Chasing what Bill Alexander calls "the accuracy Demon", I had a brain flash this week and decided to skip the neck turning and just load some test rounds with my most-promising charge of 4064 under 175-gr SMKs and see what happens.
Been using WLRs for more than six months in various tests...I had been a CCI guy for years, had great results with them when I started shooting Highpower, but added Winchester to my list back during the FIRST primer shortage only because they were available.
My new barrel don't like 'em, at least with this load and probably with everything else other than 46.0 of Varget with 155-gr bullets. Both the CCI 200s and the Fed 210s grouped about HALF the size of the WLR loads.
BTW, Hornady's 155-gr A-Max match loads went 2811 fps at had an ES of only 3.9 (sd of 1.6!!!!) in the five rounds I fired. Didn't settle the rifle right on the rear bag (a towel) and had one flyer that put the group to 1.375 inch. The other four were 13/16ths. It's also a lot cheaper than FGMM locally.
Been using WLRs for more than six months in various tests...I had been a CCI guy for years, had great results with them when I started shooting Highpower, but added Winchester to my list back during the FIRST primer shortage only because they were available.
My new barrel don't like 'em, at least with this load and probably with everything else other than 46.0 of Varget with 155-gr bullets. Both the CCI 200s and the Fed 210s grouped about HALF the size of the WLR loads.
BTW, Hornady's 155-gr A-Max match loads went 2811 fps at had an ES of only 3.9 (sd of 1.6!!!!) in the five rounds I fired. Didn't settle the rifle right on the rear bag (a towel) and had one flyer that put the group to 1.375 inch. The other four were 13/16ths. It's also a lot cheaper than FGMM locally.
