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Well, deer season's over and I finally got back to working on a load for my Savage Weather Warrior .308. As reported on P* before the board was killed, I found that Remington's load with 165 Ballistic Tips would shoot while nothing I had put to gether would do any better than 1½ inches at 100 yards.
Today I took four loads all using 165 grain bullets and 46.0 grains of Varget. The best at 1.0 inch was the BTs followed by the Grand Slams. The Speir BTSP and Match Kings suck! I'll give it another go in a week or so with the BTs and vary the load at ½ grain intervals from 45.0 to the max listed on the Varget canister of 47.0 grains.
If this pans out, I'll start on the Tikka .25-06, which to date is the worst shooting rifle I own. :grumble:
Today I took four loads all using 165 grain bullets and 46.0 grains of Varget. The best at 1.0 inch was the BTs followed by the Grand Slams. The Speir BTSP and Match Kings suck! I'll give it another go in a week or so with the BTs and vary the load at ½ grain intervals from 45.0 to the max listed on the Varget canister of 47.0 grains.
If this pans out, I'll start on the Tikka .25-06, which to date is the worst shooting rifle I own. :grumble: