This has really been a good week, got to shoot the White on Monday, the Remington on Thursday, and on Friday the newly re-barreled Renegade... wish I could have shot everyday, but Terry thought I should do some stuff around here. I am trying to get ready, CDad might be coming over from Kennewick next Saturday and he is so darn competitive - I gotta get the practice in...

Thursday, when I got home from Strychnine big brown had been here and left my newly purchased e-barrel... It looked good on the out side and as the seller had indicated pretty good on the inside, not as good as I hoped but "pretty good." I was bidding on this barrel and another barrel a "like new - maybe never fired" barrel. I had the "new barrel" with 47 seconds left in the bidding - i was feeling real good - then one of those "power buyers" with their hidden bids got it for a $1.50 over my bid - @#%&... I hote those guys... so my second choice was the barrel that arrived Thursday.

Put the barrel on Friday morning and headed to Little Boulder Friday after noon. I had cleaned it at home but decided that i would shoot some 350 REAL's lubed with JB's bore paste from it first. I had about 12 of these shorter 320's figuring in a 1/48 twist I could not use the long No Excuses or Bull Shops.

The first 3 shots @ fifty were those JB lubed 320's and @ 50 yards they were a bit low, but not unexpected they were pretty loose going down the barrel. So I made the decision to go ahead and shoot some 460's no matter if I could not stabilize them. I adjusted the sight up what I thought might give me a little more heighth and loaded up a 460 - .504 Bull Shop. It was really tight, but shot it out, it was the hit at 9:30 left of the bull. Next I loaded a 460 -.503 No Excuse - perfect slip fit. I then shot 6 of the No Excuses - really a decent group ecept for shot #3 and # 4. These are the to holes up and away one @ 11:00 and the @ 2:30. Now here is my question???. Both of these bullets came off the bottom of the box and had a big glob of well set lube hanging off the nose of the bullet on one side... really sid not think much about it just picked up the bullet and thumbed it down - then set it with the ram rod. COULD that glob of lube on the nose caused these two bullets to move a bit???? That is the only way I can explain those two shots. Then next shots I did wipe the lube off the nose and they settled right back in.

I was not really that happy with the 100 yard five shots, but decided it was OK and did not attempt a sixth shot cause I did not want to mess it up....

Then the fun part, I put out 6 clay pigeons on the rock wall behing the targetand started shooting them. I was feeling really good because I got five in row on the first shot... then on the sixth I wanted to see the bird break if I could, cause I was wondering if I was really hitting them or were fall of the wall because of the impact of the Grenade I was shooting some where around them. I am sur those big lead sinkers cause a mini earthquake when the hit. Well, in my effort to see I missed 6 cause I got me head of the stock to look, well when I looked the birds was still there so I had to load up one more to get it... got it.

Now, after all of that I really am surprised the 1/48 twist would stabilize the big long bullet. But I see no reaso to not use those conicals for the new Idaho rules even from a 1/48.... You know the funny part is if you take the scopes off my otherwise Idaho legal inlines I do not think that I could do any better with one of those. I do not see why the Traditionalist beleive the inlines (under old Idaho rules) are that much better than sidehammers...

Oh, here is the target and a picture of the rock pit - thought you might be able to see the clay pigeons in the rocks just above the target but that is what they looked like to me through the sites also.





If you go here you might get a better pic....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/sabotloader/Ren50Target.jpg

I am doing my house work today... forgivness for getting another barrel...

mike