Well, I finally bought one of these

http://www.remington.com/rifles/bolt-action/model-700/model-700-long-range

and a SWFA 10X SS arrived yesterday so I hit the range early this morning.
I replaced the factory trigger with a Timney, otherwise it's a stock rifle.

Here's the first target and I'm pretty pleased with it. I'm shooting the 210 Berger VLD Hunting.

The lone bullet hole near the center is the first shot after bore sighting at 100 yards. It was easy to dial in with the SWFA so my first groups were the bottom four groups. Each group was 4 shots.

I'm not sure what happened on the second group. I was probably not behind the gun right. I cleaned the rifle after that group.

So left to right on the bottom was 59,60,61 and 62grs. H4831
Velocity was 2670fps with the 62grs.

The top 2 groups were 59 and 60grs Rel. 22
Velocity for the 60gr load was 2670fps also. I'm sure the Rel. 22 loads would shoot better but these were some left over loads from another rifle and were set way back off the lands.

The bottom groups....my COAL was 3.475 which is about .010 off the lands.

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Terry