I have a couple of those Oryx chassis, one T3x in 22CM and T1x in 22LR I really enjoy both of them
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I'm looking forward to your report. I wish I could get over my fit and finish obsession. I would save a ton of $$. The peace of mind that I had with an old beat up Savage 110 was great when belly crawling through rough terrain. It rattled and looked horrible, but did the job until finally succumbed to the abuse.
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Sorry guys. I had gotten busy with everything else in life, and put this on the backburner.
I did do initial load development for the gun using standard small rifle primers and many different powders and loads for 32gr and 40gr vmax bullets. The best three shot group I got was .4" using the 40gr bullet over BLC-2. I loaded a box of them, and found the group size to actually be around 1 moa. Not what I want for a prairie dog rifle. I did get a coyote with it in January though.
Fast forward to this last week. I retried 15 loads using magnum primers and the 40 grain Vmax. It did tighten up a lot. I was able to find .5 moa or less groups using IMR 4064, H4895, and Varget. Varget was the winner for sure at 27.1 grains and 28.1 grains. Got this done right before we do our annual prairie dog hunt next weekend.
I think I will put the gun in an Oryx chassis, but it will likely be next spring before I can do it. I will report back after. Here are the two Varget groups the factory gun shot though.
I did do initial load development for the gun using standard small rifle primers and many different powders and loads for 32gr and 40gr vmax bullets. The best three shot group I got was .4" using the 40gr bullet over BLC-2. I loaded a box of them, and found the group size to actually be around 1 moa. Not what I want for a prairie dog rifle. I did get a coyote with it in January though.
Fast forward to this last week. I retried 15 loads using magnum primers and the 40 grain Vmax. It did tighten up a lot. I was able to find .5 moa or less groups using IMR 4064, H4895, and Varget. Varget was the winner for sure at 27.1 grains and 28.1 grains. Got this done right before we do our annual prairie dog hunt next weekend.
I think I will put the gun in an Oryx chassis, but it will likely be next spring before I can do it. I will report back after. Here are the two Varget groups the factory gun shot though.
