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Yesterday I was at my local range, mainly doing some 50 yard target with a couple of my .22LR rifles (Savage MkII-G+Bushnell Trophy 3-9X 40mm, Ruger 10/22+Bushnell Sportview 4-12X 40mm), I happened to have my NMBH .45 in my range bag, so I decided to see if I could hit my paper target at 50 yards.
The NMBH is sighted in for around 20 yards or so, so I aimed for the very top of my target paper, and fired off a cylinder, all I was looking to do at this range was to get them on the paper
Amazingly, out of six shots, from a two-hand crush grip, four were on the paper, admittedly, they weren't exactly *close* (about 4-5" groups), but I was shooting with the factory irons, and wasn't expecting them to be even that close
With a little more tweaking, I'm sure I could shrink the groups to something tolerable, and that may in fact be my next project, get the NMBH sighted in for 50 yards, if I can shrink groups to 1" or under, this gun would have definite potential as a hunting gun, and seeing as up here in Maine, the furthest shot I could see myself taking when hunting would be no more than 150 yards max, 50 to 100 would be the range I'd feel safe at
The NMBH is a '81/'82 vintage gun with the 7.5" barrel, I'm shooting my reloads, 7.1Gn of Trailboss under a LSWC 200Gn bullet, I'm sure the gun is capable of grouping quite well at 50 once it's sighted in, at this point, the limiting factor here is *me*...
The NMBH is sighted in for around 20 yards or so, so I aimed for the very top of my target paper, and fired off a cylinder, all I was looking to do at this range was to get them on the paper
Amazingly, out of six shots, from a two-hand crush grip, four were on the paper, admittedly, they weren't exactly *close* (about 4-5" groups), but I was shooting with the factory irons, and wasn't expecting them to be even that close
With a little more tweaking, I'm sure I could shrink the groups to something tolerable, and that may in fact be my next project, get the NMBH sighted in for 50 yards, if I can shrink groups to 1" or under, this gun would have definite potential as a hunting gun, and seeing as up here in Maine, the furthest shot I could see myself taking when hunting would be no more than 150 yards max, 50 to 100 would be the range I'd feel safe at
The NMBH is a '81/'82 vintage gun with the 7.5" barrel, I'm shooting my reloads, 7.1Gn of Trailboss under a LSWC 200Gn bullet, I'm sure the gun is capable of grouping quite well at 50 once it's sighted in, at this point, the limiting factor here is *me*...
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