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07-17-2006 | 01:37 AM

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From: Tri Cities, Washington

Bullshops in my Ultra Mag

Well, I finally made it back out after 2 weeks vacation, sore neck/numb right arm, 90++ degree days.........

The day started off good. I planned on trying to get up early to beat the heat. I succeeded in getting up at 5:30, helped by my neck killing me and having to take a leak. All was pretty good until I found the huge diarrhea land mine my lab left for me by the door. Evidently, she got into some extra food that I didn't know about. Labs have a way of doing that. After about 20 minutes of cleaning, I was back on track.

Got to my shooting spot at about 7:00 and about 10 minutes later another pickup showed on the horizon. Whew, I just beat them. There is really only one good spot there to shoot, so I got lucky this time.

Since I had last shot, I replaced the front ramp and front sight with a much lower profile combination and a white bead. I thought this would work much better with the Lyman peep sight and it did.

That and the fact that I was shooting conicals for the first time, I started off at 25 yards with the Bullshop 460s making adjustment after each shot. The other shots on that target were from sighting in from a different day shooting.

After I got it close, I made one final adjustment and moved the target back to 50 yards. I just made 3 shots with the 460's with no swabbing, infact, I didn't swab the whole day.

I decided to shoot 3 of the 500s, so I did. No sight change, no powder change or anything else. After the second shot of the 500s, I thought "dang, that sight picture was different" and sure enough it was high.

Since I wasn't happy with that one shot, I decided to shoot a 500 at one of UC's targets just to see. Well, heck, couldn't even tell where the middle of the paper was. Didn't know for sure at the time if it was UC's fault, or the fact that my printer cartridge was low and didn't print too good. I determined later it was UC's fault.

Then I decided to shoot some of the big boys. I backed off 5 gr on the powder, but kept everything else the same.

Here was my shooting setup. You can see how bad that UC target is!!!! It's on the right.

Anyway, that was enough for me for one day. A couple notes though.

I must say, that with my neck and right arm in the condition it is in, I had to concentrate real hard to do my job. Better sense probably would have been to stay home and wait for a different day, but I just couldn't wait to shoot some conicals.

And the one kicker to the whole thing. Can anyone tell mehow the .504's from Bullshop load in your Ultra Mags?????? The first one on a clean, dry barrel slid down the barrel all by itself. After that, the weight of the loading rod by itself easily pushed the bullet down the barrel. As I said, I didn't swab while shooting and all the bullets loaded the same. I don't have anything here at the house to measure them with, but will TRY to remember to bring a pair of calipers home from work tomorrow. I am planning on using either the 460's or 500's to hunt with this year, but am going to have to get some sized a little bigger. Has anyone else had to do this???

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