I have to give a shout out to Jered at APA for putting my new 6XC tube on. He did the original build in 260 and it shot lights out!
So I headed up to his shop mid day just to drop it off. We talked for a little while and shot the crap just about everything. It started getting a little late and was about to head to the house when he asked if was willing to stay late and we would put it together tonight. Lets just say I didn't give him a chance to back out of that one!
Well, long story short I rolled out of there at 1:30am with a complete rifle ready to go. After a few days I got around to doing some load testing. I tried varget, H414, RL19, and IMR4350. I can't get my hands on H4350 or I would have tried it as well. The IMR4350 is what the doc ordered. I ended up running 41.2 with a 105 hybrid with very little pressure signs and getting 3160fps. So last Saturday I was able to take it out to distance to see what I needed to tweak to fine tune and only loaded up 20rds. Dialed in for zero and had to tweak it a little and then shot out to 330yds. Elevation was good so then I took it out to 465 and the elevation was still good there as well. So I take it out to 885yds and shot a three round group and was a little low and a little left. I shot another three shot group at .1mil to the right putting me just about right as far as windage goes. Then the last two rds I dialed in to center. The first 3 shot group ended up 1.1" and the 2nd 3 shot group was 1.83". That being said that put me around 75 rds thru the barrel and this was still for load development. I don't think that I have to do any further testing (grin!).
Thanks again Jered for doing what you do to make sure we are up and running and building sick ass sticks like this!!!
So I headed up to his shop mid day just to drop it off. We talked for a little while and shot the crap just about everything. It started getting a little late and was about to head to the house when he asked if was willing to stay late and we would put it together tonight. Lets just say I didn't give him a chance to back out of that one!
Well, long story short I rolled out of there at 1:30am with a complete rifle ready to go. After a few days I got around to doing some load testing. I tried varget, H414, RL19, and IMR4350. I can't get my hands on H4350 or I would have tried it as well. The IMR4350 is what the doc ordered. I ended up running 41.2 with a 105 hybrid with very little pressure signs and getting 3160fps. So last Saturday I was able to take it out to distance to see what I needed to tweak to fine tune and only loaded up 20rds. Dialed in for zero and had to tweak it a little and then shot out to 330yds. Elevation was good so then I took it out to 465 and the elevation was still good there as well. So I take it out to 885yds and shot a three round group and was a little low and a little left. I shot another three shot group at .1mil to the right putting me just about right as far as windage goes. Then the last two rds I dialed in to center. The first 3 shot group ended up 1.1" and the 2nd 3 shot group was 1.83". That being said that put me around 75 rds thru the barrel and this was still for load development. I don't think that I have to do any further testing (grin!).
Thanks again Jered for doing what you do to make sure we are up and running and building sick ass sticks like this!!!
