Post by Richard on Sept 9, 2015 15:59:01 GMT -5
Man oh man……………..We no sooner got to the range at 6:30 a.m. and we look up the hill in the field behind the range house and 13 turkey are meandering around not 75 yards away. During the course of the morning they wandered across the 200 yard berm , were literally 3’ from my 100 yard target and up as close as 25 yards, all while we were shooting. They have big balls!
Beautiful day, clear with no wind at 7:30 humidity was low and temp was 78*;
Nothing earth shattering, just my notes from 36 shots.
I started the morning by fouling the barrel with the 250 FTX smooth sized and a 8/60 Clays/H-4198 duplex. After the first cold, clean bore shot, the remaining four shots punched a nice .547” group with the first shot making it 1.4”
Next up was that rebated 290 TEZ that I was talking about. I shot this smooth sized with the 10/60 duplex. It did fairly well but not what I would have liked ….putting five in 1.1”. I will cut the rebate in a little further and make the tail somewhat longer for next week and see what happens?
Last week I shot the 300 BE with a 5/65 N-110/H-4198 duplex and it did not do too bad. This week I switched to 4759 in place of the N-110, The 100 yard group was under an inch with some vertical…………..but then again, 3 shots does not tell the whole story. I could have easily have shot two more and they might have gone to the side and the group would have looked normal? Who knows? The fact that I am running out of those bullets, I limited shooting to only three shots.
So for my fourth group I shot the same load at 300 yards…………….and see, the group was now somewhat more horizontal? Go figure? But 1.6” is almost ½ MOA?
Based on the fact this load was about 2” low at 100 yards, I added 7 MOA which put me right about on. I am getting more used to this NF scope and starting to like the extra power and clarity.
For the fifth group I decided to try the 5/65 4759/4198 duplex with the 300 SST at 300? As you can see, it did not like it near as well as the BE did. My feeling is the Hornady has a much tougher jacket and benefits more from the 10/60 Clays/4198 load……….so
For the 6th. group, I did just that and you can see how it tightened up. What happened with the third shot was……..we could not find it with our spotting scopes. Velocity looked good, the shot felt good but no sign of the bullet hole so I fired six shots altogether as I wanted a five shot group. When we finished up and went to pick up the targets? There is was, in the same hole as #2. So ask me why shot #6 went to the right? Beats the you know what out of me? Maybe some wind that I did not see but doubt it? Bullet integrity or shooter error? Who knows?; as Herman always says: F n Muzzle Loaders.
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?? Look at the ES for five shots: 12 fps. One would think it should have shot a bug hole? Five or six years ago with the .50’s we would have been saying: Not too bad? Now…………? And yes, it would have been a dead deer!
For the final group I went with a smooth sized (13 mks.) 250 TEZ and the 10/60 duplex and was rewarded with a tidy little 1” group……………NOT as tidy as Kyle’s but nevertheless decent. I took a fourth shot at an adjacent 9 x 15 steel silhouette that I had sprayed that morning and my hit was right about where it would have hit on the target so a pretty good range session with more information for my “Loose-leaf” computer!
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Beautiful day, clear with no wind at 7:30 humidity was low and temp was 78*;
Nothing earth shattering, just my notes from 36 shots.
I started the morning by fouling the barrel with the 250 FTX smooth sized and a 8/60 Clays/H-4198 duplex. After the first cold, clean bore shot, the remaining four shots punched a nice .547” group with the first shot making it 1.4”
Next up was that rebated 290 TEZ that I was talking about. I shot this smooth sized with the 10/60 duplex. It did fairly well but not what I would have liked ….putting five in 1.1”. I will cut the rebate in a little further and make the tail somewhat longer for next week and see what happens?
Last week I shot the 300 BE with a 5/65 N-110/H-4198 duplex and it did not do too bad. This week I switched to 4759 in place of the N-110, The 100 yard group was under an inch with some vertical…………..but then again, 3 shots does not tell the whole story. I could have easily have shot two more and they might have gone to the side and the group would have looked normal? Who knows? The fact that I am running out of those bullets, I limited shooting to only three shots.
So for my fourth group I shot the same load at 300 yards…………….and see, the group was now somewhat more horizontal? Go figure? But 1.6” is almost ½ MOA?
Based on the fact this load was about 2” low at 100 yards, I added 7 MOA which put me right about on. I am getting more used to this NF scope and starting to like the extra power and clarity.
For the fifth group I decided to try the 5/65 4759/4198 duplex with the 300 SST at 300? As you can see, it did not like it near as well as the BE did. My feeling is the Hornady has a much tougher jacket and benefits more from the 10/60 Clays/4198 load……….so
For the 6th. group, I did just that and you can see how it tightened up. What happened with the third shot was……..we could not find it with our spotting scopes. Velocity looked good, the shot felt good but no sign of the bullet hole so I fired six shots altogether as I wanted a five shot group. When we finished up and went to pick up the targets? There is was, in the same hole as #2. So ask me why shot #6 went to the right? Beats the you know what out of me? Maybe some wind that I did not see but doubt it? Bullet integrity or shooter error? Who knows?; as Herman always says: F n Muzzle Loaders.
The seventh group was with the 290 TEZ smooth sized and again, the 10/60 duplex.
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For the final group I went with a smooth sized (13 mks.) 250 TEZ and the 10/60 duplex and was rewarded with a tidy little 1” group……………NOT as tidy as Kyle’s but nevertheless decent. I took a fourth shot at an adjacent 9 x 15 steel silhouette that I had sprayed that morning and my hit was right about where it would have hit on the target so a pretty good range session with more information for my “Loose-leaf” computer!
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