it's a nice drizzly morning and I've taken the Axis rifle that
we've been putting together and we're out of the 600 yard range again it's the same one
red castle and the wind is very low today but it is from kind of different
angles it was coming from the southwest earlier now it's coming from what
appears to be the Northeast so there's a little bit of wind to play with but what
I did is I just drag this thing out to see what kind of a five-shot group we
could get out of it so everything is the same I have the same dope on the scope
here ammo is the exact same load I'm firing those eld match bullets the
only change that I made as I did put it on a bipod here so I can double eyes the
bipod off my 243 it's just a a cheap Caldwell bipod that I use from Harmon
ting but yeah that's it put five rounds through this thing and see what it does
let's take a look okay so here we go full-size human silhouette 600 yards and
I think these are my first two shots I think I was under estimating the wind at
this point I remember making a correction of another half milliradian
for these right here so you can see that the horizontal at least on these three
is really tight and the vertical stringing is pretty extreme
I had the crosshair just you know right on with this line right here so I'm
guessing that what happened here I don't really think it's down to the barrel
harmonics or anything I do think I have a good load basically worked up but I
think there may have been some deviations in the powder charge those of
you that were making fun of me for using Ally balance scale there you go you're
vindicated I think if I get my father-in-law's RCBS I can probably do a
better job I think that's what it is we'll see it's got some kick yeah I know
people don't believe me it's a little more than 123 Wow
that's a what is that a hundred fifty grade 162 dang yeah I don't know about
you I had to write it a little bit higher on my shoulder I mean it and that
could have just been the way I was you know just prone maybe that's the way it
was I think it's the shape of the stock but it tends to bite more in an odd way
I don't explain it it seems like the heel tends to kick more than the top
yeah I don't know if I make sense or not but it tend to really kick more from the
bottom
that's a sweet gun though but tomorrow through it the the trigger very smooth
had a nice clean break
all right I'm pretty sure that targets been talking some smack
you