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Shooting the Redemption made me think about the hammerless or strikerfire type of design. So I decided to shoot another gun with the similar design. The Knight Vision. This is an older Knight but I was told by a forum member that use to own it that it had been all redone by Knight and even had a new barrel.
I mounted a scope and off I go. This range session was one of the most frustrating ever but it turned out ok.
The gun rest wouldn't work. I couldn't get a field of view no matter what. I had brought a front Caldwell bag along and so I went that route . Or I attempted to.
The rear bag wouldn't give me enough elevation . Luckily I had a squeeze bag that is for my long range shooting. It was a perfect fit. One little sqeeze and it was right on
.
So now I'm ready. I went to pop a couple primers before I load. Hmmm... the gun won't close with the primer. Ok then. I switch primers. Still won't close. Well I figure the breechplug needs tightened up some but I didn't bring a wrench. Figures. So back to the house I go. I should have known right away that this was not going to be easy.:s4:
I tightened the breechplug . Still wouldn't close. I took it all the way out and saw some Teflon tape that had gotten down toward the front of the plug. I cleaned it off and just greased the plug and cranked it down tight. That did it. It fired . So I head back.
Heres a couple targets I didn't want to post all of them for space reasons.
Basically, first shot was not on paper. I'm at 50 yards.
Ok then I walk up to 13 yards and fire and it was one of the holes on the left side of the right target.
Ok I moved it 48 clicks right.
Go back to 50 and shoot. Not on paper.
Ok back to 13 yards.
A second one of the holes you see on the left of the right target. I figure I would go another 48 clicks and shoot from 80 yards.
Since 13 should be close to the poi at 80.
I got the hole on the top of the left target.
So down I go and right another 30 clicks. I thought for sure I would run out of adjustment to the right but I didn't. Now I was a little better.
Two more adjustment and I was close. By the way the hole in the top right target was the sabot at 13 yards.
After much messing around and adjusting the scope I shot just for groups and ended with this 3 shot group at 100 yards
I shot a whole container of Blackhorn just yesterday and today and my shoulder was starting to hurt quite a bit . The wind was 25 mph anyway so I figured that's good enough for now.
I was shooting 110 gr blackhorn, 250 gr shockwave with smooth black sabot and Winchester primers.
The session didn't start good and took a lot of scope adjustment but it ended alright at least and with some experimenting the Vision should be a good shooter. At least it grouped pretty good when all was said and done . I think it can be tightened up some with a little experimenting.
I mounted a scope and off I go. This range session was one of the most frustrating ever but it turned out ok.
The gun rest wouldn't work. I couldn't get a field of view no matter what. I had brought a front Caldwell bag along and so I went that route . Or I attempted to.
The rear bag wouldn't give me enough elevation . Luckily I had a squeeze bag that is for my long range shooting. It was a perfect fit. One little sqeeze and it was right on
.
So now I'm ready. I went to pop a couple primers before I load. Hmmm... the gun won't close with the primer. Ok then. I switch primers. Still won't close. Well I figure the breechplug needs tightened up some but I didn't bring a wrench. Figures. So back to the house I go. I should have known right away that this was not going to be easy.:s4:
I tightened the breechplug . Still wouldn't close. I took it all the way out and saw some Teflon tape that had gotten down toward the front of the plug. I cleaned it off and just greased the plug and cranked it down tight. That did it. It fired . So I head back.
Heres a couple targets I didn't want to post all of them for space reasons.
Basically, first shot was not on paper. I'm at 50 yards.
Ok then I walk up to 13 yards and fire and it was one of the holes on the left side of the right target.
Ok I moved it 48 clicks right.
Go back to 50 and shoot. Not on paper.
Ok back to 13 yards.
A second one of the holes you see on the left of the right target. I figure I would go another 48 clicks and shoot from 80 yards.
Since 13 should be close to the poi at 80.
I got the hole on the top of the left target.
So down I go and right another 30 clicks. I thought for sure I would run out of adjustment to the right but I didn't. Now I was a little better.
Two more adjustment and I was close. By the way the hole in the top right target was the sabot at 13 yards.
After much messing around and adjusting the scope I shot just for groups and ended with this 3 shot group at 100 yards
I shot a whole container of Blackhorn just yesterday and today and my shoulder was starting to hurt quite a bit . The wind was 25 mph anyway so I figured that's good enough for now.
I was shooting 110 gr blackhorn, 250 gr shockwave with smooth black sabot and Winchester primers.
The session didn't start good and took a lot of scope adjustment but it ended alright at least and with some experimenting the Vision should be a good shooter. At least it grouped pretty good when all was said and done . I think it can be tightened up some with a little experimenting.