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Got my house work done this morning and while Terry was doing her volunteer work at the food bank I headed to the farm.
Cleaned the gun Wednesday after the first round @ Dinger's. I used Hoppes to clean the bore and then as the very last step applied the Montana X-Treme bore conditioner...
On a whim, I swapped out scopes on the Disc - took the Bushnell Elite off and installed the new Loppy Ultimate Slam that I had for 3 months with no place to put it. I wanted to try it out. Laser bore sighted it at home Thursday evening. I set the laser to match the same spot on the wall as the 3200 was hitting - figured this would get me close.
Step up the bench @ the farm - ran one dry patch through the bore(both sides). Shot one primer - dry patched again with the first patch....
Here is a picture of the range - if you look very carefully out there @ 94 yards you will see a very small target board (left of the patch of snow and low. This field was dry peas last year thing it might be spring wheat this year.
Shot the 3 shots @ the 25 yard target and there was not much reason to adjust scope so I changed the target and moved it to 100 yards. Shot 2 shots @ target POI was 4 o'clock low. Adjusted the scope and shot for effect... It was good! - shot 7 more times...
The reticule in the Ultimate Slam is far more busy than the standard ballistic reticule I am use to in the Bushnell. But once I go use to it it actually helped in target alignment when shooting this paper target. So at this time I'll say "I am impressed and I think I like it..." But i think I am more impressed how well that Disc shoots and these Sierras were new to me also. Normally I shoot Hornady's at paper but I like these better. They are a little more expensive than Hornady and a little less than Speer .458's and a heck of lot less expensive than Noslers.
Now the last part of the test... At now time today did I use a damp windex patch to patch the barrel with while shooting. I used one dry patch ( the same one I started the day with) to patch after ever 4 shots. The dry patch never really even felt like it might get stuck. I ran it to the bottom of the barrel and back out. Just not that much fouling. At the end of the day when i packing to leave I ran 3 windex patches. The first patch on the right was #1 - it came out fairly dirty (ran it both sides). The one in the middle was patch #2 and and the one on the left was the last patch which came out fairly clean. Ran a dry patch pcked up and came home to begin the cleaning job. The one patch you see by itself was the single dry patch that I used for the trip.
Cleaned the gun Wednesday after the first round @ Dinger's. I used Hoppes to clean the bore and then as the very last step applied the Montana X-Treme bore conditioner...
On a whim, I swapped out scopes on the Disc - took the Bushnell Elite off and installed the new Loppy Ultimate Slam that I had for 3 months with no place to put it. I wanted to try it out. Laser bore sighted it at home Thursday evening. I set the laser to match the same spot on the wall as the 3200 was hitting - figured this would get me close.
Step up the bench @ the farm - ran one dry patch through the bore(both sides). Shot one primer - dry patched again with the first patch....
Here is a picture of the range - if you look very carefully out there @ 94 yards you will see a very small target board (left of the patch of snow and low. This field was dry peas last year thing it might be spring wheat this year.
Shot the 3 shots @ the 25 yard target and there was not much reason to adjust scope so I changed the target and moved it to 100 yards. Shot 2 shots @ target POI was 4 o'clock low. Adjusted the scope and shot for effect... It was good! - shot 7 more times...
The reticule in the Ultimate Slam is far more busy than the standard ballistic reticule I am use to in the Bushnell. But once I go use to it it actually helped in target alignment when shooting this paper target. So at this time I'll say "I am impressed and I think I like it..." But i think I am more impressed how well that Disc shoots and these Sierras were new to me also. Normally I shoot Hornady's at paper but I like these better. They are a little more expensive than Hornady and a little less than Speer .458's and a heck of lot less expensive than Noslers.
Now the last part of the test... At now time today did I use a damp windex patch to patch the barrel with while shooting. I used one dry patch ( the same one I started the day with) to patch after ever 4 shots. The dry patch never really even felt like it might get stuck. I ran it to the bottom of the barrel and back out. Just not that much fouling. At the end of the day when i packing to leave I ran 3 windex patches. The first patch on the right was #1 - it came out fairly dirty (ran it both sides). The one in the middle was patch #2 and and the one on the left was the last patch which came out fairly clean. Ran a dry patch pcked up and came home to begin the cleaning job. The one patch you see by itself was the single dry patch that I used for the trip.
