Trying to shoot today
 

Well it was a warm beautiful day. Little wind, and overcast. 34 degrees made it nice and warm. So I wanted to shoot. First I had to dig out the shooting bench again and also the target. A cost of living in snow country. Good thing I had shoveled that out a couple weeks ago.



I discovered I was so high up off the bench, that I could not get down low enough to shoot off my bench rest. So I got out a set of shooting sticks. My range finder said I was 28 yards from the target, so open sights should be a piece of cake.

I had gotten in some light blue .45 caliber .400 diameter sabots. And I had a box of 200 grain .400 Hornady XTPs. So I broke out a jug of Triple Seven 2f and some CCI Magnum #11 caps. I was shooting a Green Mountain Barrel in .45 caliber with fiber optic sights and a 1-28 twist in stainless steel.



The first shot with the .45 was my fault without a doubt. It slipped in the sticks because I had to shoot with the sticks so close to the trigger guard I could not lay into it. The next three were pretty good.



I then shot a number of shots with the .45 at old grapefruit, watching them blow up (feeds the birds too) and at other things. Then I decided to break out another rifle.

Since Falcon was having such great luck shooting hogs with 300 grain Hornady XTP's out of his CVA Staghorn Magnum. I broke out my CVA Staghorn Magnum. Then I remembered I had purchased some pure lead cast bullets that were Keith Nose and 350 grain in .430. I decided to try them for accuracy (since they had been sitting on my shelf for a few months).



I loaded 100 grains of Graf's 2f black powder and used Winchester W209 primers. The first shot off the clean barrel was real good. It did not seem to float out of the group. And the next three were very acceptable. I was swabbing between shots. This rifle is sighted in for 200 grain shockwaves. You would not think there would be that much difference in drop, but I might re-sight this rifle for these bullets. They would sure be a hunting load.

Nice report Dave, good to see your weather also has warmed into the 30's, it feels like Summer now! LOL
(BP)

Dave:were did you get them Keith Nose bullets?:violin:

thanks for the input ..why did you leave the snow on your shooting bench ???? also did you get your "spin jag" yet ????

I am jealous of you, I had to work all weekend and it was so nice!!! I really wanted to be out shooting, my luck it will get cold or something by next weekend whe I am off. But anyway, good shooting and looks like you had lots of fun.

cayugad

Great shooting as usual.... I am really hoping to get out next week and get some shooting in with the Elite and the new Lehigh conversion... but I did get to shoot today - shotgun - trap shooting...

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They were .25 cents each. Compare that to Shockwaves or some of the other brands out there. I think they would do a world of hurt on what ever they were shot at.

I left the snow on the table because it tells me what's on the ground and is easy to measure. Also it is fun to shoot a flintlock next to (which I was going to do until I saw the .45). I did not get another spin jag yet. I did find standard jags on sale and bought six of them so I have a lot of them to break.

i just knew they're had to be a reason for you to leave the snow on the table ..glad that u had a nice day ,up here it was very windy and cold for a change..

Nice shooting,glad to see the staghorn report it just makes a 100 dollar gun that much better.Gotta love'em