ORIGINAL: falcon
Today I shot the .50/.40 Shockwave in my Encore for the first time. The gun has a new scope, a Leupold FXIII 6x42: The Simmons M/L scope went to pot after several years on three different rifles.
The gun had been laser boresighted. Started with 90 grains of JSG FFG. It took only three shots to get it zeroed at 50 yards. Then I fired a three shot group thatmeasured about 1.25"-without swabbingbetween shots. Moved the target to 110 yards, the 100 yard line is flooded from recent rains.
Upped the powder charge to 100 grains and was on target with the first round. Fired two more rounds without swabbing the bore and got a non- spectacular group of 2.5"
Wanted to see where the gun now shoots the 250 grain SST in the "low drag" sabot with 110 grains of JSG. Swabbed the bore and fired a three shot group with out swabbing between shots. The three 250 grain SST made a 1.75"group in the middle of the 200 grain Shockwave group.
Got everything I wanted: Two good bullets of different weights and different powdercharges that shoot to the same point of aim.
Most folk I have read say the Encore likes hotter loads and heavier bullets, so the 1.75 group does NOT surpise me to get good accuracy. My brother shoots 150g of pellets in his Encore with a 300g bullet, and it is accurate.
I liked the cleaniness of the Am Pioneer Powder when I shot it a few years ago, no swabbing and no crud ring would be a great thing. Is there a crud ring with the JSG?
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