals at this point.
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I'm not bothered by the noise, the recoil just knocks me off target by a few feet.And if your not already...plugs AND muffs. It won't change the actual Newton Meters of the whole recoil thing but it will lower your perception of it quite a bit.
Your basically have vertical stringing more than anything.Maybe I have just enough slack somewhere in my makeshift rest that's causing movement or perhaps I'm not being as smooth as I can be on the trigger. But first I want to build my cheek riser and get that settled, then buy my new bipod.
I'm not bothered by the noise, the recoil just knocks me off target by a few feet.
I haven't shot it hardly at all since this thread to be honest. I need to get back to figuring it out. Fit and finish has been pretty good, so I'd recommend one. Jury is still out on the caliber choice though.sorry to resurrect and oldie, but darth, how do you like the XPR? considering one in 270 wsm. fit and finish ok? trigger gritty? sounds like stick with low scope rings depending on scope.
270 isn't very sought after so in short times like these, projos stay available. (25-45 sharps is a good example of an AR round to shoot in lean times) but that looks like a decent model for the price point.
With other guns, I've been stringing vertically and to the left still. So the shots in the OP are totally with in the realm of me just having a shitty time focusing.Well, did he figure out how to tighten that group up? 2 years down, people want to know.
i have a Remi 700 in 300winmag. i'm fine with recoil but for the sake of consistent shooting i ordered a Witt Machine clamp on brake. maybe that would help ease your mind a little.I haven't shot it hardly at all since this thread to be honest. I need to get back to figuring it out. Fit and finish has been pretty good, so I'd recommend one. Jury is still out on the caliber choice though.
With other guns, I've been stringing vertically and to the left still. So the shots in the OP are totally with in the realm of me just having a shitty time focusing.
And just flatly, a severe lack of getting my ass to the range.
With other guns, I've been stringing vertically and to the left still. So the shots in the OP are totally with in the realm of me just having a shitty time focusing.
And just flatly, a severe lack of getting my ass to the range.