I fell in love with one of these last week at Gander Mountain and had to have it... Brought it home last Monday with high hopes of having a new pet rifle for deer season.
Got a big fat order in to Midway Monday night for RCBS dies, Lee Factory Crimp die, SSA Brass, 300 of the 115 BTHP that were on clearance, 50 of the Barnes 110 TSX, Burris Dual Dovetail Bases and Signature Rings. Made another stop to Sportsmans Warehouse for some RE10x and Hornady 130 gr. SST.
Put the SSA brass together with Rem 6 1/2 primers & the 130 SST starting the RE10x @ 24.2 grains with loads worked up to 26.0. First shot...pierced primer!!! :evil:
After a lot of thinking, I figured out that the Rem700 is not equipped to handle small primer cartridges. So $32 down the drain on the SSA brass...
Not to have my weekend of bonding with my new girl stripped from me, I made it to the only shop in town that carries 6.8 and chunked down $57 on two boxes of Remington 115 OTM. Ouch! :x
Fortunately, the one shot I fired yesterday was enough to zero the Burris Fullfield II B-Plex to within an inch of POA. So, I set about breaking in the barrel. Fired one & cleaned 5 times, fired 3 & cleaned 5 times, and fired 10 & cleaned twice. So the first five were fired into the same bull & subsequent trios were shot into separate bulls taking care of the first $28.50 worth of ammo.
For the second box I shot the two 5 shot groups, cleaned, and shot two more 5 shot groups. All groups were at 100 yds, except for the last one which was at 200 yds.
Smallest group at 100 was a 5 shot group @ 2", largest group was 3 shot @ 3.6". The 200 yd. group was 4.1".
$750 for a new gun, $250 worth of bases, rings, & optics, and $50 of ammo...and all of this nets me average group sizes of over 2.5"...?
This SUCKS!!!

Got a big fat order in to Midway Monday night for RCBS dies, Lee Factory Crimp die, SSA Brass, 300 of the 115 BTHP that were on clearance, 50 of the Barnes 110 TSX, Burris Dual Dovetail Bases and Signature Rings. Made another stop to Sportsmans Warehouse for some RE10x and Hornady 130 gr. SST.
Put the SSA brass together with Rem 6 1/2 primers & the 130 SST starting the RE10x @ 24.2 grains with loads worked up to 26.0. First shot...pierced primer!!! :evil:
After a lot of thinking, I figured out that the Rem700 is not equipped to handle small primer cartridges. So $32 down the drain on the SSA brass...
Not to have my weekend of bonding with my new girl stripped from me, I made it to the only shop in town that carries 6.8 and chunked down $57 on two boxes of Remington 115 OTM. Ouch! :x
Fortunately, the one shot I fired yesterday was enough to zero the Burris Fullfield II B-Plex to within an inch of POA. So, I set about breaking in the barrel. Fired one & cleaned 5 times, fired 3 & cleaned 5 times, and fired 10 & cleaned twice. So the first five were fired into the same bull & subsequent trios were shot into separate bulls taking care of the first $28.50 worth of ammo.
For the second box I shot the two 5 shot groups, cleaned, and shot two more 5 shot groups. All groups were at 100 yds, except for the last one which was at 200 yds.
Smallest group at 100 was a 5 shot group @ 2", largest group was 3 shot @ 3.6". The 200 yd. group was 4.1".
$750 for a new gun, $250 worth of bases, rings, & optics, and $50 of ammo...and all of this nets me average group sizes of over 2.5"...?
This SUCKS!!!