A beautiful day to shoot
 

I took a couple of rifles out today, but I wanted to shoot some of the No Excuses conical bullets I bought for it. I decided to start with 85 grains of Triple Seven 2f.



I shot two to see where they would hit. I was only 30 yards out. And the rifle had a 4x32mm Simmons Pro Diamond scope. Seeing it was a little low, I raised the POI in the scope and shot four more to check it. Not too bad.

So I then loaded only 80 grains of Triple Seven 2f. Now remember, I have not swabbed the barrel during the whole time. I then started to shoot as fast as I could at the next target with 80 grains.



I could tell towards the end that the barrel was starting to get fouled as it was getting harder to do the slip fit conical down the bore. The last two started to drift. But the main group is impressive considering I was shooting and loading and then shooting again.

80 & 85 grains of Triple Seven with that conical is an impressive load. A little recoil. But it was 47ºs outside, so I was not wearing any jacket today. Just a heavy shirt. But this is one tough little rifle.

After that I shot another inline and then a flintlock. They shot perfect as usual and just loaded the bulls eye. I am thinking to hold off more shooting until I can melt out my target stand and move back a little. 30 yards is a lot of fun, but not much of a challenge. Unless I shoot for a single hole group, which just never seems to happen.

Those big ol` bullets have got to be thumpers with that load. What does that Bison weigh Cayugad? I've never seen a White up close and personal. Have you ever shot that load with wads under the bullet?

nice shooting, I was gonna try and shoot today also but went outside to see what my longest range free of snow would be, only about 25 yards! The rest is still buried in a foot of snow anlong with my target! Maybe in a week or so I can get out and do some shooting.
Doug

The Bison has a Myrtle wood stock and a full bull barrel so it is kind of .... well I just weighed it and it is a hair over seven pounds with scope and mounts. I have tried wads in my other Whites and they did not seem to add or subtract to the accuracy. I have been testing different powder. I want to see just how hard I can push that large conical and still be accurate.

Doug I have the same problem. My target PVC portable stand is frozen to the ground. So I am going to put the whole thing on a toboggan next winter. Then I can pull the thing out to distances I want... Should make for more of a shooting experience next year.

The cool thing is the snow back in the woods. I can see where they are soaking up all the lead and bullets. So come spring I will have to walk slow back there and look for lead.

I may make a hanging target next year in the woods a bit. I can snowblow down to it and if I keep my deck cleaned off I could shoot right out my back door. I am really getting the itch to shoot, I havent done any since the middle of November. Just gotta keep telling myself that spring is coming!!! 45 degrees today!!!

Nice report Dave and good shooting! It's good to see you got some nicer warmer weather to do it. We finally got into the high 30's and some SUN! have'nt seen that in awhile. Im sure we both will see a few more Snow Storms befor it's finally over.
(BP)

I was kind of sore today. Yesterday I had to climb up on the roof and knock off an ice dam so the roof could melt off. Yes this warm weather is really nice. You can wander around without a jacket and do stuff outside.

dalberg - I would go crazy if I could not shoot. It sounds like your in a place like mine, I can shoot all I want.

cayugad

Gosh those hole seem big - but they sure are neat! Good shooting as usual..

I got to shoot a little bit today also, but mother nature is suppose really let us know who is in charge for the nest 3 days - cold and snow after almost a solid week of 50* weather....

I really want to amke some of those big holes - either with a PRB or some Bullshops... I just keep thinking I need to work this Knight thing out....

Yea it's nice to be able to just shoot whenever you want, Im in your boat Dave, I can just walk out the door and start shooting if I want. Im glad I live where I do and between my Inlaws and me we own most of the poperty on our road. During Hunting Season some of the Locals will do Deer Drives and 99% of the time the Deer will run twords our Woods and through our Yards, when I hear them shooting I just grab the ML and go out side and wait.....pretty soon here they come......if I see something I want I shoot! It's cool to shoot a Deer 20yds from your front Door! and the Drag is even nicer!
(BP)

I must confess two years ago i shot a doe from my deck in my socks and underwear. I was getting ready for work and it came walking through the yard. I thought no way am i gonna let it walk through during rifle season! It sure is neat to see them in the yard off and on during the year. I like living in the country!!

