Twas a Shooting Day!

[frontier gander]

I went and checked mail today and got a huge supply of sabots and such from Corey! And then to top it off, i open up my PO box and there are my Powerbelts in there! It was an early christmas.

I got home, ran a windex patch down the Omegas bore, Loaded 80 grains Pyrodex P, a 240 grain Cheap Shot. 50 yards, far to the right and 5" high and i made 20 clicks to the left, Made some adjustments until i was 3 inches high @ 50 yards. Second + Shots were gone with the 348 grain Powerbelt Aerotip with 80 grains Pyrodex P. I really liked what i was seeing! After i got it close to where i want it, i went and set up my 71 yard bench and shot and tested more 348's and wrote down all my info for later.

Swabbed the bore clean * 9 shots and 2 patches, both sides" Switched my primer from the CCI to the Remington Kleanbore 209 primer. Loaded 70 grains Pyrodex P and a 295 grain Powerbelt. Holy smokes was it shootin! I plan on trying the Winchester 777 primer tomorrow with the 348 @ 100 yards should the weather hold.


The rifle is just doing Powerbelts like it was born and raised on them!

Also, When i was first shooting the maxiballs out of the rifle, i kept getting horrible fouling the last 5 to 6 inches down the bore. I experienced None of that today with the Powerbelts! It was the lube on the maxiballs causing the fouling.

So far i have an elk load and a deer load all figured out! And accurate to!

If i dont shoot tomorrow, I'll be filling up a pillow case with sand and putting it on my shooting bench. That darn cheap Shoot N clean rest is not steady at all!

[corey012778]

I told ya I hook ya up. should of sent ya some of this cast 45/70 rounds with sabots to play with.

[frontier gander]

Those wad cutters look pretty cool. I want to try those out soon.

I love outside dogs, Mine just drug in a deer leg, complete with shoulder blade I am going to soak the shoulder blade in water and tape it to my bucket and shoot through it with a 348 powerbelt and then dig it out of the sand.

[lemoyne]

I would guess you are shooting the Omega, They all seem to like PB's and Sabortooth bullets as well as the new FPB's from Hornady. I always had to use a dry wad,a table spoon of corn meal ,then a greased wad to get a tight group with the others, mine likes the 385 and 405 gr the best. the first time I shot the new FPB I used 100gr of BH and it put6 of them into 1.25 inches at 100yds with a hot barrel it was in the 90's and I had been shooting for an hour with sabots; turn out to be more fun than I expected. Lee

[frontier gander]

Yep, the omega.

I also went out with my nephew and he helped me set up a pillow case filled with sand that we put inside my broken sand bucket. And then i went back inside and got another pillow case "Excellent auction find!" and filled it with 50-60lbs of sand and made a shooting bag out of it and put it on my shooting table. That aught to be a nice sturdy rest now!

Tomorrow all i have to do is tape up a new target and load the rifle and im going out to 100 yards with the 295 powerbelts and then switching over to the 348's.