Last Tuesday I took the Traditions Pursuit to the range and shot an inch and a quarter 3 shot group two and three quarter inches high and one and a half inches left of the bulls eye at 100 yards.
So I took the same rifle back to try to adjust the scope and put that group into the bulls eye at the same distance. Oh well, I tried.
Here is the target from last week. The taped over holes were the group from last week and the untaped holes are this weeks effort to bring that group into the bulls eye.

I was not having a good day. I was having one problem after another. After hitting the bulls eye the next shot (not numbered) went high left.
Here's the next target.


After that one I figured I might as well try some powerbelts.
The bottom holes were from holding zero on the bulls eye.
The upper holes were from holding zero at the top of the target.
245 grain Aerotip Powerbelt and 90 grains fffg Goex.

Darn it, I sure like the way Powerbelts fly. 245 grain Aerotip Powerbelt with 90 grains fffg Goex.
All Targets were at a distance of 100 yards.

new sabots

They were supposed to be the same bullet sabot combo. That's what the package said. But the sabots were taller and grabbed on to the short starter and ram rod when I seated them.

I had a pack of the 240 or 250gr TC packaged XTP's that were given to me a few years back. I think they came with MMP short black sabots and were almost unloadable in a CVA Magbolt. I buy pretty much all of my bullets and sabots seperately now as its cheaper.

what size is your bore when you no your bore size you add .004 thouands to the bullet and sabot diameter to start then add .001 are .002 up are down to see what your gun likes and loads buy a mick it will help you when you use different bullets and sabot combo say your bore is .501 and your gun likes .505 use this on all your bullet and sabot combos this will help you out good luck

Here's the problem. On the trip before last to the range I was shooting T/C Mag express sabots packaged with 245 gr. XTP's. They shot good groups and I had no problems loading them. The next trip I used the same bullet sabot combo only it was in a different package. The problem is the sabots in the second pack were a little longer. The loading jag when sitting on top of the bullet sat below the top of the sabot. When pushed into the barrrel the sabot would close arround the jag and grab onto it making it impossible to remove from the barrel. Any suggestions as to how to solve this problem would be appreciated.

Use a set of fingernail clippers to cut down the petals on the sabot some.

I used scissors to cut them back a little but they were not as uniform as the original and the bullets seemed to fly irratically.
The loading jag from Thompson Center I was using is one designed to not hurt the tip of the bullet so the nose of the bullet goes into it causing the jag to go farther down onto the bullet. I had to stop using that loading jag to keep from getting my ram rod stuck. Hopefully I wasn't messing up the hollow point of the XTP when loading it. It was strange though how I couldn't seem to get a group going. There were some terrific shots made but then the next shot sucked. Like I said, I was having a bad day and maybe that was all there was to it. We'll see the next time out. I think the scope is set to zero on the bulls eye at 100 yards due to the few bulls eyes I did manage to hit. If I can get one good group into the bulls eye at 100 yards I can move on to the next rifle. I hope I can get them, the Thompson Center sabots, to work. I just got 100 of them in the mail when I got home from the range yesterday. And I have about 100 225 grain speer hollow points to use with them.

Yeah, that does happen.