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Picher · July 1, 2014, 06:13 AM

Guess I found the magic seating stem position for the rifle this week. It's now shooting several different loads/bullets/powders to nearly the same POI at 100 yards.

Best three-shot group, using Sierra 52 grain HPBT Match bullets, was 0.2", appearing as two intersecting shots. Worst was a 0.9" group, using 60 grain Nosler Partitions. Not wonderful, but could easily handle the large varmints as it printed to the same POI as my lighter varmint loads.

I bedded and re-crowned a friends Rem 700 "Sportsman" .223 Rem, last week and he shot some sub 1/2" groups with it yesterday, despite his vision problems.

July 1, 2014, 06:13 AM	#3
Picher Senior Member Join Date: December 14, 2004 Location: Maine Posts: 3,694	Guess I found the magic seating stem position for the rifle this week. It's now shooting several different loads/bullets/powders to nearly the same POI at 100 yards. Best three-shot group, using Sierra 52 grain HPBT Match bullets, was 0.2", appearing as two intersecting shots. Worst was a 0.9" group, using 60 grain Nosler Partitions. Not wonderful, but could easily handle the large varmints as it printed to the same POI as my lighter varmint loads. I bedded and re-crowned a friends Rem 700 "Sportsman" .223 Rem, last week and he shot some sub 1/2" groups with it yesterday, despite his vision problems.