That's amazing accuracy. Can't wait to see how it works on game. Great shooting!!
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Originally Posted by Grouse45
(Post 4186786)
That's amazing accuracy. Can't wait to see how it works on game. Great shooting!!
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that is some great shooting!! No doubt about it. And with that much powder behind it.. that is a massive load as far as velocity and energy.
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Hard to complain with those groups!! Great shooting SL!!
Where's all your snow? I know...we have it here in VA...:poke: |
Originally Posted by toytruck
(Post 4186861)
Hard to complain with those groups!! Great shooting SL!!
Where's all your snow? I know...we have it here in VA...:poke: We are in spring like weather - when I was going to shoot yesterday I complained to Terry about being cool - it was 43* - Feb. 25 - unheard of. I am so accustomed to the good weather it is drizzling here a little bit now - rain not snow - and I want to run to the farm to shoot 1/28 and that field will probably be muddy! So dang the rain!!!! |
Hoping you get decent results if and when you shoot with a 1:28 twist.
I am very happy shooting my Speer DeepCurls and occasional FPBs but this bullet has me intrigued enough that I might try them out in my .50 Disc Extreme. I don't think MMP makes a .50cal sabot for a .40 cal bullet but am pretty sure Harvester does. Any chance Lehigh will make these in a .44 or .45? edit - MMP does make a .50cal sabot for a .40 cal bullet, the blue HPH. |
Harvester makes two, regular and crush rib.
The future Lehigh 230 grain 40-cal has perked my interest. I have plenty of 180-200 grain in 40-cal already. The only larger 40-cal I currently own is the 50/40 Precision Extreme Elite 260. So I'm looking to add-on to that larger segment, but at the same time, not spend my current 2nd option, Dead-Center-type money for it. The Exteme Elites were 75 cents a-piece. That fits my budget. |
Testing in a 1/28 Twist 50 cal Rifle.
After shooting yesterday, I still had that nagging thought - I wonder if these will shoot in a 1-28 twist rifle. So this morning I did return to the farm with a Knight DISC Elite in 50 cal. The weather was lousy, well not really as compared to a normal winter, but it was raining the field was a muddy mess. But I needed to know.
You can see in this pic with the target and muddy tracks in the background and how wet it is and really can not see the mud to the best effect - but believe Palouse mud being mostly clay is yicky stuff. Back to business - I used the same materials that I had used the day before, but today I only shot three 80 grain loads and three 120 grain loads. Plus a change of sabots - I was shooting the MMP 40x50 Blue. I popped three primers to semi foul the bore loaded up the first round and decided what-the-heck and shot it at the target. Followed that with 2 more 80 grain shots on the target. I was thinking if a 80 grain load through a 1-28 - that should really be a good test for stability. Looking through the scope at the target I really only saw 2 holes and one of them was bigger than normal. I feared the worst 'Tumbling' again. But I was positive I heard the bullet hit all three shots. So I walked out in the mud and checked - I did hit it 3 times but it was hard to tell and no tumble. walked back and loaded up the hunting load 120 grains 3 shots basically the same results... So it really appears to me that the bullet will stabilize in a 1-28 twist. I am hoping to get out again tomorrow and maybe get some chrono times. |
Originally Posted by hubby11
(Post 4186895)
Hoping you get decent results if and when you shoot with a 1:28 twist.
I am very happy shooting my Speer DeepCurls and occasional FPBs but this bullet has me intrigued enough that I might try them out in my .50 Disc Extreme. I don't think MMP makes a .50cal sabot for a .40 cal bullet but am pretty sure Harvester does. Any chance Lehigh will make these in a .44 or .45? edit - MMP does make a .50cal sabot for a .40 cal bullet, the blue HPH. I was told that Lehigh would eventually makes these ML bullets. They are hoping to have 4 of these available in the next 3 weeks. I think they were running some the .452x250 yesterday for testing. XP - Xtreme Penetrator .400 185gr .400 200gr .452 250gr .452 275gr CF - Controlled Fracture .400 185gr .400 230gr .452 250gr .452 275gr |
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