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07-29-2006 | 04:35 PM

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cascadedad

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From: Tri Cities, Washington

RE: Shooting with Sabotloader

OK, here goes.

We shot a lot of paper playing around. I did shoot this one just to see what would happen when I shot multiple shots. Like the target says, this was at 80 yards. There was a stiff wind blowing from right to left all day. These were with the new 460 oversized (.5045) BullShops Dan sent me this last week. I must say, they are PERFECT. They load easy and I have no fear of them coming off the wad. Excellent job Dan, Thanks. I don't know the order of these shots, I just started shooting, one after the other. I do remember the first shot was the one directly over the bull. Matthew and Mike encouraged me to put the target and gun away and call it a day, but no way. The distance between the two circled holes, center to center is 3.75".

I was very happy with this group of 9 shots. I would have shot another to make it 10, but I wasn't counting.

Now on to the fun part. I noticed something up the draw that looked like could be a target. We never did really figure out for sure what it is, next time I will hike up and see, but it kind of looked like a large hot water tank or something. I ranged it with my rangefinder at 313 yards. Mike was jumping up and down thinking about how fun it would be to shoot at it. Don't know if you can see it in this picture.

Anyway, we shot several times getting closer and closer. Several shots by both of us were very close. Matthew had quit shooting by this time. Then I hit it. We could hear the sound of the bullet hitting the metal. It was very cool. The boom of the gun, wait a second, see the dust fly, wait another second or two and hear the sound. I shot a 350 gr bullshop next and it hit just a little high. Then I shot another 460 and I got another hit. That was cool. Mike hit it once also. I will stop and say right now, if there are any here that think you can't shoot a saboted bullet out of a .54 Renegade with great results, your crazy. I can only say that because I saw it. Mike was shooting with fiber optic sights and he was shooting very well. Here is a sequence of pictures of one of his 313 yard shots. My camera has a "sport" mode that I can just hold the shutter release down and it just starts taking pictures at about 2-3 pictures per second. I am not sure if it will show up on these posted pictures, but in the 3rd and 4th pictures you can see the dust kicking up.

There was also a spot up and to the right that was an open spot between some sage brush. It ranged at 430 yards. Mike made an adjustment in how he was holding his sight and hit the middle of the clearing on his first shot. He had a smile on his face and did about a 45 second dance before settling back down. I told him to prove it, so he did. His next shot was probably several feet away, up and to the right, but still excellent we thought. 430 yards w/ open sights.

After all this fun is when I bumped the powder up to 120 gr. I shot a few up the draw and then put two on paper. One was about an inch directly to the left of the bull. The second was about 2 inches directly to the right of the bull. I must say, by this time I was feeling the recoil. I guess I shot 25-30 shots today and by the end the accumulation is what I think I was feeling. I really didn't think the recoil with the 460's and 120 gr powder or the 620's and 100 gr powder was severe. It was a push, but definitely managable.

Phil,sabotloader was having a great time shooting his Renegade. He really dida nice job putting it together. Maybe when he has a chance, he can post the specifics on where he got everything, it is a good story.

Cayugad, no it was a blued .54 cal. It was his first time shooting it and he said it really isn't made for shooting sabots. He said some (no names mentioned here

) think he is crazy, but I must say, he know how to make that plastic, er. polymer, work for him.

Anyway, sorry for being so long winded. I really hope these pictures tell the story.

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