Good idea.
My rifle is a 700 barreled action put together by Longshot Rifles Inc and wears a sendero-contour Rock Creek 22.5" barrel with 1-8" twist. It's bolted in a Mag-Pul stock with alloy chassis, as the adjustable LOP and small grip diameter lets my daughter shoot it too. I did have Gre-Tan bush the bolt, as the firing pin hole was a bit sloppy and primers looked ugly from the start. Only shot one bullet for results, being the 129gr LRAB that I wanted to hunt with last year. It hits lands at 2.750" OAL in my chamber.
***ALWAYS WORK UP***
129gr LRAB (.015 off lands)
CCI 450
Lapua case
RL15 powder
37.0gr - 2,715fps
37.5gr - 2,790 fps
38.0gr - 2,800fps
38.5gr - 2,810 fps
129gr LRAB (.015 off lands)
CCI 450
Lapua case
RL17 powder
41.0gr - 2,840fps
41.7gr - 2,900fps
42.2gr - 2,925fps
I shoot the load in bold print as my hunting load, as it had the speed I was looking for and was easy to get half MOA out of. Several of the loads shot around half MOA during load development, so I never played with seating depth. I'm probably sending the barreled action off to Kampfeld soon for some heavy flutes and a bob back to 21", just to make things better balanced and more maneuverable in a box blind. 2,850fps with 129/130gr stuff should still be easy enough.
