Savage 111 .30-06 with mildot Grand Slam!

[Phantom Captain]

The weather was absolutely beautiful today so I played hooky for half a day at work to finally get out with my Savage 111 .30-06 and check out some of my hand loads as well as dial in my new Weaver Grand Slam mildot scope.

I've taken the rifle out a few times before, once with the cheap Simmons scope and then again last weekend but today I finally really started to get everything right.

Previously, when I mounted the new Weaver scope it was off and I couldn't even shoot it til I took it home and remounted the scope right. Sunday I was out in the garage all afternoon and finally got it on right and bore-sighted!

I am using Warne bases and rings. The scope is the Weaver Grand Slam 3x10 40mm with mil/mil adjustment. The glass is beautiful and I love the mildots and how they work, especially the mil/mil adjusting.

I am starting to work through a few handload variants to really see what this rifle loves. I'm using 168 and 178 grains Hornady HPBT match bullets. Today I only really got a chance to shoot the 168 grainers.

Here is a lovely little group at 100 yards. 55 grains of IMR 4350 (it appears, so far, to prefer this loading) and the 168 grain bullet. This was my best group of the day. I only ended up shooting 35 rounds.

I'm happy! Going to keep tweaking it and find a couple different combos it likes. I love my Savage now and have to say I'm really liking the accutrigger too!

 

[browningguy]

Nice, I've really become a fan of the Grand Slams over the past couple of years. I currently sue a 6.5-20 on my P-dog gun and a 4.75x40 on my Ruger RSI.

 

[JimBoIHN]

Wow-what a nice group! Looks like the wind blew you off about a quarter inch to the left. You can just go for head shoots on anything down to..............rats.

 

[Phantom Captain]

Ha!

Thanks! I'm settling in with the set up now and am really getting happy with it. I want to work out a few more handloads and get it them locked down for both 168 and 178 grain bullets.

I really love this rifle! It's nice to see what it finally can do. I was getting a touch discouraged with my first two outings and new it was just to do with the previous scope and then not having this one set up right.

Glad I got it all sorted.