Another trip to the Dinger Farm
 

Nothing great to report - just another good outing with a Knight

Different rifle this time - I took my Knight Stainless Steel 45 cal fast twist.

The goal of the trip was to confirm that the rifle was sighted in with the Lehigh .400x230CF-HP Brass bullet. And a second goal was to load a couple of the resized Lehigh .458x260 Sabotless bullets. They have been resized to .451.

I did not use a paper target at all as I was sure the rifle was sighted in from a previous trip. So, I setup 5 clays at 100 yards. You can see the Lentils are starting to pop up and using clays is going to get more difficult to see. The adjacent field is Winter Wheat and it is already to tall place clays. It will not be long before I move to the Pope farm to shoot. Gas is to darn expensive to drive the truck out and back to the Rock Pit.

The two bullets on the right are the two versions of the Lehigh .400x230 I wanted to test. The red sabot is a special run of a MMP sabot that Del pushed out of the MMP factory several years ago when I suggested that a sabot with a longer petals might well be needed for the longer ML bullets being made. The Tan sabot is the normal MMP 40-45 sabot.



It did turn out to be a very good day - actually a couple of hours - leisurely shooting at the farm. The rifle and the bullets destroyed the clays. Although... the 3rd bird either from right or the left did cause me a problem. You can see that I set it up to deep in the soil, and was really difficult to see or to get a bullet to without hitting the soil. It did take make me two shots to pummel it - but I got it!

Mike did you have any trouble sizing down the .458s to .451"? I cast some 500 gr bullets the other day with a 10 BHN and had no problem sizing from .458" down to .451" but this was after I lubed the grooves first.

Resizing the bullets from 458 down to 451 wasn't really a problem. But, you need to know that I am not resizing the whole bullet. The bull body (ogive) is .449. So resizing with a .451 die doesn't touch the bullet body. It only resizes the drive barbs that are .458



Sizing complete!

yes, I believe it is...

Just running them through a bench resizer - works well