Well after having loaded up a really good load in my 22-250 Rem. 700 VLS I decided I'd do my old man a favor and load his up.
I found some magic at a HOT, EXCESSIVE LOAD of 34.8 grains of Varget underneath a Hornady 60 gr. SP that oughtta work great for yotes, perhaps whitetails and varmints of all kinds. I was getting 3 -shot groups at 0.926 inches with the best two going into 0.26 inches. There were more accurate loads that went under 0.4 but I wanted something really hot since he might go back to his one-gun days and break it out for whitetails. This is a beyond MAX loads which was loaded incrementally and carefully examining cases, primers and the usual precautions but found this load to be safe with velocities averaging 3460 fps. Compare this to the 3100 fps my 700 vls likes and it's a pretty big difference. Maybe I'll have to give it a try sometime but why mess with a good thing!
Here's just a typical group that I fired for sight - in at 100 yards from a very fouled barrel, still warm on a 88 degree day last week.
Last edited on Mon Jul 18th, 2005 02:59 AM by The_Mountaineer
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