{"id":1187,"date":"2014-11-08T13:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2023-12-28T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T21:59:02","slug":"savage-223-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2014\/11\/savage-223-precision\/","title":{"rendered":"Savage .223 Precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/img\/Savage10FP.223_ChoateUltimateVarmintStock-1600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/img\/Savage10FP.223_ChoateUltimateVarmintStock-640.jpg\" alt=\"Savage 10FP in .223 Remington with Nikon Buckmaster 4.5-14x40 scope\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing <a title=\"Savage .308 Precision\" href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2014\/08\/savage-308-precision\/\">precision testing<\/a> my guns I took my old Savage 10FP to the range with boxes of six different commercially-available .223 Remington rounds. The rifle has a 24-inch 1:9 heavy barrel installed in a Choate Ultimate Varmint Stock, which makes it a superb bench gun. I mounted the 14x Nikon scope before I had found good Quick-Detach mounts, and before I had concluded 20x is my preferred minimum for precision shooting. But it&#8217;s still fine for setting a baseline with commercial ammo:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Load<\/th>\n<th>Avg Muzzle<br \/>Velocity<\/th>\n<th>CEP (MOA)<\/th>\n<th>90% Confidence<br \/>Interval<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#CCC\">\n<td>Black Hills 75gr Match<\/td>\n<td>2620fps<\/td>\n<td><b>0.23<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(0.19, 0.36)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"\">\n<td>Georgia Arms 69gr Match<\/td>\n<td>2705fps<\/td>\n<td><b>0.30<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(0.24, 0.46)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#CCC\">\n<td>Wolf Gold 75gr Match<\/td>\n<td>2600fps<\/td>\n<td><b>0.59<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(0.49, 0.87)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"\">\n<td>American Eagle 55gr<\/td>\n<td>3170fps<\/td>\n<td><b>0.63<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(0.53, 0.93)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#CCC\">\n<td>Silver Bear 62gr<\/td>\n<td>3000fps<\/td>\n<td><b>0.80<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(0.67, 1.17)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"\">\n<td>Wolf Classic 55gr<\/td>\n<td>3120fps<\/td>\n<td><b>0.84<\/b><\/td>\n<td>(0.71, 1.25)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a title=\"Savage 100-yard .223 target\" href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/img\/Savage10FPtarget.jpg\">The 100-yard target can be reviewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing precision testing my guns I took my old Savage 10FP to the range with boxes of six different commercially-available .223 Remington rounds. The rifle has a 24-inch 1:9 heavy barrel installed in a Choate Ultimate Varmint Stock, which makes it a superb bench gun. I mounted the 14x Nikon scope before I had found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,133,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms","category-ballistics","category-precision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-j9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}