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Also reduced neck tension by .002 BTW.

All your suggestions are getting me closer and closer. After bedding the recoil lug, checking all the tolerances, opening up some action...

Gentleman, My other hunting rifles, 708 & 308 both with Shilen barrels will consistently print 1/2 MOA, I've printed tighter. I have...

1st, the load is out of tune. 2nd, it's not a benchrest rifle. 3rd, try tuning the bullet seating depth in small increments of .002-.003...

Here’s the weird. I shot 3 shot strings, cooling 10 minutes between strings. Could a poor heat treat on the barrel do this??? Shoot the...

Need to make a correction: the current barrel is a Criterion, not a McCowen. Also I’m re-learning that barrels are like Harry Potter...

I think I will continue experimenting with on-hand stuff. I have plenty of 6.6 StaBAL, H1000, 4831SC, 140 & 168 VLDs, 150 NABs, misc...

My hunting distance is 550 on game, out to 1,000 on hogs. 2 firings on the brass, the behavior hasn’t changed. Temp stable powder is...

BTW my previous 6 shots in 750” apparently was a fluke, as it wouldn’t do it again! 😐

UPDATE: Still well below my expectations. I was able to use the rifle and take a mule deer and spike whitetail, the groups were “good...

I have the NF SHV 5x20 x 56. They run $1100-1300. Although this is a lower level NF, I have been extremely pleased with this optic...

Gentlemen, Thanks for all the inputs, the rifle is shooting. Deep clean, lug bedded and other bedding cleanup. Just put 6 shots in...

BTW I decided on using the 160 ABs that were running 2900. I’ll do a ladder in 1/10gr increments moving up from 58.7gr.

Update… I pulled the rifle apart, bedded the recoil lug and also found that the stock had some paint from the OEM slightly over the...

To answer an earlier question “before I changed the barrel”… the action came from a 25-06 that I owned for 40 years and a tack driver...