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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: finnman on July 04, 2017, 02:58:09 PM

Title: When factory ammunition works!
Post by: finnman on July 04, 2017, 02:58:09 PM: When have you had facotory ammo shoot better than your hand loads? I have been hand loading several rifles for a few years now, 15 or better, always get my loads to shoot well enough to feel confident to 400 yards. I like the selections I can make for some calibers you cannot buy ammo for, like my 350 R.E.M. Mag, the .284 Win, .358 Win., 7x57, 35 Whelen.
So I have a used 7MM Weatherby Mag, I have 3 boxes of Weatherby factory 160 grain Nosler Partitions, 3,200 fps at the muzzle, good enough for me! I take it to the range and shoot up 10 rounds getting it to paper, I settle in at 100 yards on sand bags, Zeiss HD5 set at 10 power, breath and squeeze off 3 rounds, the 15 power binos show me what I could only hope for! Best group I have ever shot with any rifle using factory ammo. I took it home and added the tape to it and it's at 0.687", not shabby for a caliber people say is inaccurate. At this time, yes, I will be sticking with the factory loads!
Title: Re: When factory ammunition works!
Post by: Magnum_Willys on July 04, 2017, 04:03:29 PM: Sometimes a batch of factory load's speed matches the sweet spot of your rifle and you get good groups. Next batch might not - better by another box from the same batch for backup. I've had good luck with weatherby ammo because its generally tuned to match a specific weatherby rifle's sweet spot though they all differ a little.
Title: Re: When factory ammunition works!
Post by: thinkingman on July 04, 2017, 05:16:37 PM: Nice thing about my Tikkas, they just don't care.
Anything is MOA or better.
Title: Re: When factory ammunition works!
Post by: finnman on July 04, 2017, 06:03:05 PM: The best group I have ever shot before this was with a Tikka in .338 win mag with factory ammo! They do shoot....there just not a Weatherby! 😜