I worked hard, Hard, HARD to get a honey load for my Rem 600 Carbine. 150's, 165's, 180's, 4064, BLC-2, Varget,, 4320...Nothing seemed to work worth a flip. Mucho money & time spent and wasted. Finally just did some stock work, free floated the barrel, glass bedded the receiver and finally got it to group instead of spray. Final load was a 180 gr Nosler BT, 40.5gr of RL-15, with Win brass & primers. 7/8" groups @ 2450fps out of a 18 1/5" barrel.
I put one in on the front left shoulder of a 140# 9pt buck, at 125 yds, and pulled the bullet out of it's right ham, just under the bulge in it's hide. 4 more went down with a single shot, dead , Flop.
It's a d
mn good load for a carbine at shorter ranges, but I retired the rifle and went to a 7mm/08 when I moved to a different state where the hunting conditions were different..
