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Old 08-24-2010 | 12:55 PM
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Well I took the rifle out today. The target was at 50 yards. This rifle does not like No Excuses .503 conical bullets. I tried them with 70 & 80 grains of Triple Seven and 80 grains of Goex 2f. They would be shooting a good group one second and then throw them eight inches out of the group. It looked like a shotgun was shooting. On them double bull targets, I aimed at the top bull and hit a dead center bull, but it was the bottom bull.

This rifle really likes 300 grain SST's but you have to take the sabot they come with and change it over to a Harvester crushed rib sabot. The SST sabot which looks like a MMP HPH-12 ... well its a good thing I have a stainless steel range rod. But with the harvester sabots the rifle shot under one inch groups at 50 yards (52 actually). With the 200 grain Shockwaves, it did not do quite as well shooting an inch and a half group. I was swabbing between shots. And when I tested what would happen if I did not swab, well it threw them out of the group about half an inch. I was shooting 90 grains of Goex 2f with the Shockwaves.
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