I took the rifle out again today to try some other things. I also decided to try the bullets that came with the rifle. I started on on a clean barrel shooting 110 grains of Triple Se7en 2f and some 200 grain Shockwaves. Again, all the hits are about 3-4 inches below the POA which seems strange for a rifle that has the rear sight set half way up the ramp. Next time out, I am going to raise the sight and see how much it changes. The shockwaves did pretty good, but not as good as I want them to be with open sights. I was swabbing between shots. There was no development of a crud ring at all using the red primer jackets and Winchester W209 primers.

After swabbing I decreased the powder charge to 80 grains of 2f and shot a shockwave. It his almost six inches under the POA. Again, no reason it should do that. So to check it, I aimed for the top of the cardboard and it hit about five inches low, under the POA. So I broke out the all lead sabots that came with the rifle. I swabbed between shots. They too were hitting far below the POA but did group well with only the 80 grain load. I thought I had shot five but find six holes from them so there must have been six sabot/bullets as I shot them all off and accounted for every shot after shooting. Something is different with this rifle but we will get it figured out.