SouthLoganCountyShooter
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Kind of long post. Lol.
Wby vanguard deluxe 338win. When I got the rifle 6 years ago. Did load development with 230eldx hybrid 100v. Shot well under 1moa. Loaded up bunch. Fast forward to 3 years ago. Took it apart to clean. Found the stock had cracked. For recoil lug back to cross bolt. After searching for a year for a correct replacement no luck. (Barrel channel list as #2 but that fat 338 is more like a #3.) So I picked up a deluxe stock and sanded it out to fit. In doing so I ended up floating it. Shot like crap. Stripped and rebedded action. Fits like glove. Shoots like crap 3moa. Added pressure to Barrel 3 businesses cards thick shoots like crap. Sanded back out. Started seating depth test. All of the rounds I had loaded previously were 10k off lands. Cleaned barrel then did 3 Shot depth changes 15, 20, 20, 25 all the way to book spec Shot horrible shoot consistent bad 2moa at best. Changed powder to 7828ssc did a quick 2 Shot load development at 20k off lands 2moa+. Picked up a box of 180 accubonds Did load development with h4350 20k off lands. Shot bad but not as bad. Took the best group. Did seating depth test. 5k- book speck. Got one group that looked promising. Could not get it to repeat. Same lots of powder same sleeve of primers 215 same old stock r&p brass. Changed brass to new win and primers to cci250. No change.
I have taken rifle apart inspected everything. Re torque action. Pulled scope re torque rail screws picked up new vx3 3.5-10x50 scope mounted tq rings to spec. Even pulled the new scope put it on a different rifle and it works as it should. I'm at end of my rope help. I did notice there was a tight spot when I was checking float. Pulled stock found it'd the swivel stud. Could it be hitting and screwing up the harmonics? Don't see any marks on barrel. Time to rebarrel????
Wby vanguard deluxe 338win. When I got the rifle 6 years ago. Did load development with 230eldx hybrid 100v. Shot well under 1moa. Loaded up bunch. Fast forward to 3 years ago. Took it apart to clean. Found the stock had cracked. For recoil lug back to cross bolt. After searching for a year for a correct replacement no luck. (Barrel channel list as #2 but that fat 338 is more like a #3.) So I picked up a deluxe stock and sanded it out to fit. In doing so I ended up floating it. Shot like crap. Stripped and rebedded action. Fits like glove. Shoots like crap 3moa. Added pressure to Barrel 3 businesses cards thick shoots like crap. Sanded back out. Started seating depth test. All of the rounds I had loaded previously were 10k off lands. Cleaned barrel then did 3 Shot depth changes 15, 20, 20, 25 all the way to book spec Shot horrible shoot consistent bad 2moa at best. Changed powder to 7828ssc did a quick 2 Shot load development at 20k off lands 2moa+. Picked up a box of 180 accubonds Did load development with h4350 20k off lands. Shot bad but not as bad. Took the best group. Did seating depth test. 5k- book speck. Got one group that looked promising. Could not get it to repeat. Same lots of powder same sleeve of primers 215 same old stock r&p brass. Changed brass to new win and primers to cci250. No change.
I have taken rifle apart inspected everything. Re torque action. Pulled scope re torque rail screws picked up new vx3 3.5-10x50 scope mounted tq rings to spec. Even pulled the new scope put it on a different rifle and it works as it should. I'm at end of my rope help. I did notice there was a tight spot when I was checking float. Pulled stock found it'd the swivel stud. Could it be hitting and screwing up the harmonics? Don't see any marks on barrel. Time to rebarrel????
