new savage model 12 range report

cool thanks. now I'm going to start to look for reloading Eqipment and info :eek: but I'll start a new thread if I need help with that
 
Hey folks: I myself have a savage model 12 precision long range varminter in the 22-250 with a leoupold 4.5 - 25 on burris rings with the varminter reticules, and the accutrigger (love it) Am just getting it broke in. At this point I am shooting about a .21 MOA but that is with weighed brass. primer pockets reamed inside and cleaned outside, strict attention paid to length of brass and bullets seated just touching the lands. loading with imr 3031 with a 70 gr. Amax I hadn't seen anyone mention barrel twist. Mine has a 1 in 9 twist and it does not like the lighter bullets at all. With a 55 gr amax I get about a 2.6 MOA it only straightens out when I get up to about the 69 grain sierra matchking bullets. I am an old time hunter and am pretty new to punching paper but it is a kick. I can just imagine plinking an antelope (or elk) in the bean at 800 yards. In Colorado anyway it is illegal to shoot big game with anything smaller than a .240 And I really was looking to buy a weatherby .240 mag for that reason, but found I couldn't buy reloading dies or brass for it so opted for the 22-250. They say that it is illegal for big game because it doesn't have enough energy. I say bull crap. When I first started breaking in the gun I set up a target with a 3/4" plate steel back stop at 100 yards the back of the stop was at about a 48 degree incline and the first two shots from the sierra match king bullets went in the same hole and punched through the 3/4" plate. I am pretty sure that would drop about anything on hoofs. I have shot it once out at 400 yds using the 70 gr amax and can cover 5 shots with a quarter. Pretty nice little group about two inches high but almost perfectly centered. That should put me in the kill zone out to about 800 yards. I still have a lot of shooting to do to get myself tuned into the gun out around 800 to 1000 yards. I just bought a box of the amax in a 75 gr the other day but haven't loaded up any yet to see what they act like. But now the weather has broken (election night, it is snowing hard and already has about 3 inches on the ground) and so I will have more time to play and less work to be done, so can find out what it will do. I welcome any comments or advice.

Rowdy1
 
My advise would be, you shouldn't be 'plinking" at elk from 800 yards :eek:

and what does this have to do with this thread?
 
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