Accuracy is phenomenal for a little 40 grain bullet. Factory ammo seems nice on paper (numbers wise) but is actually anemic, and I handload for it now. I had issues with 27 grain factory stuff and 36g varmint grenades. Using Autocomp and once fired brass, it is a fairly easy setup to reload for in a bolt gun, no need to worry about that laquer coating the fn guns need to survive. With a 40g a or z max, I have hit pretty decent out to 300, 400 starts to get sketchy. 250 and in, I can own it if I want to. I had some group pics, I’ll see if I can dig them up from when I started messing with this thing 6 or 7 years ago. The manufacturers tat started and bailed on this little cartridge just didn’t want to invest the time and money into it to make it run right I’m assuming it was probably mixed up with a lot of feedback that said this was a useless endeavor and it didn’t make sense. From a manufacturing standpoint, they were probably right to not invest and possibly lose big money. For me, it was a conversation with a good buddy that started the snowball. He and I both built one, his on a model seven and mine on a 700. His is pretty pimp and shoots real well also. He only shoots factory ammo, so that might be where I’d get a leg up.
One pic of a group I had saved on the phone. I have most of the build process pics somewhere. This group is probably around 10 shots at apprx 80 yards?
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