I decided to take a couple of my rifles out to the range today since hunting season has wound down. To pretty a day to waste and I needed to do some custom loads for a fellow's rifle anyway.

I'm still in load developement on these two. One is an Remington XR100 22-250 bone stock and the other is a Browing Abolt 7RM bone stock as well that I just picked up used for a steal.

For the XR100 I loaded 9 rounds with the 55grn NBT using 3 w/ H4350, 3 w/ H4895, and 3 w/ AA2015 as well as another 3 rounds with the 52grn AMAX and AA2015. This is my first go with the NBTs in this rifle, I picked up 100 from Nosler pro shop for a descent deal. I wasn't really trilled that they had cannelures but oh well, they'll probably do ok.

I believe all four of these will definitely be something to work around, only problem is deciding which to start with:


I think I got pretty lucky on the Abolt, it seems as if it's going to show promise as well. This was my first load developement with it and it looks as if I can just start here with these and try to perfect them a bit. It's certainly a slow one but the accuracy seems pretty good for a factory rifle. I loaded a few 3 shot groups just to see if they'd be a good place to start.


This is only the second Abolt I've ever owned but, both shoot great as well as the others I've shot from time to time. Not a bad rifle for someone wanting a accurate hunting rig.
Range conditions today were temps from 45-50 and winds from 5-10, luckily head winds. All shooting was at 100 yards.

My favorite time of the year for load development. Something good to do until Turkey season.

Ya'll have a Good One,

Reloader

You got keepers in both of them in my book. My 7mm RM shoots the same bullet almost that well, using IMR 4831.

I just don't like A-bolts although I've not had one that wouldn't shoot with work.

Damn Reloader that's sweet! In my experience, when you feed a rifle some various loads and it shoots them all well, like those 2, you've got one that will be a real shooter. It's really nice to get two of em right out of the gate4 like that.

I'd tweak em up a bit with whatever load I liked best out of your 'baseline' and then rock and roll.

Congrats and good shooting!

Yeah, I believe they'll both be keepers. I hope to officially "break-in" the ABolt next fall. (Rub alittle blood on her )

Yeah Fish, that's been my experience as well. If they'll shoot just about anything you feed em', they usually have a pretty good tube.

The only problem is deciding which to improve on . That 22-250 has shot well with almost every load I've ran through it so far. I think I'll probably just pick either the 55NBT, 55BK, or the 52 AMAX and one of those powders I used Friday and just load up quite a few rounds and call it a day. I think I'll just read notes and see which seemed to have the lower SD.

Ya'll have a Good One

Reloader