Shooting my .45 caliber Green Mountain barreled Renegade last month left me perplexed. I was shooting Ed Mehlig's 350 grain .452 lead hollow points and getting fairly poor 100 yard five-shot groups with a flyer or two in every group. That's just not right! This gun has always given me really good groups with Ed's big 350 and 465 grain bullets.
I want to include that gun in my weapon rotation for the next two months of deer season, and needed to fix the poor grouping. Having shot something close to 200 of Ed's bullets out of the gun over the last year I figured the nipple may be eroded pretty badly. I was right.
Yesterday I installed a new nipple and shot a test target with the big 465's. Here's the result with two shots each at 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 yards (even though I was not shooting my best).
