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I'm glad I gave up on the Bergers
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<blockquote data-quote="XMC" data-source="post: 429110" data-attributes="member: 25329"><p>Hey Jarhead, I was having a hell of a time with bergers myself, just got my 7mm RM back from the custom shop and thought I would change to 168 VLD's. I was running tests from touching the lands to 10 and 15 thou off... got crazy today and took some to the range today: 10 at 10 thou off the lands, 10 at 45 off the lands and 10 at 80 thou off the lands. Useing 71 grains of retumbo in all the above loads my 10 at 10 thou gave me a group the size of a baseball at 200 yds, the next group of 10 at 45 thou off the lands went down to a consistant dime size group at the same 200 yds. the next group at 80 off started to open up h<span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">orizontally so back to the range in the morning to work around 45 thou and fine tune.... I had read in a lot of posts that bergers like to sit close to the lands but as I found today some riles will like them if you give them a jump. hope this helps and wasn't to confusing in the way I wrote it... kind of in a hurry tonight...</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">By the way brother... Semper Fi</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">gun)</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="XMC, post: 429110, member: 25329"] Hey Jarhead, I was having a hell of a time with bergers myself, just got my 7mm RM back from the custom shop and thought I would change to 168 VLD's. I was running tests from touching the lands to 10 and 15 thou off... got crazy today and took some to the range today: 10 at 10 thou off the lands, 10 at 45 off the lands and 10 at 80 thou off the lands. Useing 71 grains of retumbo in all the above loads my 10 at 10 thou gave me a group the size of a baseball at 200 yds, the next group of 10 at 45 thou off the lands went down to a consistant dime size group at the same 200 yds. the next group at 80 off started to open up h[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]orizontally so back to the range in the morning to work around 45 thou and fine tune.... I had read in a lot of posts that bergers like to sit close to the lands but as I found today some riles will like them if you give them a jump. hope this helps and wasn't to confusing in the way I wrote it... kind of in a hurry tonight...[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]By the way brother... Semper Fi[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]gun)[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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