Last week I bought a used 0.52 Knight Long Range hunter. I told the person that I would have to shoot it before I would commit to buying it.

He told me that all he ever used was 150 gr Vol of Triple 7 ffg and 375 grain Barnes bullets. After buying about $70 worth of Barnes bullets I was very very close to bringing it back. All I could get out of it was 3" to 4" groups at 100 yards.

On a hunch, I brought out some Blackhorn 209 with some 350 grain MZ bullets. Bingo!! Using 90 grains (weighed) of Blackhorn and the 350 gr MZ my 100 yards groups now were close to MOA. Three of my groups were slightly under 1".

I removed my 6 to 20 Leupold and installed a 1 to 5 power Leupold and headed back to the range. The benches were full at the 100 yard range so I went to the 50 yard range.

After one shot I adjusted the scope by using the moving the cross hairs to the bullet hole method. Here are the next four shots with the 0.52 Knight LRH.



The recoil gets your attention, but is managable. I was hoping for 1900 fps not 1950 fps, but it shoots so well at this velocity I'm leaving it. I'm letting a buddy use this ML for the Minnesota rifle season. I'll be using it for the Wisconsin opener on Nov 21. kl