It snowed about 1" last night, so had to shovel a little snow off the drive. Whilst shoveling, i noticed there was only a slight breeze, so when finished, headed for the hills.






That last time out, it seemed like the rifle wasn't shooting as good as i thought it should. Whilst cleaning it, i removed the barrel from the stock, and removed some tape i had placed last summer to make the barrel more free floating. It also seemed the bullet were hitting low when compared to the setting on the cds dial, so i increased the powder charge to 130g BH. Because of these changes, it seemed prudent to check the aim. The previous photo shows where the bullet hit at 200 yard with the cds dial set at 2. This was satisfactory, so a move was made so to be able to shoot at 400 yard.


There seemed to be a few lion hunters out looking for fresh tracks in the new snow, and their tracks can be seen in the photo. The air was thick with a little fog, and a very very minimum snow fall. The temperature was 14 degrees, and the breeze was near zero, but inconsistant. The cds dial was twisted as far as it could go, before shooting at the 400 yard target.







I saw the first bullet hole; the second bullet hole, but i couldn't see where the third and fourth bullets hit. For some reason the light was such that no matter how i tried, i couldn't see bullet holes today. This made me wonder, so i had to drive the 400 yard to the target. At the target, i could finally see bullet holes.







Then, returning to 400 yard away, i was able to get off 5 more shots before it seemed the breeze was too much.