On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:23:38 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote:
"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 May 2010 19:29:58 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:
Don Foreman wrote:
I promised to report results on this activity. I'm pleased with the
results. The accuracy of a decent but inexpensive rifle was
significantly improved with one of the several loads tried today.
There were also some loads (different powder) it didn't shoot well at
all, though it has never shot any load so badly that it'd miss COM on
a deer at 200 yards, which is too far to be shooting deer with a .243.
I think after bedding it is now accurate enough to be used on varmints
out to 300 yards.
http://members.goldengate.net/dforem..._rifle_result/
That's a big dime!
Or one accurate piece...
The holes really are 6mm dia, not .50 cal. :)
That group wouldn't rate a sneer among bench rest competitors whose
multi-thousand dollar 6mmPPC rifles (with similarly pricey scopes)
routinely punch 0.200" groups at 200 yards. 6mmPPC is ballistically
very similar to .243 Winchester and shoots the same bullets but the
rifles are hand-crafted to very exacting standards, using bull barrels
maybe 1-1/2" in diameter. There were two of those at the range today.
Their owners weren't shooting them anywhere near that well today but I
don't doubt that the rifles are capable.
But I feel pretty good about how my little off-the-rack
consumer-grade Savage, bought from floor stock at The General Store in
Osakis, MN, seems to work after bedding it and doing a bit of load
development. Oh, and moving up to a $195 scope.
Not sure what you meant by "pillar bedding," but from what I've read and one
of my gun smith buddies says you can dramatically improve most all of those
inexpensive bolt guns by fully bedding them about an inch or so past the
chamber, and then floating the barrel.
That's what I did. Two metal pillars are epoxied into the stock. The
action is mounted on those pillars. The stock is relieved elsewhere
so wood does not touch metal anywhere except perhaps under the tang.
Then epoxy is applied in the gap so support on the action and behind
the recoil lug is uniform. The barrel is free-floating.