Today I was checking a rifle I will hunt with. It was my WHITE BISON in .504 caliber. The rifle has a 4x32mm Simmons Pro Diamond scope. According to notes it said..

65 grains of Pyrodex RS or Triple Seven 2f and a 460 gr conical bullet. Sighted in at 35 yards. (the gun card information)



The rifle was never swabbed. I was shooting a .5045 conical made by Bull Shop Conicals. I also tried some conicals a person sent me that they wanted to see how the White handled them..

I lost count of the number of shots I took. I would guess over ten. As the box of conicals was new and now there is a top row missing. This is a good shooting close range rifle. But when I got the rifle it was abused. The barrel is in ROUGH SHAPE. But with the short 22 inch barrel, this is a good stalking rifle, other then because of the Myrtle wood stock it is kind of heavy.

I then got out the test conicals. They are 433 grain and were sized according to the maker at .501 diameter. The rifle has a .504 barrel but a .504 is tight. So I was a little concerned. I noted when loading the test conicals.. they all but fell down the barrel. That did not worry me at first. And I decided to use Pyrodex P 65 grains to test them. Now remember, I was aiming at the center bulls eye!!



Kind of a perfect keyhole there. I was shocked. I just could not believe the White threw shots like this. I checked the rings.. they were fine. I checked the rifle, they were fine. Now granted.. the Pyrodex P was down to the last few shots in the jug, and the powder is very old. But I mean.. WOW!!

So to check the rifle, I loaded some of the bull shop conicals and the Pyrodex powder..



I was aiming between the keyhole shots and fired off a number of the Bull Shop conicals.. I don't think it was the rifle. So it has to be the conical bullets they wanted tested. So the answer is... THEY ARE NOT THAT GOOD FOR ME.

I ran out of Pyrodex P finally so I moved the target back to 70 yards... I picked out a new part of the target in the lower right hand corner is a small bulls eye



I could tell the rifle was finally starting to get dirty, but even at 70 yards it shot good. I'd definitely attempt a 70 yard shot from a good rest.

The White had a MISFIRE today. I aimed, pulled the trigger and all I heard was the cap fire. I thought.. what the White failed? Checked the nipple after removing the spent cap and there was a perfect copper seal in the inside of that nipple. I picked that out, and all was back to normal.

This rifle is ready!!