Thread: "Feather in my hat" 308win Featherweight load development

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
Strongly agree that a flat base projectile is worth testing. My .308 does not shoot anything with a boat tail well. It also tends to shoot heavier projectiles better. The rifle is a Remington 700 ADL made in 1975 which I have had since new. It has always shot well with the exceptions noted above. It now has a Hogue over moulded stock, a 10 power scope and a DPT suppressor and weighs a little over 4kg. @dannyb if you are going to get the rifle bedded then fitting pillars is probably worth the extra dosh. IIRC the original bedding was just a bit of synthetic bedding to the receiver installed at final assembly. Not bad at the time but that was a long time ago.
Regards Grandpamac.

origonal bedding was a blob of hot glue gun snot,action was then slapped into place..... by redoing it you can poke some support out into knox area at same time and give recoil lug a decent new bed to lie in..... if you place something thin in barrel channel it will free float at same time... dead easy to put a bit back at tang if really worried but its not needed for testing...if he redoes bedding quicky job and it still wont group worth a damn... well look further... 3-5 shots is all it will need to confirm its doing better or not.