Hey folks. I have a 223 M77 MKII light barrel that I cannot get to shoot at all. I have tried Black Hills 50 grain VMax, 55 grain Soft points, Winchester White Box. I have a Leupold 4-12AO on it and have had the barrel floated and glass bedded and had the trigger worked to a crisp 3lbs.
-The 55 grain SP's shot 1/2" groups at 100 yards but opened up to 5-6 inch groups at 200 yards.
-The 50 grain v-max shot 1 1/2" groups at 100 and 3" groups at 200 yards
-The white box was so bad I am not even going to list it
So I decided to load up some of my own. I tried loading 50 grain v-max with 1,2 and 3 below max loads with W748 powder and it shot 2 1/2 groups at 100 with all of them.
I know there are a lot of powder and bullet choices out there but I don't want to go broke trying them all. Anyone have THIS GUN and a load that they have had luck with?
Thanks for the help!