SES50
Well-Known Member
So I am getting ready for my Colorado elk hunt this year and have been working on putting together a 300SMK load for my 338 Lapua. I spend a good amount of time on different load combinations of H1000 with Fed and CCI primers. The COL is set that I just fit into my magazine which puts me about .030" off the lands. Not ideal but at least I can get multiple rounds in the rifle.
I went to the range this weekend and started shooting at my target over my crono and the extreem spreads were up in the mid 30fps. The yardage to the target was 436 yards and my groups were not all that impressive. So half way through I thought, "maybe the recoil is pushing the bullet further into the case which is why the spread is so wide. So I started single loading them and the first group of 5 had and ES of 15fps. The second group of five had an ES of 9 and the last group had and ES of 11. Wow, that sure changed things.
Anyone else run into this situation? Anyone else have a good solution to deal with this in a hunting situation where I would like to have more than one round in the rifle at any give time and still have good accuracy?
Thanks
SES50
I went to the range this weekend and started shooting at my target over my crono and the extreem spreads were up in the mid 30fps. The yardage to the target was 436 yards and my groups were not all that impressive. So half way through I thought, "maybe the recoil is pushing the bullet further into the case which is why the spread is so wide. So I started single loading them and the first group of 5 had and ES of 15fps. The second group of five had an ES of 9 and the last group had and ES of 11. Wow, that sure changed things.
Anyone else run into this situation? Anyone else have a good solution to deal with this in a hunting situation where I would like to have more than one round in the rifle at any give time and still have good accuracy?
Thanks
SES50