bigfellascott wrote:scotty87 wrote:I'm pretty pleased with my Howa .308 now, had its first shoot in its new bedded boyds furniture today and i'm pretty happy with the results.
got it shooting just over 1" groups at 100yrds with reloads, off of a front rest only so a little wobbly, I reckon with a rear sandbag and a bit more practice on the trigger groups will tighten to under an inch.
Some further attention is needed, I plan to replace the boyds recoil pad with a limb saver or pachmayr pad as the shoulder was left stinging after only 40 rounds of my 165gr reloads, and i've got plenty of padding in that area too!. I'll probably ship my trigger off to the ebay guy as well, as I found I couldn't get a consistent break/feel of it today.
The trigger job should improve those results - is the barrel fully free floating in the Boyds (they usually require a bit of sanding to ensure plenty of gap. ( piece of dowel or broom handle or something that is roughly the size of the barrel wrapped in sandpaper works fine and is quick to do and then a quick seal with some clear.
Yeah it's floated down to where the bedding starts in front of the recoil lug, gonna play with seating depth at 42.6gr of AR2208 pushing hornady 165gr BTSP.