Black Mag 3 and Buffalo sabot 225 grain
06-27-2005, 03:21 PM
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Black Mag 3 and Buffalo sabot 225 grain
Went shooting this weekend for only a few hours. Sighted in my new scope, bushnell banner 1-4x32, with my last 5 and final rounds of powerbelt 295 AT.
Sighted in the gun, CVA Buckhorn .50, at about 4" high. Using 100 grains of BM3 with the buffalo 225 g. sabot I was hitting about 3" low @100 yards, but I had a great group of three at the bottom of a 10" target. I could touch all holes with a quarter. Luck probably, but I decided raise my POI by 8 clicks up. 1 click = 1/4" which resulted in about 2-3" high from dead center. I was tired, and it was 92 degrees with no shade. Gun was really hot, but clean.
My method was to swab out the barrel with a wet followed by two dry. That worked great and my number 1 concern was getting a flash. Talk about the barrel being hot. Black Mag 3 is by far the cleanest powder I have tried. Took me over 24 hours to get to cleaning my CVA and the breach plug and the barrel was simply amazing. I was done with the barrel in about 6 patches before I was done. The plug was very easy to get clean.
Now all I need to do is get the precision bullets sighted in for the omega. This is going to take a while and I'm almost thru with the first container of BM3. I have one left, but may have to break down and buy another two jugs.
Paul
Sighted in the gun, CVA Buckhorn .50, at about 4" high. Using 100 grains of BM3 with the buffalo 225 g. sabot I was hitting about 3" low @100 yards, but I had a great group of three at the bottom of a 10" target. I could touch all holes with a quarter. Luck probably, but I decided raise my POI by 8 clicks up. 1 click = 1/4" which resulted in about 2-3" high from dead center. I was tired, and it was 92 degrees with no shade. Gun was really hot, but clean.
My method was to swab out the barrel with a wet followed by two dry. That worked great and my number 1 concern was getting a flash. Talk about the barrel being hot. Black Mag 3 is by far the cleanest powder I have tried. Took me over 24 hours to get to cleaning my CVA and the breach plug and the barrel was simply amazing. I was done with the barrel in about 6 patches before I was done. The plug was very easy to get clean.
Now all I need to do is get the precision bullets sighted in for the omega. This is going to take a while and I'm almost thru with the first container of BM3. I have one left, but may have to break down and buy another two jugs.
Paul
