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Old 07-10-2015 | 06:29 AM
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Default Shooting an anomoly

I wanted to go back out with the 1:30 and the 215 gr Lehigh again even though I think the matter has been concluded . General consensus is the 1:30 is to slow of a twist. Not by much in my book though. I think it's borderline.
anyway I took the Knight Disc 1:30
215 gr Lehigh bullets
100 gr Blackhorn powder
federal primer in red plastic jacket
omega 3x9 250 bdc scope

I shot at 100 yards just to confirm. first shot on cold clean barrel was good. Center and barely high.
next two shots were to the left but touching. I did not adjust windage. I decided to shoot it as is and just hold for wind.

The wind was blowing more than I prefer for long range anyway but I really wanted to do this. here is the target \



Somehow just shooting targets and shooting at deer are two totally different things. I wanted to see if this combination was accurate enough for hunting ,even if the bullet had some yaw to it. I will probably never use this gun and bullet for hunting but I wanted to know.
So I decided to shoot a deer!!

The wind was my nemesis but other than that I wouldn't be afraid to hunt with this gun with the 215. and the Yaw didn't appear to show up til over 200 yards and I never hunt with just a 100 gr of powder so it's possible I wouldn't have it at all.

I did overshoot at 200 yards . the bullet had much less drop than I compensated for . here's the deer. You can draw your own conclusions

 
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