P95Carry
Moderator Emeritus
After two days of evil weather ... today was great and Caseydog came over as we'd arranged - and we got to range about 12.30 and proceeded to spend a glorious 6 hours shooting, all sorts.
Chrono stuff was first - get the important stuff out the way. Three rounds of his 22-250 load showed an excellent and minute spread - plus good grouping. Next, check out my M77 in .223 for sighting .. no probs there. Both my Contender and his Encore - both .223 ... then had check-outs and successful sighting tweaks for 100 yds ... both running WWB 55 grain loads. Damn .. I love Contender shooting.
Chrono'd that ammo thru Ruger 77 (22" barrel) and the Contender (14" barrel) .... interesting comparison figures. Rifle averaged 3370 fps ... Contender averaged 2831.... that equates to an arbitrary 54 fps per barrel inch on velocity difference. Of course... that load in Contender probably never making a full and efficient ''burn''.
Also tried a new BFR load in 45-70 .. useful figures and will post that data in reloading in case of use to people using that cal.
Just added a Leupold to FAL after a poor red dot gave probs on Saturday shoot .... got that on the paper and finished up with quite adequate group at 100 yds ..... very satidfying.
Tried Beretta Storm with a crap red dot .. gun shoots fine re its cycling but - red dot proved it was crap! (Chink dross!!) .. will fit another and hopefully better one.
.454 Casull SRH was checked over for sighting ... in fact the Hornady 300 grain XTP load does not seem to group too tight - but sure as heck is a satisfyingly potent load!!! 1800 or so ft lbs in that fella!
Once .454 was set up ... it was used to put a redundent hard drive out of its misery ....... just at 50 yds. One shot each and we had a good ''kill''
......... see pic ...... 
...... oh, had to add orange sticker cos the gray of drive got lost on background of gray slate stuff.
Well .... that took care of Mr Seagate .. and we turned attention to Mr Western Digital .... this was at 100 yds and five shots each thru Contender and Encore respectively. The humble (or not so humble! ) .223's did good work and this one too was satisfactorily, ''put out of its misery'' LOL ...
To finish off we shot some double action .357 and .44 mag against each other .... at 25 yds made quite a few misses on letter paper so - maybe we should have closed in to say 15 yds .. 25 stretches it a bit with hot loads and D/A. Oh and some 22/45 red dot plinking.
Finally - the ''usual'' finisher .... Marlin 60 and a few mags full ... knocking almost one single larger hole outa the target. You gotta grin when the .22's start flyin!!
So - hardly earth shattering stuff but hey - most all you guys know how much fun a range session can produce and .. this was no exception!! That's why I am writing it up - even if a tad boring! So - there ya go!
Chrono stuff was first - get the important stuff out the way. Three rounds of his 22-250 load showed an excellent and minute spread - plus good grouping. Next, check out my M77 in .223 for sighting .. no probs there. Both my Contender and his Encore - both .223 ... then had check-outs and successful sighting tweaks for 100 yds ... both running WWB 55 grain loads. Damn .. I love Contender shooting.
Chrono'd that ammo thru Ruger 77 (22" barrel) and the Contender (14" barrel) .... interesting comparison figures. Rifle averaged 3370 fps ... Contender averaged 2831.... that equates to an arbitrary 54 fps per barrel inch on velocity difference. Of course... that load in Contender probably never making a full and efficient ''burn''.
Also tried a new BFR load in 45-70 .. useful figures and will post that data in reloading in case of use to people using that cal.
Just added a Leupold to FAL after a poor red dot gave probs on Saturday shoot .... got that on the paper and finished up with quite adequate group at 100 yds ..... very satidfying.
Tried Beretta Storm with a crap red dot .. gun shoots fine re its cycling but - red dot proved it was crap! (Chink dross!!) .. will fit another and hopefully better one.
.454 Casull SRH was checked over for sighting ... in fact the Hornady 300 grain XTP load does not seem to group too tight - but sure as heck is a satisfyingly potent load!!! 1800 or so ft lbs in that fella!
Once .454 was set up ... it was used to put a redundent hard drive out of its misery ....... just at 50 yds. One shot each and we had a good ''kill''
......... see pic ...... ...... oh, had to add orange sticker cos the gray of drive got lost on background of gray slate stuff.
Well .... that took care of Mr Seagate .. and we turned attention to Mr Western Digital .... this was at 100 yds and five shots each thru Contender and Encore respectively. The humble (or not so humble!
) .223's did good work and this one too was satisfactorily, ''put out of its misery'' LOL ...
To finish off we shot some double action .357 and .44 mag against each other .... at 25 yds made quite a few misses on letter paper so - maybe we should have closed in to say 15 yds .. 25 stretches it a bit with hot loads and D/A. Oh and some 22/45 red dot plinking.
Finally - the ''usual'' finisher .... Marlin 60 and a few mags full ... knocking almost one single larger hole outa the target.
You gotta grin when the .22's start flyin!!So - hardly earth shattering stuff but hey - most all you guys know how much fun a range session can produce and .. this was no exception!! That's why I am writing it up - even if a tad boring! So - there ya go!
