Crud ring experiment results
08-30-2006, 12:46 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Crud ring experiment results
Well I made it out to the range yesterday and had some mixed results.
The good thing was, my son started out a little shaky but got better as the day went. By the time we had to leave he had shot a 4 shot group right at 1" at 50 yards using 90gr of Pyro P and a 250 SW. Should be a good enough load for cow elk. I plan on working on his shooting further out to 100 or so and hope he can get that kind of groups out there before the hunt. I think it's starting to click with him and his shooting skills.
Due to the fact that I was working with him most of the time I did not get as much chance to try out the new breach plug. I had shot maybe 10 rounds with the old BP to verify that no crud ring was going on in the gun. I then switched the plugs and tried 1 shot at 100gr of 777 and a 300gr SST. I swabbed after it and, no crud ring. I still want to do some more testing but I ran out of time yesterday. Will see what happens next outing.
I also didn't get to shoot my new GPR much but it looks like it's going to be a shooter. With a .015 patch it seems to like 85gr of P. Will try an .018 Patch next time and see if it likes that any better.
The good thing was, my son started out a little shaky but got better as the day went. By the time we had to leave he had shot a 4 shot group right at 1" at 50 yards using 90gr of Pyro P and a 250 SW. Should be a good enough load for cow elk. I plan on working on his shooting further out to 100 or so and hope he can get that kind of groups out there before the hunt. I think it's starting to click with him and his shooting skills.
Due to the fact that I was working with him most of the time I did not get as much chance to try out the new breach plug. I had shot maybe 10 rounds with the old BP to verify that no crud ring was going on in the gun. I then switched the plugs and tried 1 shot at 100gr of 777 and a 300gr SST. I swabbed after it and, no crud ring. I still want to do some more testing but I ran out of time yesterday. Will see what happens next outing.
I also didn't get to shoot my new GPR much but it looks like it's going to be a shooter. With a .015 patch it seems to like 85gr of P. Will try an .018 Patch next time and see if it likes that any better.
