I wanted to shoot today. A very few flakes of snow was falling so that was not the problem. It was over cast and in the thirty's so it was nice and warm.

I wanted to shoot the 50 caliber Green Mountain Barrel more with the 3-10x40mm Cabela's PowderHorn Scope. The last time out, I had adjusted the scope to 50 yards. It shot high at 50 yards. And with PowerBelts it shot just a little low. So I was guessing that the PowerBelts should be almost dead on at 50 yards. Also last time out, they shot fantastic. I was going to find out just how right I was.

The PowerBelts are the 348 grain Aero Tip. And last time I shot them with 80 grains of 2f Schuetzen black powder, which is kind of suggested by most PowerBelt shooters. Too much powder is not good. So this should be real good.

I swabbed the bore of the rifle with some dollar store Orange Cleaner. I made sure it was good and dry. Then I started shooting with the remaining 8 PowerBelts from the time before.



Shot number one hit just on the outside of the ten right. I was swabbing between shots I should add. With the orange cleaner and then two dry patches. Shots 2-7 were about as good as it gets to me. Then with shot #8 I decided to shoot on the fouled bore. It did effect the POI but for eight shots.. I was more then pleased with the group.

I know that a lot of people warn that the PowerBelt is an ineffective hunting round. Personally I have no experience to judge it by. But I do think or at least reason.. that a projectile that heavy shot with 80 grains, should be deadly if the projectile is placed in the right spot. And someday I am going to prove it. I might have to go hog hunting and take that rifle and round. See how it works on hogs.

I also wanted to try and shock this scope. So I wanted to load a large powder charge and do some shooting under that PowderHorn. If it is going to break, I want to break it.



I know that this rifle loves Shockwaves. So I had a few of the 200 grain 40 caliber Shockwaves left. So I wanted a heavy load. Well my powder measure went to 120 grains. That should do it. So I loaded 120 grains of 2f Schuetzen black powder. I was swabbing between shots.

Aiming dead center on the bull the first two shot high, like I figured they would. I had covered the powerbelt hole with duct tape and then applied a one inch Birchwood Casey orange dot. The next three were perfect in the dot because I aimed just under that dot. Unfortunately it knocked the dot off on the last shot and I had no idea where it went.

So I retrieved the target and put the stand away. Then I had three Shockwaves left. And I took them out on my paint cans. These Shockwaves with 120 grains of Black powder, really make a paint can jump at 86 yards.