Bad primers or incorrect headspacing.
XL7 .30-06 Range Report
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Hi, folks.
My XL7 had the problem of the left side stock putting pressure on the barrel, resulting in no better than 1,5-2 inch groups at 100 yards with my handloads. I carefully sanded the side of the stock so the barrel was free of side pressure, sitting correctly on the pressure pads. Today I took the rifle for a test drive.
I'm in short of brass right now and I heard some good things about Swedish made Norma brass, so I bought a box of Jaktmatch ammunition which are 150 grain full jacket flat base bullets loaded to 2772 fps.
The temperature was around twenty degrees with low wind. I shot about 30 rounds at the 100 yard range. Shooting was done in prone position off the sandbags in front and rear.
After 3 fouling shots off the clean barrel the XL7 started producing some of the best groupings I've ever shot with this rifle. Without much effort I could easily keep the 4 shot group size no bigger than 1 inch. There were no more of those annoying fliers I used to have before sanding the stock. I almost started to like this Norma ammunition until instead of going BANG the gun said CLICK ???. Waited for a good 30 seconds, inspected the cartridge and there was a clean firing pin strike mark on the primer. This happened 6 times randomly. Some of the cartridges had a correct firing pin mark on the primer and couple had very light mark. Could be I received a bad batch... I really hope it's not my XL7 doing some weird things again
Well, hoping not to find out any more dud's I proceeded to try out what the rifle is capable of and really putting my focus on the shots. Here is the result:
Sub-moa!
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Some other pics:
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My XL7 had the problem of the left side stock putting pressure on the barrel, resulting in no better than 1,5-2 inch groups at 100 yards with my handloads. I carefully sanded the side of the stock so the barrel was free of side pressure, sitting correctly on the pressure pads. Today I took the rifle for a test drive.
I'm in short of brass right now and I heard some good things about Swedish made Norma brass, so I bought a box of Jaktmatch ammunition which are 150 grain full jacket flat base bullets loaded to 2772 fps.
The temperature was around twenty degrees with low wind. I shot about 30 rounds at the 100 yard range. Shooting was done in prone position off the sandbags in front and rear.
After 3 fouling shots off the clean barrel the XL7 started producing some of the best groupings I've ever shot with this rifle. Without much effort I could easily keep the 4 shot group size no bigger than 1 inch. There were no more of those annoying fliers I used to have before sanding the stock. I almost started to like this Norma ammunition until instead of going BANG the gun said CLICK ???. Waited for a good 30 seconds, inspected the cartridge and there was a clean firing pin strike mark on the primer. This happened 6 times randomly. Some of the cartridges had a correct firing pin mark on the primer and couple had very light mark. Could be I received a bad batch... I really hope it's not my XL7 doing some weird things again
Well, hoping not to find out any more dud's I proceeded to try out what the rifle is capable of and really putting my focus on the shots. Here is the result:
Sub-moa!
Some other pics:
2 Dud's
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