Great Range Trip today (photos galore)

[PIMking]

I went to the range today, It's been about a week since I changed out the extractor in the rifle and put a new scope on it.

I had a hand load test that I was looking to test today and boy did I. The first 4 groups were all a little low by an inch, then I threw some factory ammo in and got the scope dialed in and went back to testing. I used Hornady cases, Benchmark powder, and all bullets were 55gr Hornady bullets, Varmint soft point, vmax, FMJBT, and a few other groups that I didn't take photos of (40g nosler Varmingeddon)

The first few groups were close but didn't feel right, nor did it feel consistent.

CCI 400 Primers



Group 1

group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6 I did two different groups on this because I jerked the trigger on one of them

Group 7

Group 8
hornady .223 55g vmax cannular

Group 9

Group 10

 

[LAZY EYED SNIPER]

Nice results Sir!

Looks like you had a great day out there...

 

[oli700]

People who don’t reload will never understand the work that went into this...very nice job. Labor of love for sure....I missed the yardage, assuming 100 yards ?

 

[PIMking]

yes, 100 yards.

I do my field day Saturday so I will be off killing pigs and yotes Sunday! gotta find a stable load that will do a quick job.

 

[oli700]

field day ?

 

[Itsricmo]

Holy Nice Shooting, Tex! Lol how about some photos of that rifle next?
I hope to join the cool kids crowd of reloading one day... Some day....

 

[PIMking]

field day ?

here in Alabama to kill Varmints you have to have a hunters license, I have my CCL but no hunters license and I didn't have time to do an actual hunters ed course. being the Assistant GM of a hotel here and a student living on my own I just didn't have the time to do it. So I did the online course and then a "field day" telling you not to jump over a fence with a loaded fire arm ect.

 

[oli700]

oh cool, have fun