Accuracy Next Steps

[Zombie Steve]

Then seat the bullet 1/3 of the way, rotate it 1/3, seat another 1/3, ect, ect,ect.

But if you run your loaded ammo over a concentricity gauge and have minimal runout, you dont need to do it.

I have a concentricity gauge, but I still do this out of habit.

[spqrzilla]

If your Savage bolt gun is a basic 110 action off the shelf gun, you are probably getting pretty close to the accuracy limits of the gun at 0.5 to 0.8 MOA frankly.

You may wish to spend some time on rifle accurizing basics too. Action to stock fit, verify that the barrel is free floated, experiment with a bit of barrel tension, etc.

[IceAxe]

You also may want trim the excess material from the flash hole inside the case. The flash hole is punched during manufacture and this material can remain in the case causing a shadow during ignition. I bought a thousand of the LC brass that Midway had on sale and found about 1 in 10 had significant material inside.

[IceAxe]

I should also mention that the material left inside from manufacturing the flash hole will effect case volume, which in turn effects pressure, velocity etc.

[Delfuego]

-Get the Pope to bless the rounds

I did this and got minimal improvement...

I think .5-.8 moa is pretty darn good for a factory rifle, better than mine. I also haven't had the chance to shoot any of my reloads yet.

[Madusa]

Ok, so I've done quite a bit of OCW testing with several bullets and powders and determined that my Savage .223 with a 22 inch barrel likes 25.4 grains of H335 under 60 gr Hornady soft points, seated to an OAL of 2.245. All testing was done with general Lake City brass, (not sorted by year or weight etc.) trimmed to 1.750 with Wolf .223 primers.

I have not yet measured the chamber depth to rifling but I do have the equipment to do so.

Question is: What are my next steps to further work on accuracy for this load, in this rifle? What steps are most likely to produce better accuracy?
Seating Depth, sort the brass by weight, other?

Thanx

Sam

Don't forget, Practice. cheek weld, trigger pull, mirage, doping wind