eatsleephunt

Who's shooting the Knight Disc Extreme, and what are some longer range accuracy loads you like?

What powder, in your experience, has the best accuracy combined with the least clean-up/maintenance factors in your opinion? Particularly something for the shooter that doesn't shoot that often, but wants things to go smooth when they do.

Is it a 250 yard gun?

Pellet powder users?

Leupold 4.5 - 14 x 40 Long Range reticle?

ronlaughlin

My Extreme is good to at least 250 yard. A load i had good luck with is 110g Blackhorn Powder, 300g 44 caliber XTP, smooth green Harvester sabot, W209 primer. When i first shot this rifle, i was disappointed in the accuracy. Glass bedding, seemed to make a very big difference. Oh, and i always use the bare primer plug, and adapter.

Cleaning the rifle is no hassle.

When i shoot the rifle things generally go smooth with no issues.

Trying to use regular scopes with them fancy reticles just frustrated me; they are set up for much faster velocity than the 1925 fps, i get out of mine. The scope on the Extreme now, is a 1.5-5 VX3 that was purchased from Leupold Custom Shop with a CDS dial modification. When i shoot 250 yard, i twist the elevation dial to 2.5, and have at it; it works, yes it does.

DiscMan

I shot the Disc 45 most of the year. My gun likes 110 grains of Blackhorn 209 with a Bloodline 200 grain in a Harvester light blue crush rib. I killed a nice 9 point at two hundred and seventy six yards this year. The 185 Bloodline works well with 100 grains of Blackhorn. Easy clean up. I tried a prototype 150 bloodline in front of 150 grains of Blackhorn. It was clocked at a little over 2700 but had no accuracy. The same bullet with 100 grains of Blackhorn is a three shot one hole gun. Good Luck

a1smokepole

I us 290gr tez in Harvester black crush rub sabot 110gr BH209 CCI 209M primer

Josmund

With practice, its a 250 yard gun.

i shoot my 45 with a 200 grain SST to 200 with good results. I don't have a range further.
110 of BH 209, Wichester 209, Harvester smooth blue.

Out of the 50 it will shoot most anything well. I like 300 grain bullets and have used several but it likes the .452 diameter with a Harvester long smooth black sabot.

Salar600

Loose powder, load development and you should be good to go for 200yds shots. Further that it is possible but you will need range time....

BTW, mon MHC shoots moa with
.40 200grSST, 115gr BH209, W209
.45 250grSST, 110gr BH209, W209
.45 300grMZ, 100gr BH209, W209

Good luck

cayugad

I see that Sportsman's Guide has a .52 caliber, 26 inch stainless steel barrel, composite stock Knight Disc Extreme rifle for $300.00. Even less if you are a guide member. I had to laugh because the Optima was just as much as the Extreme.

If I had to buy a large game, long distance shooting rifle, this might be what I would select. From all I have read they are good shooters, lots of knock down, and guaranteed to 200 yards accurate.

pooldoc

I shoot MZ only and have 3 Knights; a Long rang hunter, a master hunter and a disc elite. All have target triggers, good scopes and the LRH has been glass bedded and the other 2 have composite stocks. All 3 have Lehigh bare primer breech plugs. My base loads all start with 110 gr(vol) of BH 209, CCI 209M primers and Harvester Crush Rib sabots(black or yellow depending on bullet choice). By a small margin the 300 gr Harvester PT Gold is my most accurate load, followed closely by the Hornady 300 gr SST bullet and the 290 gr Barnes Spit Fire TMZ boat tail. All 3 produce 1 inch or better groups @ 100 yds. My LRH with the Harvester bullet has produced a .297 inch 3 shot group at a 100 yds. The deer where I hunt in S. Texas have smaller bodies than elsewhere, so I've been using the SST the last 3 years with great results. I use the other 2 bullets for larger deer, elk etc. I have no hesitancy in taking a 175 yd. shot, but you're really pushing the envelope after that. I prefer to pass a good animal beyond 200 yds that wound it and spend 2 days tracking it. If u want to shoot much at that range you need to spend a lot of range time and experiment with what your rifle shoots best. Ballistic tables are no substitute for bench time and lots of note taking. Good luck

eatsleephunt

I am in the process of having the action glass bedded and the barrel free floated. The gunsmith and I are coming up with some ideas for adapting the ram rod cleat to grip from either side, rather than push up from the bottom against the barrel.

Ronlaughlin, I would be interested in knowing more about that scope.

My rifle is a .50 cal. Harvester seems to be a brand a lot of folks have found reliable.

BH209 seems to be the powder.

Anybody have experience using the pellet powders?

ronlaughlin

First you could purchase the 4.5-14 X 40 scope set up for the Custom Dial System (cds dial). This includes a 'free' dial, which will be engraved for your particular load/rifle. Once you know your load, it's muzzle velocity, and how it flies, you would contact Leupold, and relay to them, the specifics, for your own cds dial.