Good evenin folks....
I elected to take a light weight rifle into the deer woods. I grabbed a Traditions Spring field Hawken outta the gun case and noted the bright yellow post it in the barrel that said LOADED. Would have had to have been loaded for about 4-5 years?
So I head to the forest and shot it (went off as if loaded that day) and it printed 6-8 inches low. Hmm, maybe the T7 or whatever did get old? So I loaded with my charge of 80 gr Blk MZ and shot 2 more and got a 2" group 6-8 inches low with the three shots.
The difference was, maybe?, that I was wearing new contact lenses vs glasses. Just wondering if others have noted a distinct difference in POI when switching glasses to contacts etc, or vise versa?. This one had primitive sites so after 20 shots and several swipes of the file my last three were touching with one clipping the left side of the 2 inch bull so I called it ready. Of course these were shot out the opened door of the Corolla too! That ones a keeper most likely.
I will take another old case queen out soon and shoot with glasses first then contacts and see what happens?
Deer hunt was a joke. 3 full days and saw three does n three fawns n 67K elk, 18 antelope and 2 coyotes. Last day sat water that was BEATEN with tracks and saw 34K crows and a hawk in 10 hrs. This was a trophy unit too
I elected to take a light weight rifle into the deer woods. I grabbed a Traditions Spring field Hawken outta the gun case and noted the bright yellow post it in the barrel that said LOADED. Would have had to have been loaded for about 4-5 years?
So I head to the forest and shot it (went off as if loaded that day) and it printed 6-8 inches low. Hmm, maybe the T7 or whatever did get old? So I loaded with my charge of 80 gr Blk MZ and shot 2 more and got a 2" group 6-8 inches low with the three shots.
The difference was, maybe?, that I was wearing new contact lenses vs glasses. Just wondering if others have noted a distinct difference in POI when switching glasses to contacts etc, or vise versa?. This one had primitive sites so after 20 shots and several swipes of the file my last three were touching with one clipping the left side of the 2 inch bull so I called it ready. Of course these were shot out the opened door of the Corolla too! That ones a keeper most likely.
I will take another old case queen out soon and shoot with glasses first then contacts and see what happens?
Deer hunt was a joke. 3 full days and saw three does n three fawns n 67K elk, 18 antelope and 2 coyotes. Last day sat water that was BEATEN with tracks and saw 34K crows and a hawk in 10 hrs. This was a trophy unit too