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21" #1 Douglas by IT&D. Mounted it up in the same stock that the boys' .223AI was in. It's the same build, but with an extra inch of barrel, just because...


Talley X-Lows and a VX2 1-4x20. I don't have enough room for the BC caps, so I guess I'll be looking for some Alumina caps. The X-Lows really seem to help the kiddos get set up behind the scope quicker.




Loaded up 80 TTSXs and made it to the range today. Seated to fit the mag box puts me .04 off the lands, so that's where I started. 24.0 was my starting load and this was the first group fired out of it. I worked up to 25.9 but accuracy never got better, the rest of the groups averaged about 2".

I'm at 2780 with 24.0 grains, which should be plenty fast enough for what we'll be doing. We'll be leaving for youth season in two weeks, so I doubt I'll do any more tinkering for now. Just load up about 50 of these and see how bloody we can get it this fall.