270WSMANIC
36 Cal.
- Joined
- Dec 26, 2010
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I had repositioned the peep sight and so wanted to start at 25yd to sight in. There is a low spot in my range at 25 so I set the box at a paced off 31yds. The sightin group is just out of the pix to the right eccept for the right three holes. I used 250gr lee reals for sight in, I then shot a group with the reals and was getting fliers. Most of the lees loaded with a sharp rap on the short starter but some loaded much easier like it had not filled out completly when I cast it. I didn't check the 3 shot group till done so I don't know which shot was the flier. I then switched to PA conicals and shot a couple groups, poor accuracy.
All shooting today was 65gr 777 need to try a higher charge with the PA's another time. By now the right side of the box was so shot up I moved to the target dot in the pix. I first shot 3 reels 2 of which are the bottom 2 holes, I think I had marked the group befor shooting the prb's but I then shot away some of my marks. Next time I will bring more boxes for different bullets or loads to save confusing myself. The first shot was with over powder wad and .020 patch the white looking patch that tore up. I can assume its one of the flyers? I then shot 6 more times using a .015 patch with over power wad, as you see those patches held together and most went into a tight group right side of the bullseye. The 250 reals show great promise of shooting good But I may need to do better quality control when casting/sorting them. This same day I also shot 6 reals at 100yds. Will post that pix later and will have some questions for you bullet casters.