Blaser Tactical 2 load development

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Hey Guys,

I know I am about 5 years late to the party with the Blaser, but after years of waiting I finally was able to get my hands on one of my "holy trinity" guns (being a poor college kid sucks). Naturally, the first thing I did was start to develop some loads for it. I had some Varget, BLC-2, and XBR laying around, so I loaded some pills up moving in 0.5 grain increments to see what gave me the best results. The results weren't anything phenomenal, but with many groups being 1/2 MOA or less I was plenty happy. Here are the targets


Given the results and the amount of each type of powder I had on hand, I decided to play around with 40 grains of XBR and see how they did at 100 and 200 yards. Today was my off day, so I packed all my stuff up a headed to the range. There was a slight breeze with gusts up to 10mph at times, but nothing too bad. At 100 yards I got a repeat performance of my previous range session.


So I decided to back it up to 200 and these are the results I got.


(Cont. next post)

 

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And the second 200 yard group.


The one with the "X" through it was from a previous string where I was sighting in my FNAR with a new scope (not so lucky with that one).

Anyways, I am happy with my groupings and I think they'll only get better with more time behind the gun. Now I just need to decide between the 300 Win Mag or the 338 lapua barrel.


Specs on the gun are:
Blaser Tactical 2
Vortex PST 4-15X50 FFP mil/mil
Weaver high rings

And the load specs:
Federal Brass
210M primers
168/175gr SMK and 178gr Amax
40.0 gr XBR 8208
2.800 OAL for smks and 2.810 for Amax

 

[clayne_b]

Looks like you got it tuned in good, Now get out and stretch its legs! That's a monster brake on that thing. Looks good over all.