62gr SS109 for plinking (again)

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Re: 62gr SS109 for plinking (again)

Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 09 Jul 2018, 7:56 pm

At one point the talk about 1.6-2 MOA accuracy and another more like 3-5 MOA so that will be interesting.

1.6-2 moa was around what i was getting. As i said i had a hard time doining anything better than the avove mentioned.
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Re: 62gr SS109 for plinking (again)

Post by sungazer » 10 Jul 2018, 6:11 pm

So I had a little play this afternoon with these guys. The results were not quite as bad as I was expecting. I dont like making excuses but I think my scope may have a little problem apart from being a Simmonds that I bought a long time ago and it is like looking through a fish bowl, I never knew how bad it was until getting a good scope.

I started with a load of 23.6 grn 8208 with them jammed 20 thou that group is pretty big and randomish looking at 1.8 inchs. I then moved to 20 thou off and apart from that one wayward shot it was looking pretty good at 0.5 without the stray and out to 1.2 with it. Then the next group is with the SS109 seated to the canular which puts them at 110 thou off for such a VLD shape I thought this may be ok but it has opened up, again at 1.2.
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I then shot some Super Roos to see how they compared, I am still looking for a load for them as well. From what I have shot with this Howa 1500 I think it is about a 1 MOA gun often grouping a few shots then popping a few others somewhere else. If it wasn't in a chassis I would think something is moving. (It may be a scope)
The Super Roos grouped best at about 20 thou off at 0.75 inch everything was shot at 120 yrds
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Re: 62gr SS109 for plinking (again)

Post by AZZA'S HJ47 » 10 Jul 2018, 10:46 pm

sungazer wrote:So I had a little play this afternoon with these guys. The results were not quite as bad as I was expecting. I dont like making excuses but I think my scope may have a little problem apart from being a Simmonds that I bought a long time ago and it is like looking through a fish bowl, I never knew how bad it was until getting a good scope.

I started with a load of 23.6 grn 8208 with them jammed 20 thou that group is pretty big and randomish looking at 1.8 inchs. I then moved to 20 thou off and apart from that one wayward shot it was looking pretty good at 0.5 without the stray and out to 1.2 with it. Then the next group is with the SS109 seated to the canular which puts them at 110 thou off for such a VLD shape I thought this may be ok but it has opened up, again at 1.2.
5823s.JPG


I then shot some Super Roos to see how they compared, I am still looking for a load for them as well. From what I have shot with this Howa 1500 I think it is about a 1 MOA gun often grouping a few shots then popping a few others somewhere else. If it wasn't in a chassis I would think something is moving. (It may be a scope)
The Super Roos grouped best at about 20 thou off at 0.75 inch everything was shot at 120 yrds
5830s.JPG



Seeing this has given me some more hope that the seating depth is going to have a major factor with accuracy. Looks like ill be loading up some more to test :drinks:
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