Nice. You where so excited you forgot to put it on the gun. I have never owned a rifled barrel. I like the looks of them sights. Its always been a bead and smooth bore for me. Humm off to gb I go. Thanks for sharing
You will love Hastings. they are great.
Congratulations my friend for making a good decision of getting a rifled barrel. The fun starts now cooking newer loads,
Best regards,
Ajay Madan
Super Blazing Sabots
Yeah, I should probably break down and buy one as well. We'll see in a while how toy money is doing.
What do you plan on running through that one... bore size or wad slugs? Or both? Whatever works best is the probably answer there I guess. I know that's what I'd do.
Longbow
Autoloader huh? Heh heh heh.
"My main ambition in life is to be on the devil's most wanted list."
Leonard Ravenhill
Get those sabot slugs worked out, I have two Marlin 512 Slug Masters to feed! Congrats
1.3 oz heat treated FB HB slug over 40g of Blue Dot shot from a light autoloader without a recoil pad will leave a mark! Promising first range day, offhand 50 yard 4" group, with open sights. Probably not going to shoot groups from the bench, too much recoil, plus I ain't gonna take the bench hunting with me. Headed back to the range next week, will get pics.
NY57,
I've got a good load for the 512 but it is with a FB solid base 1.6 oz slug over 65g of SR 4759. I probably will not get to test the sabots in the 512 till summertime.
BB
Greetings Brother Bikerbeans, you sure will notice when you fire the 512 with a FB solid base 1.6 oz slug over 65g of SR 4759.
**--** If I remember correctly we stopped around 60 gr and that too with 470 gr slug in sabot, was plenty fast.
Best regards,
Ajay Madan
Super Blazing Sabots
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Ever hear of China Lake California? No ocean around there either.
Training facility to teach sailors how to operate surface ship and submarine nuclear power plants. Navy figured if you removed sinking as an outcome of the training it would be safer. I was an instructor at the facility, none of my students worked at 3 Mile Island or Chernobol.
BB
Hello Bikerbeans did you get to chrono that load at 65 gr charge?
Best regards,
Ajay
Ajay,
I have in the past, but don't trust my memory, but I remember 1,300 fps range.
BB
Hastings has great barrels. I put then on older 1100’s so I can run a short barrel with chokes.
No pics again, left the targets stapled to the OSB target stand. With my beretta and hastings barrel with open sights I put 3 slugs into a 5" at 100 yards. I was seated at the bench but had to improvise a rest, as the beretta wouldn't fit the rifle rest I brought. I used a splat target and needed a scope to see the bullet holes, which tells alot about my eye sight. At 50 yards I can shoot the same size group standing offhand so I think this shotgun is ready to hunt.
The load is a 1 5/16 oz turbo HB FB heat treated slug, 40g Blue Dot, 12s3 wad w/o petals, (1) 3/16" nitro card in a 2 3/4 win estate hull with a roll crimp. I compress the load with approx 50 lbs of force immediately before roll crimping.
BB
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |