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portable tables are usually terrible and that's enough by itself to screw you up. None i have ever used is stable nor do they allow you to get squared up behind the gun. Leadsleds are no better.It’s entirely possible the issue is me.
I do wish I had a tall bipod… I have been shooting off of a portable shootings table, and bags… I’d rather shoot in the prone off the ground with a bipod.
I can tell you I know how to use bags and minimally influence the rifle, firing in the pause between breaths with a preference for the exhale, trigger pull is clean far as the whole dime on the muzzle thing every time I used to do that back in the day but I can recheck though this trigger is miles better than anything I used to use.
I MAY move my scope back a hair depending on how things are in the prone. I haven’t used a bipod or lead sled mostly because I’m trying to shoot as if I were shooting off a pack in the field.
For the purpose of eliminating myself though I can see if my buddy will let me borrow his sled. I will say I’m not a big fan of the reward blast of the muzzle brake. I have to make myself not close my eye as the trigger brakes and that’s frustrating and annoying. Enough so I have been thinking about taking it off.
I thought 42.2gr of Varget was meant to be the magic number, 168gr or 175gr.Damn.
Damn straight way to treat a guy sir.
If he doesn't send it in, go to Sleeping giant brass company and get either LC LR 308 cases or Norma and then load 41.7 gr 4064 under a 175 SMK loaded to saami length spec.
If this doesn't shoot well in your gun with multiple known good shooters then it is absolutely your gun.
But did you shoot a .4” group at 278 yards in a 20 mph crosswind^ I remember the last time I hit that 800 yard barrier. I was blasting half-MOA groups out to 799 yards...
Scooted a step back just to get an even number, fired, no impact. Fired again, no impact.
All of a sudden my neighbors cow came out of the woods limping from an obvious gunshot wound to the foot. She was at least 25* off my line of fire and only 425 yards away. It's amazing what those 168s will do once you hit 800 yards and the accuracy comes apart...
But did you shoot a .4” group at 278 yards in a 20 mph crosswind
Mike for the Win. I wonder what kinda voodoo magic you could work on my daisy red Ryder?Send me your rifle let me look the fking thing over I'll shoot it and tell you my professional opinion what's going on...
If I have to make a small adjustment I won't charge you...
If there's a serious issue I'll advise you
Mike R
OP TAKE THIS MAN UP ON HIS OFFER!!!!!!!Send me your rifle let me look the fking thing over I'll shoot it and tell you my professional opinion what's going on...
If I have to make a small adjustment I won't charge you...
If there's a serious issue I'll advise you
Mike R
I PM'ed him.OP TAKE THIS MAN UP ON HIS OFFER!!!!!!!
This is the offer of a lifetime.
One day I will own one of your rifles Mike.
Because I designed the Tac Ops platform's around the Fed Match 168 B.T.H.P Because 98% of all the law enforcement agencies deploy and shoot people dead with that round...
Mike R
I'll DM / PM you. I'd absolutely love to do this. Just to make it clear because of something you said, this rifle didn't come from Mike.OP How close are you to Columbus GA? If you want to bring it down to Ft Benning and shoot it from 100-1000 with 168s, m118lr, ab39, and multiple other brands/weights I’ll gladly bring you out to our schoolhouse range and we can do some further “testing” before sending it off if you’d like. Won’t cost anything and we have several very high level shooters both real world and competition aspects at work. Never heard of a rifle from Mike with these issues or seen them in the one I owned (selling it was the biggest mistake lol). PM me if it’s something that interests you. Can also run you through an in depth cleaning class with an AMU gunsmith as well
Just as in a few minutes ago came over to my buddies house who has a fat max or knock off of low torque range torque wrench, took the actions screws out to make sure they’re to spec (5NM - 44.25 inch/lb) and well I think that was at least A problem because they were so lose I don’t know how they weren’t walking out.Updates???
We are eagerly waitingJust as in a few minutes ago came over to my buddies house who has a fat max or knock off of low torque range torque wrench, took the actions screws out to make sure they’re to spec (5NM - 44.25 inch/lb) and well I think that was at least A problem because they were so lose I don’t know how they weren’t walking out.
So got some more hand loads (178gr ELD-M over 40gr of Varget a very mild load), - few left over 175gr FGMM, and my buddy bought some M118 so I’ll try that too.
Cleaned the copper out of the barrel since last time as well. So I’ll update later today how it groups.
We are eagerly waiting.
I'm still disappointed that the rifle didn't get to Mike R.
With it shooting like that, you just need to adjust your zero and shoot the crap out of it. No complaints.I sent him a DM, he never sent the info to ship it. No biggie no one’s obligated to help here.
Any way, ELD-M’s are going much slower I’m sure than the M118 or FGMM since they’re 2600fps average vs my hand load, which I didn’t chronograph but I think 40gr was at or below 2400fps. They shoot to the same point far as windage but tend to impact a half inch lower.
Here’s the FGMM and a M118 group. Img_5989 is the M118 the FGMM was a 3 shot group while the M118 was a 5 shot group.
Edit: not sure why the pictures aren't showing like usual.![]()