Remington 700/300 WM/210 gr VLDs - COAL?

[Scrubbit]

Good Afternoon,

Switching from shooting 180 gr SSTs/IBs in my Rem 700 XCR 300 WM with factory barrel to shooting 210 gr Berger VLDs. I'm on the lands at a COAL of 3.649". Bullets feed out of H & S precision mags/bottom metal, but not a lot of room to spare. Is that a reasonable COAL for this combo? Seems very long. COAL for my 180s was 3.463". Starting to ladder test at 3.640". Thanks.

 

[Scrubbit]

All right. Have answered my own question. COAL of 3.644 (5 thou off lands) gives 5 rnd groups of .7 MOA overall and vertical spread of .3 MOA at 200m. Not worried about the horizontal spread as wind was varying from 9-1 oclock at about 4 mph. Fits in H & S Precision mags. Runout less than 1 thou at neck. Now only fine load tuning left.

 

[emerson]

All right. Have answered my own question. COAL of 3.644 (5 thou off lands) gives 5 rnd groups of .7 MOA overall and vertical spread of .3 MOA at 200m. Not worried about the horizontal spread as wind was varying from 9-1 oclock at about 4 mph. Fits in H & S Precision mags. Runout less than 1 thou at neck. Now only fine load tuning left.

Thats the best your Remington can do eh? My Savage 116 in '06 shoots 0.68MOA@200M with a VXII. Sometimes money doesn't buy accuracy......

Just kidding, good job bro.