A scorcher out today!
 

Been outside for a couple hours shooting my Optima..... In a T SHIRT and sweatin my butt off!

Started out shooting the 270gr Powerbelt Platinums with 100gr Pyrodex Pellets and Winchester W209 primers. Best i could squeeze out of the 270s was roughly a 3 1/2" group. I'll know for certain the size once i get the pics off the camera once i am finished shooting.

Luckily i had a package of the 300gr Powerbelt Platinums so i switched over to those and just shook my head. These things shoot great with 90-100gr blackhorn209 and with 100gr pyrodex Pellets, No swabbing, a few minute cool down, i had 4 shots in a hole slightly bigger than a quarter and just one a touch away, and that was my first shot on a cold bore. :rock:

Those Pyrodex pellets are accurate as hell in this Optima!

Breaks over so time to load up with the 295gr hollow point powerbelts and see how those do.

Pics coming!

i used two 50 grain Pyrodex pellets and 100 grains of Pyrodex RS interchangeably in my CVA StagHorn. There was no difference in POI.

No pics? When do you work MD? I find it very hard to get time and go to a range.

I'll get pics up soon. Cleaning rifles and refreshening my supplies.

It was 14ºs here and I had to shovel six inches of snow. But I do got the range clear. Although its supposed to get cold the next couple days. Should have shot today.

Alright got the pics resized and up.

Optima - 100 yards - 100gr Pyrodex Pellets - 270gr Platinum Powerbelt. Didn't like the 270s at all.


Next up i changed to the 300gr Platinum Powerbelt with 100gr Pyrodex Pellets.
For the life of me, i dont know which hole shot #3 went into. They impacted surprisingly low.


Just to make sure it wasnt a fluke, i took a 5 shot group. All this shooting and ZERO swabbing.


No mistake about that! 100gr Pyrodex Pellets and the 300gr PB Platinum is a winner for this rifle.

I had to switch to the smaller dot as the Konus Pro 3-10x44 has super fine cross hairs. That orange dot i think is maybe 1/4" in diameter.

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After taking the rifle home to clean out, It cleaned up with 2 patches when using muzzle foam. Followed up with a single patch of bore scrubber just to clean it better and went out again with the 295gr powerbelt hollow points and 100gr Pyrodex Pellets.

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Switched muzzle loaders and brought out my nephews Wolf with 100gr blackhorn209, cci 209m primers and the 295gr Powerbelt hollow points.
If you can make it out, thats shot #1 though this $55 Bushnell 3-9x40 scope @ 100 yards.



That load kicks like a mule though so one of these days i am going to zero it in again with its normal 90gr load. Its amazing how much less it kicks with 10 grains less BH209.