I spent a couple of hours over at the gun range testing out Accurate Arms 5744. I just don't get it. The Midwesterners seem to be the 5744 crowd in the military benchrest shooting. Seems most of them shoot it.
Out here in the PNW it seems to be the Alliant (or whoever makes it now) 2400 crowd.
I have an accurate load shooting 16.5 grains of 2400. It doesn't seem to matter much which bullet I shoot as I've had excellent results with the RCBS 180FN, RCBS 180SP, and the NEI pairs of the 311-190 and 308-190. All shoot good for me.
Today I shot 5744 from 19 grains up to 23 grains. No combos seemed like anything to write home about but if I had to select a range I'd say 22.0 and 22.5 grains seemed to shoot the best. But they had the oddball little flyer.
2400 has it's flaws too. It likes to have the barrel warm before it settles down and it seems (to me) that the bullet strikes start dropping out of the group about the 25th shot and keeps dropping down until cleaned.
Anyone else try 5744 and what's your results? Wally, would you like to educate one of the 2400 crowd.
I'm tempted to fire this next weekend's match with 5744 just to see how a 40 shot score of 5744 would compare with 2400 scores.
I did do one bad thing that messes with the results. I seated my bullet out further to the lands. Before I had it set back some.