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Old 09-07-2011 | 01:27 PM
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Default U-Mag+Birds+Rock Pit

To me that should be a winning combination... the only real weak link in the formula is me!

I was unable to slip to do some elk hunting this morning - had to help Terry load up for her trip to Kennewick, then decided I shoud go to the 'PIT'

I have not shot the White in a long time so thought it was due... grabbed the White and shooting stuff and headed out.

When I got to the pit it was already warming up but decided, no matter what I was going to get some shooting in.

I walked 8 birds (that is what come out of the box when I opened it) to the wall and placed them on their perches.

The book! says it is sighted in with a 110 grains of T7-2f and a 300 grain bullet, so I stayed with the 110 grain formula, but decided to start with a 41-210 grain Speer Deep Curl in a MMP blue sabot. Since the U-mag 504 is a large bore I felt the load combination would load well. It was a bit snug but not really a problem.

Things went swimmingly with the first round of birds and the 210 Deep Curls. So I walked another 6 birds down to the wall and decided my next bullet would be a Lehigh 50 cal Sabotless DOA. Shooting the same 110 grains of T7-2f... That went so well i walked another 6 down and went after them with the same bullet. I really am impressed with the Lehigh 50 cal Sabotless - I just hope Dave gets time to get back to them.





After the last 6 of the sabotless - i was still wanted to do more shooting... so back down to the wall with 6 more birds and next up in the bullet department was the Lehigh .452-250 gr. DOA...

6 birds 6 bullets - same results...

I still wanted to shoot some more so I surveyed the wall looking for shootable bird chips... found a pocket of 3 chips that would work very well. In fact the chip on the low left was exactly a shot I was looking for... it was laying nearly flat out on the edge of a rock. If I shot low I would hit the wall below the chip and would get no hit results. If I shot high, left, or right of the chip there would also be a good chance it would not show any results... So the became my 'shot of the day'

Decided to go to the sabotless to get this last 3 shot opportunity done... 3 shots and it was done...

I hope the pictures of the 'Chip Shooting' show up well enoght for you see...



But in all WHITE'S Shoot Great!!!!
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