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Finally got back out today to shoot some Pure lead bullets in the Mk-95 .54 cal that I cast while on vacation a couple weeks ago and even cast a few yesterday while it was raining. It was a nice day here on Long Island but Windy, as usual , going left to right and switching diagonally from over my left shoulder to the target. It was sunny and about 45* when I got set up and got to about 55 when I stopped. Club had a match on the rifle range so had to go down to the 50 yard pit. I tried 3 different loads, 80, 90 and 100 grainsV of BH, CCI 250 LRMP, and MMP Purple sabots. had to stop when I ran out of Sabots, someone forgot to add a new bag to the range box. :d'oh!:
I print my own targets and this is one I use a lot. Problem with it is that my crosshair covers it up and I do tend to wiggle around a bit. These rifles are real light and have a skinny forearm so for me to shoot a decent group I have to put a real tight hold on the rifle fore and aft plus lean into it, so sometimes I get a little high/low or left right when the shot breaks just from wiggling around. Oh well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. :wink:
On this first target I tried shooting like most do and not swabbing between shots. This never really seemed to work in my KRB7 and on my older MK-95 barrels. After the 4th shot wandered high I tried a dry patch swab and shot 5 came back to the group. Out of curiosity I then left the bore dirty for shot 6 and it went back out a bit. I noticed that if I don't swab between shots I feel sabot sort of chatter on the way down the bore, I don't get that when I swab with the dry patch. I sort of wandered if that is just due to the older barrels on these rifles. Anyway swabbing seems to work for me so I continued it the rest on the morning.
This was the target for the 80 grainV load. You can see shot 5 hit #3 after the dry swab. Still was not too happy with at load for 50 yards.
This was with 90 grainsV. That is 8 rounds. Had 3 wander on me but 5 in that 12 o'clock cluster. Getting more happy.
This is with 95gnsV 10 shots.
Last target with my last 5 sabots and 100 grainsV of BH.
Some of the vertical was probably shooter related but overall I am happy so far with the way it is coming together. I plan to use this rifle and bullet on Deer this year and can't wait till first week of December.
I print my own targets and this is one I use a lot. Problem with it is that my crosshair covers it up and I do tend to wiggle around a bit. These rifles are real light and have a skinny forearm so for me to shoot a decent group I have to put a real tight hold on the rifle fore and aft plus lean into it, so sometimes I get a little high/low or left right when the shot breaks just from wiggling around. Oh well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. :wink:
On this first target I tried shooting like most do and not swabbing between shots. This never really seemed to work in my KRB7 and on my older MK-95 barrels. After the 4th shot wandered high I tried a dry patch swab and shot 5 came back to the group. Out of curiosity I then left the bore dirty for shot 6 and it went back out a bit. I noticed that if I don't swab between shots I feel sabot sort of chatter on the way down the bore, I don't get that when I swab with the dry patch. I sort of wandered if that is just due to the older barrels on these rifles. Anyway swabbing seems to work for me so I continued it the rest on the morning.
This was the target for the 80 grainV load. You can see shot 5 hit #3 after the dry swab. Still was not too happy with at load for 50 yards.
This was with 90 grainsV. That is 8 rounds. Had 3 wander on me but 5 in that 12 o'clock cluster. Getting more happy.
This is with 95gnsV 10 shots.
Last target with my last 5 sabots and 100 grainsV of BH.
Some of the vertical was probably shooter related but overall I am happy so far with the way it is coming together. I plan to use this rifle and bullet on Deer this year and can't wait till first week of December.