Yesterday afternoon I mounted the Cabela's Powder Horn 3-10x40mm scope on a stainless steel Green Mountain Barrel 50 caliber that sits in a T/C Renegade stock. I did not bore sight it, since normally they are very close.

I put the target out at 25 yards in the snow and shot from a bench rest. My intent was to ruff sight in the scope. But also to punish the scope and see what happens. If it is going to break, do it now!





My load was not a normal load to me, but to some of you probably an every day load. 110 grains of 3f Triple Seven I believe is a max load in this rifle. It might even be a little more then normal. I later was shooting black powder with 100 grains of 2f and that was a much more comfortable load. The 110 grains of Triple Seven 3f had a lot of recoil. Especially with a 300 grain XTP on top of it. But I wanted the scope to break. I wanted to stress it.


Observations of the scope.

The scope is very long. And I am not a fan of long scopes. But on this rifle it made no difference as the rear sight is removed. I like to leave the rear sights ON. (or I end up loosing parts). The length is listed at 12.2 I like them around 11 inches at max. But again, this was not going to be a problem.

The FOV at 100 yards is good. 31.5-9.4 and the scope is listed at 3.75 eye relief. I can not swear to it, but I believe I have more then that. Excellent eye relief in this scope. Never once did it come near me with the max loads being fired.

Again I am impressed with the excellent clarity of the glass. Face it, for a $49.00 scope what should you expect. But this one I could easily focus it, and the movement from one power setting to the next was flawless. It also held track when moving through the different power settings. Some scopes will move off the POA a little. This one held true.

The scope seemed to eat up the recoil with ease. I originally was shooting low. And so I removed the lens covers/caps and looked at the dials. Very sophisticated looking dials with lots of numbers and calibrations on them. Now if I just knew how to use all that. But I studied the top dial to raise the POI and really it did not tell me if I should go clockwise or counter clock wise with the dial.

So I made my first adjustment and went the wrong way of course. I then readjusted and discovered it was going to take a lot of adjustment to move that POI up the target.

And so I made smaller adjustments and slowly moved up the target. When I got too high, I made my to the right adjustment and it worked great. Although being at 25 yards it takes a lot of adjustment to move one in. Normally 4 but maybe it was me, I sure seemed to turn that adjustment a lot to move an inch.

Anyway I got it hitting the top of the bull.. which is where I wanted it. Also the Powder Horn held nice and true with that monster 110 grains of Triple Seven.

So the over all observations are, long scope, great glass, adjustments seem slow, seems to be solidly built so far, love the cross hairs in it. And I think it will be working real good.

I then took the target down and loaded up 100 grains of Black Powder and held dead on paint cans at 86 yards. I really can not say where the rifle is hitting back there. I need to actually shoot at a target back there. But I do want to sight this one in at 100 yards and then see if the BDC is close this spring in the hay fields.