Well here she is
As you can see it's now sporting a Choate Ultimate sniper stock, the original HS Precision would have needed too much material removing to allow the barrel to float and Chris had this kicking about.
I took it to Barnwell on Monday and carefully ran it in as per the instuction from Trueflite and then I chucked a few loads down to see what it would do. I only had some 175 SMKs so I made up a few loads with Varget 44, 45 and 46 grains and it showed that the 46 was around the best (as had been with the old barrel).
Having done a bit of research in the run up to it arriving, 200 and 210 SMK's have had a few mentions so I picked up some 210's yesterday (couldn't find any 200's)
Someone had mentioned late last night that Vit 150/550 is the better powder for heavier rounds but I only had some N140 so struggling to find any load data for the 210 I plumped for starting at 42 and working up in .5 steps to 43.5 just to see what occured.
Well 42.5 grains provided me with this 3 shot group at 100 yards
All in all I'm a very happy chappy at the moment, I'm down to Bisley in a few weeks shooting 1000 yards so I'll have to wait and see how it performs at proper manly distances.
Alan
