We got out to the range today to finish up shooting our loads. Big Nate still has a way to go, but I was able to shoot a 4 shot group with each of the 4 different loads. Recoil was minimal, but was surprised that the Speer 123gr .310” gold dot had the most recoil out of all of them. The 125gr .308 SST shot a 3” group. 123gr .310 gold dot shot a shotgun pattern. 150gr .311 Speer Hot Core shot a 1” group. And the 150gr .312” Hornady Spire Point shot at 1” group. All groups were shot at 50yds. I’m going to load a mess of the SST up for practice ammo, once Nate is able to shoot them decently we will start working up a load for one of the 150gr bullets. This rifle build has turned out better than I anticipated and I’ve got one really excited kiddo.


JTD