Well hunting season will be here soon (modern rifle season). And I hunt with muzzleloaders. So today it was cold, over cast, and a light drizzle. But I took two rifles out to double check them. One was my stainless steel Green Mountain Barrel Co. .50 caliber with a 1x32mm T/C Hawkins scope on a Renegade stock. I wanted to try some of the 250 grain Speer Gold Dot in this rifle, and to shoot black powder. So I took some Graf's & Sons 2f and some harvester crushed rib sabots.
100 grains of Graf's 2f and the 250 gr Speer hit two inches high at 50 yards, but a little left (1 inch). So I decided to tune the scope to 25 yards. I brought in the target and it was dead on but just a very small amount (1/2 inch) without any adjustment. Then I realized, that made sense.. So I did adjust the scope a small amount to the right and then it was drilling the bulls eye at 25 yards.
I then set up the .58 caliber Green Mountain Barrel in a Renegade stock. I was shooting 110 grains of the same powder and a patched roundball. It was dead on at 25 yards. So I moved the target back to 50 yards and it too hit about two inches high at 50 yards but in perfect alignment.
Its amazing how a 1x scope will help as a aiming device, but how that cross hair will almost cover a 3-1/2 inch (edge to edge) small bulls eye on a target at 50 yards.
That's when the sky opened up on me. And I mean opened up. So I gathered up my stuff and ran back to the house. Two down and about twenty more to go..
Tuning rifles
