Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

I bought a old Sako, AV in 7x64 a mouth or two back, super nice rifle, nicest trigger ive had on a factory rifle in ages, been doing a bit of load work, and decided the cheep 3x9 Leopold, wasn't doing the rifle justice, so a new scope Z3 bought for my cooper single shot, and a swapped that scope to the Sako 7x64.

Pretty Impressive accuracy , but finding load data is pretty anemic, Hornardys new 10th addition showing 200fps difference between the 7x65 and 7x64, sister cartridges I had thought, Ive found factory 173gr S&B doing 2600fps and the current Max load data for 154gr and 162 gr Hornardy, cup and core SST ELD-X is giving me 2600 and 2570 at max with H4350, 50g and 49gr with the 162gr,
Back to range perhaps tonight, and will see what a bit of extra powder delivers, trying up to 55gr with the 154gr.
Bugger all, suitable powder in town at present, only R19 and 7828, I try r19 if todays results are still slow.