Today I decided that since I have been trying to get my range built, that I would give it a try. I needed to shoot, plus i wanted to try some different loads or rather bullets. I also was curious if the new barrel that TC sent me was going to be as good as the one that I ruined last year by inadvertently shooting my ramrod threw a deer at a mere 20 yards. This barrel was actually the endeavor barrel with the XT speed breech. I prepared for a day of shooting and cleaning as usual. I had my windex patches to swab between shots. I zeroed the rifle with 2 shots at 26 yards by my range finder after bore sighting. I moved my target to what I thought was fifty when I built the range, but my range finder said 48 yards 3 times so it is 48 yards. the first shot hit about 1 1/2" high and 1" to the right. the secound was about a 1/2" high and 1" to the right. I swabed with windex patches between shots. I was shooting 120 gr of Pyrodex RS and the 240 gr XTP and the supplied sabot. With my other barrel I shot the 300 gr SST and the supplied sabot with 120 gr of pyrodex RS. That was a good load for me but my reconstructive surgery on my right shoulder is not partial to the recoil. Thats why I had decided to try the 240 gr XTP and besides I have several boxes since they were marked down at rural king. I fired the 3rd shot touching the first one. This load appears to have some potential. I have several nikon scopes laying around but I chose to put a little cheaper scope on my encore. the scope on my rifle is a AR rifle scope from SightX, its a 3x9x42 and has tactical turrents and is a very short scope with remarkable light gathering capability. I am going to try some longer shots; however, most of my shots are 50 yds or less. This is actually one of two range reports from today. At the time I started it was 49*F, 88% humidity and the wind was WSW @ 5mph which is blowing from left to right at my range.

Well that is some real good shooting. That load would sure get the job done. Nice shooting.

Slow Burn

That looks like a really good start at load development to me... Nice shooting...

That was my first experience with the speed breech and I forgot I was using Remington 209 primers. The only thing that really puzzled me is the primers hung in the speed breech. I am going to try some others maybe later on this week.

Slow Burn
My Endeavor shoots very well with the 200grain 50/40 Shock Wave and even with 110 grains of Blackhorn the recoil is very mild, I have used them on deer and hogs and they do an excellent job so they make a very good hunting bullet.