The old Groucho Marx joke... I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How that elephant got in my pajamas I will never know.


Several years ago, during bear season two bear hunters were on my property hunting. They stopped at the house to talk and have coffee. And were telling me they never saw a thing. I then pointed out in the woods and said, there's a bear. So he walked out the front door, and shot it. Field dressed it went 285 pounds. Kind of hard to hunt when you see the game in the yard.

My Dad was staying at the place one winter and I was feeding the birds that year. And I walked in the kitchen to see what he was looking at. Outside in the yard were seven grouse, standing in the yard under the bird feeder. Dad then mentioned he really liked Grouse... But I would not do it. I liked watching them too much.

My Best one yet Dave......it was Thanksgiving years ago, I was one that I did'nt care what day it was, if it was Hunting Season I was Hunting! Well my Wife insisted on me being at my Inlaws across the street from our House for Thanksgiving dinner as to not make her Mother MAD.....I agreed, but it killed me, it was Thanksgiving Day and you know what could happen on Thanksgiving Day during Hunting Season.
Anyway halfway through Thanksgiving Dinner I heard shots ring out and they were close by.......I could'nt stand it and ran to the window for a look, about 150-200yds away came a group of Does and in the lead was a Big Buck and they were headed right for my inlaws house........I ran outside to my Truck, grabbed a Primer, put it in the ML and when the 10 Point Buck was in my Inlaws Driveway I let em have it! When the group of Hunters heard my shot they came over and new it was me and said we should have known that it was gonna come your way and you'd get it!
Well I did and went back inside and finished my dinner. So Thanksgiving Dinner at your Inlaws is'nt always that bad of a idea!
(BP)

Nice shooting with that Bison Dave. I too am blessed to be able to shoot whenever I please here at home. The deer like to come in our yard and brouse on our apple trees and eat out of our garden. It is fun to watch them but my wife won't let me shoot them in our yard, she calls them pets.
Art

Great shooting Dave.

My hat is off to all you guys that can target shoot and hunt out your back door. I got a new ml the first of the month and am waiting for the range to open up so I can shoot it. Talk about haveing an itchy finger, I have it bad.

Well that must have been a sight! If that was me I would have scared the schmidt out of that poor deer.

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Here the weather was beautiful yesterday. It got up to 63 yesterday and will go to 70 today. Got some honey do stuff to get out of the way and make the wife happy.

Now as to Wednesday, I am going to the range and enjoy my MLs and have a bunch of fun. Think I will take the Knight Vision out and also check my NEF.

I got a new and improved breech plug for my Sidekick. It is a reengineered plug that I will not have to use those orange 209 holders. It will cut down on blow back and I can use my BH209 in it. My Sidekick has served me well and if this works I will be one happy camper.

Will hopefully have a good range report by end of week. I will be busy with a lot of club meeting at the range and hunt club first.

Larry

63 degrees!! Wow your summer comes soon. :D

Them sidekicks must be a good shooting gun. Almost everyone I have talked to that owns one never complained about the accuracy, just other little things. Did you purchase this breech plug or make it or have someone make it for you? Sounds interesting. I'd shoot my Knight Disc more but I hate wasting them orange primer jackets. And I am too cheep to get the conversion. Although the conversion changes it over to the red jackets I believe.

Have fun shooting. But make sure you get them Honey Do's done first or there's a bad night in Momma Town. :D

This plug was made by a company called Metric Unlimited, (http://www.metricsunlimited.com/

I got the info on this plug at Graygeard Outdoors. The plug works fine even though it came in looking really ruff. I shot it yesterday and have to say it works just great. I am almost totally happy with it with one exception. The 209 primers have a tendency to stick and this would make for an interesting situation in the woods getting a quick reload!

But the nice part is you can shoot BH209 powder with this plug. I am still in the process of testing different loads and primers. I started with Winchester 209 and CCI 209M primers. The Win 209 worked great. The CCi primers were really hard to remove from the plug. I still want to try Federal 209A primers.

So far the best load was my 300 gr. Hornaday XTP sabots and 85 grs. of BH209 powder. The more powder I used the greater the recoil and really no change in results. I was getting about 1.5" to 2.5" groups at 100 yds.