I picked up another 221FB from a member here back in the summer. The rifle shot the factory accutip ammo great, but was giving me some grief at the loading bench. I tried v-max and varmageddons of the 40 and 50g weight and lil gun powder. I was determined to find a load within those parameters because I had so much on hand. I ended switching from a Winchester primer to a CCI BR4 and boy did that change things. We ended up with the 40g varmageddon and 15g even of Lil gun.
Every 3 shot group at 100 looks like this. Warm barrel or cold bore it does not matter it is boringly consistent.
Out at 200 yards the groups open up to this. Roughly 1.25-1.5. Still not too shabby from a bone stock 700 LVSF. I may do some more load work in the future with RL7 anda differnt bullet but I'm totally content in running this for this year.