I appreciate everyone's input here. I agree range time will help, but my frustration is in trying to work up good loads for this new rifle. It's sometimes hard to know if that 1 1/2 or 2" group is the load, or the shooter. I'm not new to shooting or reloading, and as a general rule I won't keep a gun that I can't get consistent 1" or less groups with. There have been very few though that have gone down the road for that particular reason. The last one was a 742 for example. And I have 2 safes full of rifles that will shoot that well from 17 Remington through 7RM.
I'm defiantly going to try some of these ideas though so thank you.
