Thunder & Lightning @ the Farm
06-12-2012, 03:44 PM
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Thunder & Lightning @ the Farm
Shouldn't have but I took a few hours off this afternoon to run to the farm to shoot the Lightning.
It was not a bad first outing with a new gun, but I was hoping for a little better at a 100.
Only shot the one type of bullet and one powder load to do the testing. Since the gun was new to me and I had installed a WGRS sight the Nimrodder sent along plus I had change the front site to a sight I had taken off one of my Omegas to get the heigth I thought I needed. I did bore sight it @ 13 yards here in the house.
25 yards was the first target setup and shoot. My first three shots from the lightning impressed me. I then made a sight adjustment and ran the target out to 100. That group did not impress me but I can live it right now. I do have to change the front sight again to a lower blade setup. So I decided to stay with the sight for now as it was. Set a bunch of clay pigeons @ 75 and worked over them.
One other thing, when I was working the gun in the house, I did feel a little bit of creep in the trigger, but today on the bench that creep seemed a mile long... I will get that adjusted before the next trip - hopefully that will help me tighten up the 100 yard group.
It really looks to me like this Lehigh Sabotless is going to load and shoot just fine from this short barreld Lightning. I will get some velocities in the next trip out hopefully.
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It was not a bad first outing with a new gun, but I was hoping for a little better at a 100.
Only shot the one type of bullet and one powder load to do the testing. Since the gun was new to me and I had installed a WGRS sight the Nimrodder sent along plus I had change the front site to a sight I had taken off one of my Omegas to get the heigth I thought I needed. I did bore sight it @ 13 yards here in the house.
25 yards was the first target setup and shoot. My first three shots from the lightning impressed me. I then made a sight adjustment and ran the target out to 100. That group did not impress me but I can live it right now. I do have to change the front sight again to a lower blade setup. So I decided to stay with the sight for now as it was. Set a bunch of clay pigeons @ 75 and worked over them.
One other thing, when I was working the gun in the house, I did feel a little bit of creep in the trigger, but today on the bench that creep seemed a mile long... I will get that adjusted before the next trip - hopefully that will help me tighten up the 100 yard group.
It really looks to me like this Lehigh Sabotless is going to load and shoot just fine from this short barreld Lightning. I will get some velocities in the next trip out hopefully.
06-12-2012, 06:56 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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A four-shot group of 2.5" at 100 yards with peep sights and you were diasppointed? Sabotloader, I'm afraid you're getting a bit spoiled. I'd have been smiling all the way home.
06-12-2012, 07:02 PM
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