Originally Posted by pullit
auk1124
What have you decided, is/was it your load or the scope? I learned a long time ago to ONLY change one thing at a time. In reading your post, (and I may be wrong) it sounds like you changed your load and your scope. Either way, your groups look good.


I repeated my 105 grain loads with a different scope - similar groups. (I didn't bother taking another photo of them with the different scope). At that point I switched to trying the 95 SSTs. For whatever reason, the hornady 105s just aren't doing great with my build.

Have some Berger 88 grain test loads to try next, soon as I get to the range again.

Edit to add, that is probably being too harsh on the 105s. That max load of 2520 is a decent one inch or so group with the 105s. I would hunt deer around here with that one without a second's hesitation. I have this build set up as a range toy though, and will keep looking for range toy loads.


Last edited by auk1124; 09/22/21.