Lobbing lead for fun
 

I decided to try lobbing some of Ed's 465's just for fun and to check the ballistic program I am using.
Gun: Knight original Disc Lehigh bare primer.
Powder: 90 gr 777 3f
Primer : triple 7
bullet: Ed's 465
.060 veggie wad
swab with spit patch after each shot.
I grabbed the disc and headed out . As I was looking through the scope I realized it was a 9X not a 14X. I had grabbed the wrong disc. I decided rather than to go back I would just use it. After all this was just for fun. I took the first shot and it was low with the lead as I had been shooting a saboted bullet with 130 gr powder. I adjusted then scope and it only took 2 adjustments to get it close enough

first target




shot # 1 from 150 yards. .
Shots 2 and 3 from 200 yards. nothing to brag about but even with 9 power the target wasn't very big.

second target



I shot these 2 from almost 300. The farthest I could get without changing directions was actually 291 by the rangefinder
but 300 sounds better :mrgreen:
Since the scope is a bdc 250 I couldn't use the circles at this range without dialing down the power. I went to 4x .That really made the bull small. as matter of fact the red bull fit inside the reticle circle easily. But at least I hit the target.
unfortunately when I changed directions and went further I did not even hit paper so I gave up there. So even though I took the wrong gun and didn't accomplish anything I had fun.
according to my APP at 200 yds I have 17.8" of drop at 250 I have 40" drop and at 291 I have 65.2 and of course at 400 I had 161" but I didn't even hit paper at that range .

Good report Sharpsshooter. Those two shots at 200 yards were 4" apart. That's about what I got with a six-shot group at 200 yards with 85 grains GOEX in the Green Mountain barreled Renegade.



That's about two MOA, which I figure ain't too shabby for slinging heavy lead out of a sidelock. A better shooter than I might even tighten that up a bit.

My one try at 300 yards yielded a 6.25" five-shot group, which pleased me quite well. If you want to read an old post, I reported that range session here: http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/blac...300-yards.html

Sounds like fun. Where I used to shoot 300 yards is all grown in now which makes it an impossibility. It would take a chain saw and a brush hog to get it to where you could shoot that distance. Heck even today we had to use a sickle to cut a swath 100 yards long to clear the golden rod and grass out of the line of sight.

Which is why when i shoot long range, i twist the elevation dial not the power dial. Shooting long range by twisting up the elevation dial works much better for me than dialing down the power dial. Reducing power to shoot long range seems backwards. Another thing i like to do, is after sighting in at 100 yard, i dial up for 200 yard. After shooting at 200 yard, i fine tune the 200 yard aim; who cares if this put the 100 yard impact, off a little bit.

......today while walking around some, i accidentally found a place where i can shoot 300 yard, if i walk the target out. Soon as the cows are gone, i might just have me a good place to do some 300 yard shooting...........maybe..........maybe not.










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I agree 100% . You are so right , and if it hadn't been for 2 small factors i would have done just that .
1. For some reason i was out of clicks before 150 yards
2. The Omega doesn't seem to track very accurately like my monarch or Vorteks
Otherwise i would have done that rather than shrinking the target down til it was miniscule .