Observations from The Range
02-02-2013, 03:32 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 921
Observations from The Range
I had an opportunity to hit the range this afternoon. It was a very nice day after some wicked cold earlier this week. I thought it would be a good day to mess around withe the Disc Elite. I do have a few observations which may be of interest to the Board.
1) With the addition of one .005 shim and a Win 209 Primer, the Lehigh conversion is completely blowback free. One shim crushes the primer from .300 to .295. That .005 crush seems to be the ticket. Anyone who uses a Lehigh conversion should look into this if you experience any blowback. Now, all I really need to clean is the barrel and BP.
2) I just don't see the first shot with BH 209 having a different POI. Below I was shooting 90 grains of BH, with 180 grain XTP's. I used the Tan MMP sabots. One dry patch, one primer to clear the plug and fire away. This is the third gun I've checked with the same result.
3) A warm barrel really does seem to impact POI. In the below two targets, it was the third shot that flew. I was starting cold and the shooting 1,2,3. I know it's not optimal but I was experimenting.
1) With the addition of one .005 shim and a Win 209 Primer, the Lehigh conversion is completely blowback free. One shim crushes the primer from .300 to .295. That .005 crush seems to be the ticket. Anyone who uses a Lehigh conversion should look into this if you experience any blowback. Now, all I really need to clean is the barrel and BP.
2) I just don't see the first shot with BH 209 having a different POI. Below I was shooting 90 grains of BH, with 180 grain XTP's. I used the Tan MMP sabots. One dry patch, one primer to clear the plug and fire away. This is the third gun I've checked with the same result.
3) A warm barrel really does seem to impact POI. In the below two targets, it was the third shot that flew. I was starting cold and the shooting 1,2,3. I know it's not optimal but I was experimenting.
02-02-2013, 04:07 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
Josmund
Shoot!!! it looks to me like the MMP Tans really held a nice little group in there on there on the first target.
I shoot them almost exclusively...
The shim ideal in the the BP appears to have worked very...
Shoot!!! it looks to me like the MMP Tans really held a nice little group in there on there on the first target.
I shoot them almost exclusively...
The shim ideal in the the BP appears to have worked very...
02-02-2013, 05:11 PM
#4
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 98
Im with Sabotloader, The tan MMP sabots looked pretty good in the picture. I know in my Knight 45's ,I was trying to use the older Knight brown sabots (which were a bear to load) and changed to the new tan MMP sabots and the groups got alot smaller an were alot easyer to load.
02-02-2013, 05:54 PM
#5
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 921
I was just messing around today. The best performer to date for me has been the SST 200's and the Harvester Smooth Blue with the same bullet and the Tam MMP a close second. I believe if I would have waited on the third shot, it would have been tighter.
The five shot group was with plenty of time between shots.
The five shot group was with plenty of time between shots.
