Today was sunny out but a real teaser of a day. It was 40 degrees but that wind was out of the north off the lake and it was cold. And the wind gusts were strong at times. Still, I wanted to shoot but not have to worry too much about anything. So I picked my boring rifle. The White M97 Ultra Mag in .504 caliber.

I knew the rifle was sighted in dead on at 75 yards but the target area was clear back to 100 yards. So I placed the target at 100, 101, 103 yards and called it 100 yards. I then adjusted the scope for a little more then an inch in elevation as it would be hitting low. I decided this rifle can be sighted in for 100 yards. What the heck.



I thought you might like the ballistics of the load. I find it interesting that even though I am shooting 80 grains of Triple Seven 2f and a Bull Shop 460 grain NEX .504 conical bullet out of the rifle. Look at the energy that thing carries with that little bit of powder. Who needs 150 grains of powder?

I fired the rifle from a clean barrel. After that I never swabbed the bore of the rifle. I did wipe out the breech once because the caps were not sitting right. I was shooting Winchester Magnum #11 caps.



First shot on a clean bore was a little bit off. But I did not worry. I then shot two more to check it. It was hitting a little high. I guess I gave it to many clicks. So I lowered it just a little and shot a three shot group. Are you bored yet?

Then I aimed at the small deer head in the lower left corner and shot twice. I was aiming dead center on the face. I could not see my hits, even through my spotting scope. This bothered me. Maybe the shadowed were off or something so I aimed right on the top of the deers head and fired. Then I had to hike down there and look, also it gave the rifle time to cool. When I saw where the first two hits were, I was more then pleased.

Returning to the bench, I then aimed at the upper left bull. I fired one shot. Not to bad I thought. So I aimed at the upper right bull and fired one shot. Again, more then pleased with the rifle.

Then I could tell the breech was getting dirty as the bolt was getting hard to pull back. But I aimed at the green square bull. I fired three shots. The third one is the one that is just out of the square.

I decided I could stop for the day and save some bullets and get out of the cold wind. Or field clean the rifle and keep shooting. Since it was so late in the afternoon and I had other things to take care of in the house, I called it a day.

I told you this would be boring.

I was able to recover a little bit of lead that I shot this winter.



looks like I have some casting material now.