Warrick wrote:Pretty disappointing day at the range with the new set up. I think it was me more than the gun, I just have a lot of rust to knock off from the years of shooting very little.
It took me a few rounds to get on target and a total of 5 to zero at 100 yards. I was able to shoot four 3 shot groups.
1.468
1.667
2.450
2.511
I should have stuck with my plan to adjust my rear action screw torque setting, but I was a little thrown off by what I felt as poor groupings and kinda thought I could shot my way out of it lol. The best two groups were the last two with cooling time between each group. I only had 20 rounds to play with so at the end of the day I was left disappointed and wondering if I tightened the rear action screw down tighter if it would have brought the groups tighter. I set my front at 35 in lbs and the rear at 20 inch lbs.
To be honest. Whether those were your first accuracy run groups or ones a thousand rounds down the road. You're going to be hard pressed to do much better than that and this is important:
Those are very good groups for this caliber! If you run them over a chrony and maybe you did, the velocity SD tells the tale. I shoot in disciplines where action torque factors in, but somehow, I suspect this caliber is less sensitive to those kind of influences. I could be wrong however.
Looks like you're off to a good start there.
Hoot