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Offline 12ptdroptine

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26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« on: January 27, 2008, 04:12:20 PM »
Took my Encore .223 out today...wondering what kind of accuracy people are getting...With American Eagle 50gr flat base hollow points I got strong 1.5 " groups @200 yds. With 50gr vmax Black Hills I got 1.75 groups..200yds also.In both cases 2 of the hole's were within 1/2 of each other...maybe warm barrel v/s cold barrel. Not set up to reload yet...I know thats pretty fair hunting accuracy.and thats what I am going to do with it. Might in the next summer try to work up a load to make it a tack driver....It does have the stock trigger setup..Not the best I have shot...But not the worst either.....With my 209X50 barrel....2  50gr 777 pellets I shoot sub inch groups pretty regular.....What should I actually expect?
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2008, 03:37:46 PM »
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2008, 03:19:41 PM »
  Anybody?
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2008, 04:45:01 PM »
 I have see two different heavy barrel shot in the .2's and .3's with reloads. Good luck!
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2008, 07:29:55 PM »
You should expect 0.5 to 0.75 MOA.  With good handloads, less than 0.5 MOA isn't at all out of the question.
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2008, 09:56:14 PM »
Did you guys notice he is shooting at 200 yards?  I would say with stock everything and factory bullets his groups aren't bad at 200 yards.
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2008, 12:52:56 PM »
They are tighter @100yds....I am looking int reloading...more of a space issue than anything.......Got so many rooms tied up with hunting stuff now..... oooops!
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Re: 26 heavy Barrel accuracy .223
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2008, 04:54:40 PM »
Mine really liked the 45gr stuff, never found 50's and hated all 55gr factory ammo.  I loaded some 55gr Sierra Gamekings over 24.5grs of H4895 with a CCI 400 Primer and set them .010 off the lands and my groups are great, much better than factory stuff.  I got the load from the Sierra manual, it maxed out at 26.1, but mine is more accurate at 24.5grs, 25grs was good but 24.5 was great.  Velocity is 3100fps.
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