Trying to find an accurate load for my 30-06 m70

Are you sorting your brass? Hornady brass imo is not so good. Inconsistent rockwells and case capacities and also really poor headspace specs. Try sorting whatever you have to 1 gr. Also loading to the lands is more for a secant ogive bullet. Tangent ogive bullets really don't care how far away they are from the lands as long as your chambers true. Nos bt's are tangent ogive.
 
Sako2,

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The intentional barrel contact point can make the gun easier to tune loads for and make some ammunition not previously accurate become accurate. Harold Vaughn referred to this as "O'Connor bedding" because he believed he'd first heard about it in an article that Jack O'Connor had written long ago. You basically wedge shims between the barrel and stock starting at the tip of the stock and moving back small amounts until the groups tighten. You then affix them at that point. The general consensus seems to be that you want between 10 and 20 lbs of force of the barrel pushing down on the stock. The easiest way I've found to do that is to set the gun on the bench with the front bag back under the magazine floor plate and the fore-end overhanging the bench, then hold the butt of the stock down while I hang a couple of gallon jugs of water off the sling swivel at the front while I insert the wedges until they feel snug, then remove the water jugs. The arrangement would look like this from the front:

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Vaughn's opinion was that this is the only kind of bedding that may be counted on to help a rifle with a light, whippy barrel. However, like any kind of tuning it is interacting with the load, and some loads will need the support in in a little different location than others. For that reason, the Smart Stock device was invented as a tunable barrel pressure support. It uses a Nylon or Delryn support block in a channel in the stock under the barrel that is moved by a screw for adjustment. You find the best spot for the load you want to hunt with before your hunt and you are set to go.
 
http://classic.gunauction.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=7309186

I bid on and won this auction. Reloading forums had a field day at the builders expense. I fist went for the sum of the parts and then I considered the builder knew more about building an accurate rifle than they die.

I took it to the rang with 12 different loads of 10 rounds each with every type of case I had like new, once fired, necked up 270 Winchester cases, fired once cases, military cases etc..

All of the groups stayed together with no flyers, each group could be covered with a quarter, I decided I could not improve on accuracy so I applied the 'leaver policy' I lefter the way I founder.

F. Guffey
 
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I have a Mod 70 featherweight. It shoots 165gr quite well, but it shoots 180gr bullets REALLY well. This is my hunting weapon so I have my handloads for it, I don't shoot factory rounds. I use 180gr Nosler partitions which are a hunting bullet not a target bullet, but they are extremely accurate in my gun. I use IMR 4350 at a high charge wt. YMMV, but trying a heavier bullet may yield better accuracy.
 
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