More testing with my Remington Genesis and BH209

SWThomas · 01-10-2009, 01:25 PM

I went shooting with gobbler getter today and I got a chance to test out the 290 grain Barnes T-EZ with a different sabot. I started out by shooting a 3 shot group with 300 grain .44 cal Hornaday XTP's with Harvester green crush rib sabots. It turned out pretty good for my first shots of the day. I'm very happy because the first shot on a clean bore with 1 primer fouling shot prior is the one closest to the center. All shots were with 100 volumetric grains of BH209 fired at 100 yards.

Then I fired a 3 shot group using the 290 grain Barnes T-EZ with supplied sabot. Before I fired this group I cleaned off the breech plug and swabbed the bore several times with some solvent soaked patches and then a clean one. I did this for consistancy and because when I hunt it's going to be on a clean bore. I'm pretty sure the first shot is the one on the bottom right...

Then I cleaned the weapon again and fired a 3 shot group using the same bullet but with Harvester black crush rib sabots. The bullets fit fine in them but they went down the bore extremely easy. I didn't think it was tight enough to use with BH209 and was expecting the possibility of a hang fire. But it fired just fine and the group turned out to be tighter than that with the supplied sabots...

I was surprised that a bullet/sabot combo that loaded that easy shot so well. I just wanted to report more results with my Genesis and also with BH209.

cayugad · 01-10-2009, 02:09 PM

excellent range information there.. and some good shooting too. I like those .44 caliber XTP.

SWThomas · 01-11-2009, 01:04 PM

Yeah, they seem to group and shoot really well out of the Genesis with 100g BH209. I'd like to see what they do on impact compared to the T-EZ. If they hold together well when impacting bone, I may just use them for hunting.

cayugad · 01-11-2009, 01:17 PM

They look like a well made bullet. And should have some pretty good velocity with that charge. It would be an interesting hunting bullet.

SWThomas · 01-11-2009, 03:10 PM

I may try to get my hands on some ballistic geletin and conduct some testing. Maybe put some real bones in it to see what happens to the bullet when it hits them...