45.5grs varget, under a 168gr. matchking seated to 2.805" oa. has been the load I've shot sense I put the rifle together. It always proved to be a .75-1.0" load so I loaded 400 and never chased any other loads. I only have a few of those left so I prepped some brass to load up some more and decided to play with the seating depth a little.
Here is before and after.


I guess I'm done playing. I'm setting outside the gun shop waiting to buy more 168's

Wow that is a pretty awesome group! Any worries about the POI shifting down almost 2"?

No worries on the poi shift. I twisted the turret down between groups and just went too far.

Better bullets in the wind at longer distances, but I was never unhappy wiht how 168s seemed to mostly want to shoot.

Nice. Playing with OAL is worth the time.

That was about the last tweak I did to my loads... would take what I got the best results out of and then seat 22 each at different enough depths and shoot 600 yard matches with them to see if anything proved better.

Dayam. Very nice.

42.0 IMR4895
2.83"
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