My savage Axis 243 absolutely loves Federal blue box 80gr soft points. Also..free is a great place to start. Throw the cheesey stock in.the trash and buy a Boyd's...You'll be glad you did!
Those banquets are awesome. My dad recently won the revolver from 3:10 to yuma I really think/hope they try to draw kids names to get them excited about hunting and firearms. I knew multiple kids who won a 243, it seems like a great youth caliber too.
If you plan to hunt with copper bullets, maybe try Hornady’s CX? As you probably already know, tumbling like that indicates that the bullet is too long for the twist rate. My 2 cents.
@Dennis The Menace I measured the twist rate and unfortunately it's only a 1 in 12 so it won't be able to stabilize any of the deer weight bullets. Their website says it should be a 1 in 9.25.
@@thelonggunner762 You should be able to contact Savage about that. I think it should be covered under warranty. After all, it’s advertised and marked as a faster twist than a 1:12”. I wish you and your son luck with it.
Bullet tumble: when a bullet leaves the muzzle of a gun, it is rotating about its short axis with its long axis oriented along its direction of travel. However, it is also precessing slightly about its direction of travel as a result of imperfections in the bullet and the muzzle of the gun. Over time, this precession increases until the bullet starts to tumble as illustrated in this figure
I think your problem with the bullets tumbling is because even though it's only 85 grains they are longer in length vs lead bullets of the same weight so they want stabilize
@@thelonggunner762 I have only experienced it once. It was with 75 gr match ammo in a .223 Model 700. At 50 yards they were all over a typical sight in target,at 100 yards they didn't even touch paper!
In the second video I checked the twist rate and it was not as advertised. Hopefully when it comes back it will do better with the heavier projectiles.
