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Old 02-28-2008 | 02:13 PM
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Default GMB Stainless Steel and some SSB's




Rifle: Renegade percussion cap lock with a 1-28 twist stainless steel Green Mountain Barrel 28"
optics: Thompson Center 1X scope with Weaver Solid rings
Caps: Remington 40% hotter
Powder: 100 grains of Pyrodex RS or Triple Se7en 3f
projectile: 375 gr Buffalo Bullet Co. SSB in black sabot from company
distance: 50 yards
weather: 26ยบ and very over cast but little wind

Shot #1 was with a .504 UC Short mag and 100 grains of Triple Se7en 3f w/ .510 card. Recoil was like a rented mule. Really kicked.
Shot #2 basically the same thing but with 100 grains of Pyrodex RS. Recoil not as bad. Also the .504 was near impossible to load. Had it not been for a very high quality range rod, it would not have happened I suspect.

The upper group was with the Triple Se7en. Recoil was not too bad. Accuracy was very good. The lower group was with 100 grains of Pyrodex RS. Again, recoil was acceptable and accuracy was more then acceptable. These Buffalo Bullet SSB's could be loaded with out a short starter. I could push them with thumb pressure into the barrel and then seat them with the range rod. I did not swab between every shot but sometimes shot two in a row to see if it effected the group. For instance, in the Triple Seven group, the second shot, B moved to the left. With the Pyrodex RS for some reason it did not seem to matter. It just kept slamming them in that same spot. I see that the scope needs some minor adjustment.

Also at 50 yards with a 1X scope, the cross hairs will hide all that tape basically. Which I thought was kind of interest. So when I lined up for the shot, I held until the tape disappeared and then touched it off. The small cap container was placed there to show a relationship to size for the group. There were no dead center hits from the rifle. Almost all of them were to the right, except the conicals for some reason.
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