Budget .243 accuracy

[snox801]

Started load work for a friend. He has a savage axis .243 the original one. No accutrigger, nothing special. Paid $249 for the rifle.
Topped with red field 6-18 scope also around the $250 at the time.
Clean to bare metal and went with a soft load for pressure to start.

75gr hammer hht
Stabal 6.5
Starline brass
Fed 210
Got a perfect 3600fps 10.6 fps spread
Out of this 22" barrel and zero pressure. Seems very soft to shoot even. Have to say not bad for 300 yards cheap rifle off a snow and ice covered bench.
Plus the biggest excuse is I can't shoot well compared to most in here.

 

[LBEdgin]

Mine is a heavy barrel Winchester 1-12 twist and loves 41.3gr of Varget with 70gr Sierra BlitzKing.

 

[Mountain Sloth]

I've got a load worked up with some 100 grain spire points (lots of old 6mm pills in the stash) and I'm hoping 6.5 stabl works well in this and a 6.5 creed. I'll have my initial results Sunday morning at the range

 

[snox801]

Just went and confirmed. It's shoot so good at 3600 the higher groups made more speed and I'm sure if I got higher the groups would tighten back up. But I'm happy with it as is now.

 

[Tiny Tim]

Alot of vertical in that group JK. Great shooting for a $500.00 package!

 

[Ark. Trapper]

The ole 243 has always been easy to make an accurate load for. I used to sight in between 25 and 50 rifles a year for folks, and I've never seen a 243 that couldn't be made into a 3/4 moa rig. Surprisingly enough, one of the most accurate ones I ever shot was a Remington 7600 pump shooting handloaded 105 grain roundnose bullets. That's not a typo either, lol. We actually bought a box of those ole bullets and tried em in 3 or 4 other rifles with the same result. The ole 243 is an absolute pleasure! Great shooting by the way!