long overdue range report 29-6 w Leupold
Hi
I took her out a few times already and it is so much fun. I set the power to 4 or 6x and rested the gun on a bag shooting at 25 yards. I am still working on what is a comfortable shooting position. haven't quite figured i out. My favorite part is that seeing the POA is absolutely taken care off. If I don't hit where I aim, it is clearly now only about my trigger control. Great practice and harder than I thought. One thing is most important: The grip and finger position are critically important and I am trying to accomplish that by adding a Hogue grip sleeve over the Hogue rubber grip and some sticky repair tape. I am going to go a bit thicker on the top of the backstop to make more room for my trigger finger.
I tried some of my pet loads that work on other guns.
The gun has precise throats at 0.4290.
I have 0.4290 x-treme copper plated round WC 200 gr. ok in my loads but not great. Best with 8gr. HS-6
Vintage nosler JSP 0.429 240 gr ok, box is gone and I will stick with 200 to 210 grains going forward
vintage sierra JHP 0.4295 210 gr best so far
I tried a few pet loads which work on other guns:
5.7 gr W231 not good
5.1 BE is not good enough with the 240 gr noshers
H13.9 gr. 2400: quite alright but less good than HS-6
HS-6 8 gr: Great but a bit of unburnt powder
Hs-6 9 gr: Great, maybe a bit less unburnt powder but could not be as accurate as 8 gr.
I switched from cci 300 primers to WLP and in HS-6 find a bit less unburnt powder. My goal on that is to end up with absolutely no unburnt powder.
Will also try 8.5 gr HS-6 with both primers next and retry 9 grains with both primers and lead bullets. I think also increasing the crimp may help with unburnt powder. I may also try to go 8 gr and the 240 gr bullet as I think a heavier bullet pushing back against the HS-6 may give better burn.
I will order 500 hard cast Dardas 200 gr WC 0.430 diameter next and hoping that will be softer on the gun and increase accuracy a bit more.
I tried shooting at 100 yards also where I got a 6-8'' group and ~ 12'' drop with sierras and HS-6.
In short: This is the most fun gun I own. Great practice tool for trigger control and scratches the itch when I want to go rifle shooting w/o the need to bring so much equipment. The goal now is to get accuracy, are position, grips and load development to the point of making one hole at 25 yards and a small group at 100. I am continuing down the path with HS-6 for now. Any further ideas or comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading my lengthy report as there are still many questions to figure out.
Pictures:
Top: vintage Sierra 210 gr JHP 0.4295, 8 gr. HS-6, cci 300 primers, 25 yards.
bottom vintage Nosler 240 gr JHP 0.4295, 5.1 gr BE, cci 300 primers, 25 yards.
Last edited by oysterer; 05-14-2018 at 10:49 PM.
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