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Saturday night the words "shut up, and take my money were spoken by me." I take a look at one in 6.5 Creedmoor. It has a price of $419 with a $100 mail in rebate. Handling it made me think of my Model 12 FSSV in .223Rem.( That rifle makes me look good without much effort.) I was going to buy a far more expensive rifle, and scope. I had them put on a tall set of scope rings as I have long neck, and get pains from scrunching my neck to look through a scope. A 6-24x50 scope.
For ammo I purchased a single box of 140 grain Nosler BT. I hand load so I picked up a can of IMR 8208 XBR, and One can of Alliant Reloader 15. Three hundred 140 grain Hornady ELD Match, and two hundred 130 grain ELD Match. 100 Hornady cases, and a thousand S&B LR primers.
I took the rifle home, and cleaned it, and removed the pacing grease from it. A few passes down the barrel with a lightly oiled patch netted a clean patch. So A few dry patches, and I cased it up for the night.
Some information on the rifle: it is a heavy varmint barrel. The weight is 8.75 pounds empty with no scope. With the large scope I put on it I am guesstimating around 11 pounds. I will add a bipod to it soon as well. The barrel is 26 inches long. The stock is the low end synthetic. The barrel is free floated. It has the adjustable AccuTrigger. The factory pull measured on a trigger scale at just a tick over 3 pounds. I lightened it up with the supplied tool, After 15 minutes of dry fire the pull measured at 1 pound 4 ounces. Capacity is 4 plus one with a blind internal magazine.
For the initial sight in I went to the 25 yard line and put 3 shots out of it. All 3 went into a near caliber sized hole that was 2 inches right, and 2 inches low. 8 clicks up 16 left put it to dead center and inch low on the next shot. I then moved to the 100 yard line. The wind was moving the target board quite a bit as the wind was behind it at 25 mph sustained, and gust of 35 were frequent, and more than few hats, and unweighted cases went flying away. Groups were still impressive to me. I find them to be outstanding for the conditions, and the fact that they were put into a moving target at 100 yards using a bench rest that has seen better years.
A picture of the rifle.
A picture of the load development targets. this was 2 groups of 4 shots each. After the first 4 I corrected the scope for one inch right and one inch down.
The load was using IMR8208XBR and 140 grain Hornady ELD Match. Primers were CCI 200. I do not have a chrono so I have no idea what the actual velocity was. It is a middle of the road load. 4 sources list the max at 2 or more grains higher. My data was from Nosler.
Yesterday I had enough time to stop at the range with the wind a little more calm. 3 shot group at 100 yards off of sand bags. Cold bore shot, and two more right behind it at about 10 seconds for intervals. I stopped there as the sun was going down, and I had to get home, and eat dinner.
For ammo I purchased a single box of 140 grain Nosler BT. I hand load so I picked up a can of IMR 8208 XBR, and One can of Alliant Reloader 15. Three hundred 140 grain Hornady ELD Match, and two hundred 130 grain ELD Match. 100 Hornady cases, and a thousand S&B LR primers.
I took the rifle home, and cleaned it, and removed the pacing grease from it. A few passes down the barrel with a lightly oiled patch netted a clean patch. So A few dry patches, and I cased it up for the night.
Some information on the rifle: it is a heavy varmint barrel. The weight is 8.75 pounds empty with no scope. With the large scope I put on it I am guesstimating around 11 pounds. I will add a bipod to it soon as well. The barrel is 26 inches long. The stock is the low end synthetic. The barrel is free floated. It has the adjustable AccuTrigger. The factory pull measured on a trigger scale at just a tick over 3 pounds. I lightened it up with the supplied tool, After 15 minutes of dry fire the pull measured at 1 pound 4 ounces. Capacity is 4 plus one with a blind internal magazine.
For the initial sight in I went to the 25 yard line and put 3 shots out of it. All 3 went into a near caliber sized hole that was 2 inches right, and 2 inches low. 8 clicks up 16 left put it to dead center and inch low on the next shot. I then moved to the 100 yard line. The wind was moving the target board quite a bit as the wind was behind it at 25 mph sustained, and gust of 35 were frequent, and more than few hats, and unweighted cases went flying away. Groups were still impressive to me. I find them to be outstanding for the conditions, and the fact that they were put into a moving target at 100 yards using a bench rest that has seen better years.
A picture of the rifle.
A picture of the load development targets. this was 2 groups of 4 shots each. After the first 4 I corrected the scope for one inch right and one inch down.
The load was using IMR8208XBR and 140 grain Hornady ELD Match. Primers were CCI 200. I do not have a chrono so I have no idea what the actual velocity was. It is a middle of the road load. 4 sources list the max at 2 or more grains higher. My data was from Nosler.
Yesterday I had enough time to stop at the range with the wind a little more calm. 3 shot group at 100 yards off of sand bags. Cold bore shot, and two more right behind it at about 10 seconds for intervals. I stopped there as the sun was going down, and I had to get home, and eat dinner.