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Old 08-24-2020, 08:55 AM
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bronko22000
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Default Shootin the .58

This is the first time out shooting the .58 at 100 yards (actually about 115 yards). My first shot hit below photo so I elevated the rear sight. Shot 2 more and those were the 2 to the right. After a slight tapping of the rear sight to the left I fired the next 3 shots. I'm pretty happy with the way it was shooting. Load was 110 gr of Pyro RS, pillow ticking patch with olive oil as lube and .570 round ball. Swabbing between shots was done with one spit patch both sides then a dry patch.
An interesting note was when I started shooting I took one shot at 50 yards and saw that I was dead on. Then shot that first shot noted above at 100 hitting about 6" low. Sighted in as above and when I was all done I took another shot at 50 yards and hit only 1" high. I didn't think of it until now but maybe I should have took a shot or 2 at 75 yards to see my POI.
Note: smaller hole was from my .45-70 that I was also sighting in on another target well below this one.
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