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I am glad you have had good experience with them. I have not, at least in the last ten or so I have played with. I do have one Sendero I bought about 20 years ago that has had nothing done to it and is a tack driver, but that is the only one. Needless to say i am pretty satisfied with the rifle now. Cant complain about the groups with the Fusion after the Tubbs treatment.
I may have to try the 760, that is one that I have not.
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Bought a 243 ADL at Academy Sports a couple weeks ago. Tried getting it to shoot in the factory stock but it was pretty inconsistent with about everything. I decided that it needed a stock and I had an B+C stock that came off another rifle, so I bought some BDL bottom metal and put it together. Torqued stock to 50inch pnds and have been trying to get it to shoot my hand loads. I have tried Varget and IMR 4350 with 70gr Speer TNT's. I have used various charges in both powders, all the way from middle of road to max in .5gr increments. I have had it shoot some great groups here and there, then when I load more of the same powder charge, it will not duplicate. I have handloaded for alot of rifles and I usually load to max COL and usually find something that works so I have been seating them to 2.710. Any ideas or suggestions would be great. Getting frustrated a little with this rifle. No apparent stringing, just patterns and occasionally a crazy unexplained flyer? Stock was bedded for a different rifle but seems to fit ok.
Thanks
HeavyBarrel I had one of those I bought from Walmart. Mine was a youth model with 20" barrel. I changed the stock to a full sized one bought in the classifieds. I lightened the trigger to 3#, added a 3-9 VX1 and floated the barrel with the bread wrapper deal. Called it my poor man's mountain rifle. That rifle would shoot 1/2" groups with 70gr TNT's and 4064. Never could get 100gr bullets to shoot quite that well but had a couple loads that were 1" or better consistently. The rifle itself was pretty light and took good form to shoot great groups but was very capable.
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Confirmed again that Fusion is the ammo for this rifle with a nice 3/4" 3 shot group this evening. Prior to Tubbs treatment the Hornady superformance was 1 moa and it didn't change. Tested it also. The gun is at least a keeper now!
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