Voodoochile
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Today was a planed day for me, got up with the lil ones, had my coffee & breakfast, when Moma got up I cleaned up some leaves & trash, then went to the range around noon.
Ofcorse having no spot really to do any bench shooting was not in the plan but I was going to have fun anyway.
I shot a cupple of ball with the .010 patch off hand & when they hit kinda off my mark thought it could be me but then I decided to whip out the .015 patches.
Man did my shooting improve there cept for a flier which I can really say was my fault my 10 shot group was looking pretty good, found a patch or two & decided to try my luck at the 100 yard spot.
Well the I thought to hold a little high on my first shot at 100 yards & it paid me back by hitting high & slight right "the shot closest to the dent in the cardboard" but holding the sight as dead on as I can I think I did pretty good conciddering it was all off hand & with the one shot that I tried a .010 patch there it told me that they are not for this rifle.
Although you can't see it in the picture the 2 patches that I did manage to find are cut by what looks to be the rifling so tonight I swabbed the bore with some 0000 Steel wool about 20 times, also it looks good on the burn at least I think it does.
After 25 shots today I have a great feeling that this rifle will be a good friend, easy to shoot & swings nicely, I even made a guy with a T.C. Omega "brand new to him" slightly upset because at 100 yards "that is where he decided to sight it in instead of starting closer" he couldn't get it on paper & after the 6th shot he was having problems loading due to a crud ring from the 777 pelets & sabots he was using, where I swabbed my bore once every 5 shots & was keeping a some what consistent group.
Thoughts?
This will more than likely be my hunting rifle next year with as good as she shoots now, I can only imagine that by Muzzle Loading season November 2009 she'll be having all those shots tighter.
Ofcorse having no spot really to do any bench shooting was not in the plan but I was going to have fun anyway.
I shot a cupple of ball with the .010 patch off hand & when they hit kinda off my mark thought it could be me but then I decided to whip out the .015 patches.
Man did my shooting improve there cept for a flier which I can really say was my fault my 10 shot group was looking pretty good, found a patch or two & decided to try my luck at the 100 yard spot.
Well the I thought to hold a little high on my first shot at 100 yards & it paid me back by hitting high & slight right "the shot closest to the dent in the cardboard" but holding the sight as dead on as I can I think I did pretty good conciddering it was all off hand & with the one shot that I tried a .010 patch there it told me that they are not for this rifle.
Although you can't see it in the picture the 2 patches that I did manage to find are cut by what looks to be the rifling so tonight I swabbed the bore with some 0000 Steel wool about 20 times, also it looks good on the burn at least I think it does.
After 25 shots today I have a great feeling that this rifle will be a good friend, easy to shoot & swings nicely, I even made a guy with a T.C. Omega "brand new to him" slightly upset because at 100 yards "that is where he decided to sight it in instead of starting closer" he couldn't get it on paper & after the 6th shot he was having problems loading due to a crud ring from the 777 pelets & sabots he was using, where I swabbed my bore once every 5 shots & was keeping a some what consistent group.
Thoughts?
This will more than likely be my hunting rifle next year with as good as she shoots now, I can only imagine that by Muzzle Loading season November 2009 she'll be having all those shots tighter.
