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Wrangler5 · June 2, 2013, 02:39 PM

My rifle is an equally lowly Marlin, but it too loves the 60g VMAX. Haven't tried Varget yet, but the 11-shot ladder I did with BLC-2 put 10 of the 11 shots into one ragged hole that measured 0.544 MOA CTC at 100 yards. (Shot #10 was outside the group, and opened it up to 0.909 MOA.) This was with powder charges from 25.0 to 27.0 grains, which gave velocities from 2807 to 3060 fps. Never seen anything like that kind of accuracy over that wide a velocity range. Later 3 shot groups with 26.4 and 26.6g were under 0.35 MOA, on either side of 3000 fps.

Too bad I'm down to less than a hundred of 'em. That's why I'm going to work on a load for the 62g FMJs - I don't expect they'll ever make anything like that kind of group, but at least I'll have something to shoot.

June 2, 2013, 02:39 PM	#6
Wrangler5 Senior Member Join Date: September 18, 2005 Location: Missouri Posts: 326	My rifle is an equally lowly Marlin, but it too loves the 60g VMAX. Haven't tried Varget yet, but the 11-shot ladder I did with BLC-2 put 10 of the 11 shots into one ragged hole that measured 0.544 MOA CTC at 100 yards. (Shot #10 was outside the group, and opened it up to 0.909 MOA.) This was with powder charges from 25.0 to 27.0 grains, which gave velocities from 2807 to 3060 fps. Never seen anything like that kind of accuracy over that wide a velocity range. Later 3 shot groups with 26.4 and 26.6g were under 0.35 MOA, on either side of 3000 fps. Too bad I'm down to less than a hundred of 'em. That's why I'm going to work on a load for the 62g FMJs - I don't expect they'll ever make anything like that kind of group, but at least I'll have something to shoot.