- Joined
- Dec 26, 2001
- Messages
- 9,640
- Reaction score
- 20,301
- City & State/Province
- Long Island, New York
Headed out to our club yesterday with a selection of rifles. I'm still testing loads in my 22 Creed with a 26" Bartlein bbl.
I decided to try some RS Grand again after seeing good potential previously. Here's what I had loaded:
Hornady 88 ELD-M @ .014 off the rifling
Alpha SRP brass
CCI 450 primer
46.0 RS Grand
I was expecting to get about 3,200 fps. On the initial shot I noticed the recoil & report to be noticeably less than expected. There was no hole near my 1" orange dot on the 400yd target. I glanced down at the Garmin and it read 1,650fps. Hmmmm I dispense with a Chargemaster and then trickle up to the kernel on a FX12i, so I was highly confident in the charge, but I must have screwed up somewhere. I fire a second round and got the same results with light recoil & report. Velocity was 1,645fps. Now I'm baffled but still committed to firing the 3rd round. Results were the same and there were no visible holes on the target at 400yds.
What went wrong?
BTW - I did figure it out.
I decided to try some RS Grand again after seeing good potential previously. Here's what I had loaded:
Hornady 88 ELD-M @ .014 off the rifling
Alpha SRP brass
CCI 450 primer
46.0 RS Grand
I was expecting to get about 3,200 fps. On the initial shot I noticed the recoil & report to be noticeably less than expected. There was no hole near my 1" orange dot on the 400yd target. I glanced down at the Garmin and it read 1,650fps. Hmmmm I dispense with a Chargemaster and then trickle up to the kernel on a FX12i, so I was highly confident in the charge, but I must have screwed up somewhere. I fire a second round and got the same results with light recoil & report. Velocity was 1,645fps. Now I'm baffled but still committed to firing the 3rd round. Results were the same and there were no visible holes on the target at 400yds.
What went wrong?
BTW - I did figure it out.
