user 19957
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- Apr 13, 2016
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Having never shot BP before, it was quite the experience! More of a hard shove than a punch as far as recoil goes. Fired 5 rounds of Hornady 385 grain lead bullets with 50 grains of BH209 powder (CCI primers). All shots were completely hand held. The first two shots, at 7 yards, were on the boundary between the bullseye and the 10 ring, and were touching each other. I then sent the target all the way down to the end of the lane (25 yards), for the remaining 3. The 1st of those was in the 7 ring, then I went downhill from there. #4 was off target, but still on paper, #5 hit about 1/4" from the edge of the paper.
This gun is stupid accurate (even in my hands), and the trigger is very nice. Next time I'm going to try shooting it from a rest, and get the red/green dot sighted in a bit. Its fun! More of a deep sonorous BOOM! than my .303 Enfield which has a "sharper" BOOM if that makes any sense. This thing is a ton of fun - puts a stupid grin on my face with every shot!
I'm really glad I got one of those ball shaped bullet starters - I really had to hit the thing to get the bullets started, but once they slipped in the bbl, pushing them down the rest of the way wasn't bad - although I found out the hard way what happens if you forget to remove your spent primer before reloading: Air spring!
This gun is stupid accurate (even in my hands), and the trigger is very nice. Next time I'm going to try shooting it from a rest, and get the red/green dot sighted in a bit. Its fun! More of a deep sonorous BOOM! than my .303 Enfield which has a "sharper" BOOM if that makes any sense. This thing is a ton of fun - puts a stupid grin on my face with every shot!
I'm really glad I got one of those ball shaped bullet starters - I really had to hit the thing to get the bullets started, but once they slipped in the bbl, pushing them down the rest of the way wasn't bad - although I found out the hard way what happens if you forget to remove your spent primer before reloading: Air spring!