Nearly done, rifle is finished. A few of you may remember I posted a question regarding load date here as I was getting some "odd" results. Thanks to Daryl (and partly on his own intuition) the gunsmith went with an IMR powder and has got the results below. I have attached a photo of the target and his email to me. I hope this may be of help to any of you out there thinking about loading for it, all caveats apply, this is what he found works but may not work in your rifle, best, Mike

and his email below, my error on the Barnes bullet weight, it is 130 grains. The Woodleighs did well !

"Mike,
I got to the range on Monday. Load development is done. I ended up with two excellent loads:
one for the 140 grain Barnes and the other for the Woodleigh 160 gr. The gun appears to
love the IMR 4895 powder. I'm still getting muzzle velocities above all the loading data that
I have managed to collect. The good thing about these loads is there should not be any
scope adjustment necessary to switch between loads. The 140 gr shoots high and right about
one inch, and the 160 gr shoots low and left about an inch
Attached is a photo of my last target of the day
Your gun is finished. I'm going to take it apart and do a cleaning and final inspection
Rocky"