FireFlyFishing
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Love me some IMR4895. Good luck finding it nowadays.My accurate load is 43.2 IMR4895, this is a group I shot with the rifle pictured left. The hole left is my aiming point, the group is five rounds at 100
Love me some IMR4895. Good luck finding it nowadays.My accurate load is 43.2 IMR4895, this is a group I shot with the rifle pictured left. The hole left is my aiming point, the group is five rounds at 100
Try the ABLR close to the lands. I chased precision with them following internet lore with them seated .050-.100" off the lands and had nothing but frustration. When fireforming for an improved cartridge I seated them to the lands and got one hole groups.
You might be surprised. My M1As are fantastic shooters. The one I have in a sage chassis will shoot pretty well at 600.WTG! I agree; it's a keeper. My .308 Win is an AR-10, but I have not loaded for it or stretched beyond 200Y. I do not expect accuracy like yours, but it would still be fun to ring some steel at a distance.
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Cool, that's good to know.You might be surprised. My M1As are fantastic shooters. The one I have in a sage chassis will shoot pretty well at 600.
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I switched over to 168 ELDM's over 43.5 gr IMR 4064. An old lot of powder that must have dried out over the last twenty years. That charge gets me 2820 fps! Glad I worked my way up.My best group ever was with a 308 and 168 AMAX over 44.0 IMR 4064. I shot a 5 shot group at .195 at 100 yards. That was with an earlier version of the Remington 5R.
Gotta love factory rifles that will print that!Here's a sampling of what the Sierra 168 TMK is capable of in my rifle. I used three different powders and they all grouped under 1" at 400yds. Interestingly enough, the rifle is a sporting class rifle that was built for whitetail hunting, and not a LR shooting rig.
Try SRP brass and I bet the pressure goes away!I ran into pressure issues 44-45, and had to keep it at 43.5.
So is there one load that will work well in an FAL, an AR10 and an M70 in the 308?I had AR10s but sold them off to get M1A's. I got rid of them and kept my FALs. They all work well depending on the build.