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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?

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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.

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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 ?

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Nice shooting there...

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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Turrible. :D

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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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Nice group.You gotta admit, if all grouped well there would be no challenge

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Be careful there posting pictures of nice looking rifles. That has the same effect as when Lon Chaney used to look at a full moon. He'd get all hairy and crazy, drool at the mouth, howl at the moonand wolf man like... The gun pictures have the same effect on me, all but the hairy, I think it caused all my naturally curly hair to fall out and left me bald.. [&o]

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CVA has changed those restrictions - you can load as any other gun now... but verify that with CVA

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Ithought they were going to change loadings but had not heard anything yet. I will probably give them a call.

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Exactly. I will enjoy getting those Lehighs to shoot better!

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I get the same grous with the XTPs. Youexpect to get those on a continuous basis.

Not familiar with the Lehighs. Do they have a website where I can get the info?

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Here ya go!

http://lehighbullets.com/