It was too nice not to shoot. So I hiked the target back to 53 yards. The snow is melting in this warm weather. It was 38 degrees outside. I then got back to the shooting bench. I wanted to see, knowing that the 50 caliber Green Mountain Barrel Renegade with the new Cabela's PowderHorn Scope was sighted in at 25 yards... I was curious, where it would hit at 50 yards.

Again I was shooting Schuetzen 2f Black Powder, 300 grain Hornady XTPs, and Harvester Crushed Rib sabots. I was swabbing today with Rusty Duck Black Off and swabbing after every shot. The Winchester Magnum #11 caps were going to set the whole mess off.



Shot number one on a clean swabbed barrel kind of surprised me, but while I can not swear to it, I think there was a little hang fire. Maybe too much swab solution before I took the rifle to the bench. Or maybe the clean barrel syndrome. But I suspect too much swab. Although it did go off.

I was extra careful not to over swab between shots. Group #1 was very acceptable to me. Granted it would be nice to have it tighter, but I can live with that. I did have one flier. And I have no reason for it. I fired and it suddenly appeared. Kind of bummed me out actually.

Then to see if the scope would behave, I gave it five clicks down. And shot group #2. I fired three shot. In fact the first two were touching like that an I was kind of excited. Maybe why #3 did what it did to me. Puts me back in perspective.

I then went in the house and cleaned the rifle very well. I was going to hang it up for the day as I have a lot of other things I should be doing, but saw some 348 grain Powerbelt Aero Tips hanging there on my rack wall. So I figured.. a couple more shots.



I lowered the powder charge down to 80 grains and was swabbing between shots. I fired three rounds but I can only see two holes there. So one must have went through a same hole or missed completely. Anyway they were a real surprise to me.

But I wonder why they hit so much lower then the 300 grain XTPs. I mean 48 grains is not the end of the world. But with that kind of accuracy, I could learn to adjust.

The scope behaved perfect today. It traveled in those five clicks about what I guessed it would do. And again, nice and clear. Also on 10x it is easy to check the target from the bench at that distance.