Don't you hate it when this happens...
10-10-2006, 09:35 AM
#1
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
Don't you hate it when this happens...
My buddies and I have been getting ready for our annual week of camping out and hunting deer on our farms in eastern NC...For the past 5 years or so I have been shooting the Federal Premium 85gr BTHP in my Ruger .243...I have owned this rifle since 1980, and felt like I knew it pretty well...It threw a monkey wrench into the equation this year...For some reason, with certain lot numbers it won't group as well as it has in the past....I checked out everything I could think of...Then went back to Remington CoreLokts...With these it groups under an inch...In fact, I sighted in with a box that was 10 year old then bought a couple of new boxes and shot it twice...Both bullets were touching and 2 inches high at 100 yards...Looks like I'm going back to them...
In the meantime I sighted in both of their guns with the Federals...Tried 3 different lots...Both grouped well...That's what they are going to use because I have about 8 boxes left...
It amazes me how guns teach you something a little different from time to time...
My point being...Its always good to check your gun, I do it several times during the hunting season, and its always good to have another loading that you know your gun likes...Finally...guns can have a mind of their own, it pays to listen to them and not try to shoot what you like, but what they like...
In the meantime I sighted in both of their guns with the Federals...Tried 3 different lots...Both grouped well...That's what they are going to use because I have about 8 boxes left...
It amazes me how guns teach you something a little different from time to time...
My point being...Its always good to check your gun, I do it several times during the hunting season, and its always good to have another loading that you know your gun likes...Finally...guns can have a mind of their own, it pays to listen to them and not try to shoot what you like, but what they like...
10-11-2006, 08:28 AM
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
Posts: 11,474
RE: Don't you hate it when this happens...
Good idea. You are certainly right. When I bought my first reloader I had a new 30-06 BDL. I shot countless rounds through it. Every bullet I could think of, I tried. As time went by it would change what it liked because of throat erosion and bore wear. I finally shot it out and rebareled it to 280 and started all over again.
10-11-2006, 10:12 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Baileysville, WV
Posts: 2,925
RE: Don't you hate it when this happens...
Good ol corelokts...never understood how something so junky shot so good..lol. They length seems different on every shell yet they group like nobody's business...go figure. Seems like all of my guns love them.
