And not a thing to show for it except the smile on my face. Did not even get a pciture because I left the camera at home... and the fact that I am now faced with a delima... This 52 might be better than I thought. Not just it's accuracy - but it will even more versitile than I originally thought.
But, back to the point, I did go to the Rock Pit with great plans of getting a bunch of velocities and comparisions of T7-2f and BH shooting 3 different bullets...
Two problems arose... I went early this morning to beat anyone else that might be sighting in trying to get ready for the up-coming hunting seasons. It was a perfect day a little warm but a clear day with only a few clouds. That was the key problem - early and clear.... The pit lies and you shoot from the the west to east... Well guess what the sun comes up in the east and when it comes up over the pit it shines right on the chrono. No matter what I did with the sun screens I could not beat the angle of the early morning sun. It beat right on the sensors and it really made it also made it difficult to get a good picture through the scope especially on 9x... I was only able to get 6 shots throught the chrono before it went wacky and found it easier to measure the sabot than the bullet...
I got three velocities with 120 grains of T7 and 3 with 120 grains of BH-209 (charges thrown on site) shooting a .458/300 grain Sierra bullet.
T7
1. 1868 fps
2. 1842 fps
3. 1860 fps
BH-209
1. 1915 fps
2. 1895 fps
3. 1910 fps
Not a significant difference but a difference... from there the chrono became sun baked and could not read from shot to shot...
Well, since I drove all the way out there I decided I still want to get something done just to feel good about the gas I wasted. So I moved the chrono out of the way and decided to contiue burning powder.
If you have seen pictures of the rock wall in the pit you have seen it is littered with breakable targets, so I decided to take my frustration out on the breakable targets - try to break them up even smaller... It was fun enjoyable and did cause me to reconsider my thoughts about this 52 cal Knight.
If you have not read Chetmarks remarks about his thoughts on the Knight Extreme... it is a good read, but more importantly - it is well verified with this particular Knight 52.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/blac...ht-rifles.html
And my biggest complaints about the lack of versitility of the 52 are also going away. It really could be and might be an all-around gun for hunting all of North America. The only thing I am not sure of in that statement would be it's or any ML ability to handle big bear. But other than that it might be the one gun you could across the country from thin skinned whitetail to the heaviest moose.
It was a great Friday morning - hope all of yours were good also...