Got back out this afternoon to do some more conical shooting. I was in Kennewick this weekend and Casecadedad gave me a a box of Bull Shop 460 grain .504 conicals. I really wanted to get out and shoot these + since I changed fron sites I wanted to try that also.

The .504's were more difficult to start than the 460 NE's (.503) that I had shot the week before, but it was only right at the muzzle, once in the muzzle and on the way down they went down real smooth.

I must have shot 25 of them and every so often I would tell myself - I am going to stay with the .503's then I would talk myself out of it and decide I would use the .504's...

I stayed with the T7-3f - 70 grain load - producing about 1400 fps muzzle velocity. I did not set up the chrono today but I might be getting a little more velocity from the tighter bullets, but I think the difference would be minor. Using the .125 - .510 shot card seemed to work well again.

I set the target at 50 yards and started shooting, as I had bore sighted the new sights with a laser bore sighter. I could never reach the elevation @ 50 that I wanted the TC sight is topped out, so I am going to have to remove the front ramp sight supplied with the barrel and install a TC front sight also, which is really to bad because I liked the looks of the front ramp sight. I never did get to the comfort level I wanted for shooting @ 50 yards. I then started shooting killable targets @ the end of the rock pit about 100 yards. But I was continually hitting low...

At the end of the day I had 3 bullets left on the top layer of the box so I decided I would move the target back to 100 and take the last three shots. Well this is where I got lucky... shot one was right about where I would expect it to be. Shot two was my fault but i didn't feel I had that bad of a sight picture... Shot three was right back there with #1. The last thing I did was laser the target - lasered at 92.5 yards. Now! if I could hold a pattern like 1 & 3 with open sights @ 100 I would really be happy.... Just really need to shoot a whole lot more with open sights - scopes just make it to easy....

Well anyway here is the 92 yard target....