I tried to chrono it last time I was out and wasn’t able to get a reading. I had to walk mine in out to 300 and then adjust my BC and velocity to match up to where I was at.
I was at 14mils for CCI SV and 12.5mils for Fed AutoMatch, they grouped best out of my last test using:
Aguila Super Extra Lead - 2” group at 100
Aguila Super Extra plated - 3” group at 100
Blazer - 4” groups at 100
Federal HV Match - 4” groups at 100
Federal Champ VP - complete garbage 8”+
Rem GB VP - complete garbage 8”+
CCI SV - 1” at 100
Fed AM - 1.5” at 100
What I found is the higher velocity stuff doesn’t group well at 100 for me and I didn’t try it out further and to stay away from plated based on the Aguila results. Also found to stay away from value pack or bucket of bullets as they suck.
I went ahead and bedded my Ruger Precision this week and am going to put a match grade barrel on it. Think I’ll call it good where it ends up at. From everything I’ve read the match barrel will mostly only remove the flyers and produce slightly tighter groups but the factory barrel is pretty accurate except it always has a few random flyers. Also the first cold bore shot is always off 2” to the left and low at 100.
I’m also going to stick to ammo in the 1200 - 1000 ft/s range. I’ll test the Blazer and Fed HV next time I’m out at 300 to see if it tightens up further out but I’m just not sold that if it is crap at 100 and in why keep shooting it. During the ammo scare a few years ago I unfortunately invested in a large number of Fed Champ VP and Rem GB. Not sure if they are worth just shooting to work in the barrel or not.
Also my Spartan Precision bipod mount just came so no more shooting off a bag. I’ll wait till the new barrel comes to shoot the new stuff, next weekend I should be breaking it in.
I also picked up 500 of the CCI SV’s, at the same price as Fed Automatch per bullet it was a no brained for how well it’s shooting out of the factory barrel.
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