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Old/New 04-10-2009 01:14 PM

Shot before the rain came...pics
 

Finallygot a chance to shoot but got rained on soon after starting. Shot the 45 cal Accura using Lehighs & XTPs. Only had light blue CR sabots available. Was a bit dissapointed with the Lehighs and figured it may be because of the sabot. They went down pretty easy. But then I shot the XTPs and they went down easy also with the same sabots.Only they shot much better (thanks UC).

The groups below were my best. All at 100yds. All with BH209.

Looks like I've got some expeimenting to do. I'll try some tan sabots, I guesss. Different powder charges too! Any other suggestions on sabots?



























sabotloader 04-10-2009 01:46 PM

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Old/New

How much Bh were you shooting? I am thinking because of the length of the Lehigh you might need to shoot a pretty healthy load to get them perform.

rt_con 04-10-2009 02:01 PM

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Very nice group with the XTP's.;) I'll take that group all day.

How about the smooth blue harvesters for a tighter loading sabot ?


cayugad 04-10-2009 02:04 PM

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Nice shooting there...

oldsmellhound 04-10-2009 02:06 PM

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Awesome group with the XTP's! No need to mess around with that one. You probably can dial in the Lehighs more by playing around with the powder charges and/or using a different sabot- just will take some experimenting

Grouse45 04-10-2009 02:13 PM

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I wouldnt change sabots yet. Your groups are alot better then my first with those bullets. I would increase your powder and see what happens. Those XTP'S will do the job on Deer for sure. Very nice shooting.

I just noticed you were using the crush rib sabots. They were no good for me with the SST'S either. I didnt shoot any XTP'S.

Old/New 04-10-2009 02:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: sabotloader

Old/New

How much Bh were you shooting? I am thinking because of the length of the Lehigh you might need to shoot a pretty healthy load to get them perform.

You may be right. They didn't shoot worth a darn using 90 gr of BH. A touch better with 100 and the last group was with 110gr.

The CVA book says 100 gr max which I am sure is conservative but I'm not sure how high I can go.

Underclocked 04-10-2009 03:12 PM

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Those Accuraii just aren't any good, are they? ;)

Old/New 04-10-2009 03:18 PM

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ORIGINAL: Underclocked

Those Accuraii just aren't any good, are they? ;)

Turrible. :D

rt_con 04-10-2009 03:27 PM

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Old/New: Can you posta pic of the gun w/ scope ?

I'd like to see how you have it set up... Thanks.


Ooops... Never mind. I see it on another post.


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