Shot some Fatter 30s

[Pystis]

I had some precious range time saturday.
Maybe the pics tell more than thousand words.
It s a shame that we need 2000 Joules (~1500 ft.lbs) of energy at the muzzle to shoot a deer. That means about 2200fps.
But at least in these velocities they seem to work very well.
All the boolits were only visually selected.



There are actually 5 holes on that paper. Maybe it´s just a coinsident that they hit like that.



Holes at 10 o'clock are .243 zeroing shots...



First of these shots hit the 9 rings for some unknown reason. Maybe a gascheck got loose during the flight.
I shot the next 4 in a same way and they hit where they should have.

[guninhand]

Rifle used and bore condition, wind conditions??

[9.3X62AL]

1500 ft. lbs. at muzzle seems like a bit much for deer. Nothing really wrong with those groups at that distance--I'd be pretty happy with that sort of work from a sporter or surplus military rifle.

[Pystis]

Guninhand, rifle I used was a mosin-nagant action with 20" LMG spare barrel. Bore condition is excellent, maybe mint when I purchased the barreled action. It slugged about .313". I can´t remember exact diameter.
I have a cheapo 1.5-6x scope on top of it. There was little to no wind at the moment.

Deputy Al, law says that bullet has to have 1700Joules (~1300lbs.ft) energy at 100 meters (109 yd.) with at least 8 gram (123 gr) projectile or 2000Joules (1500lbs.ft) with at least 6 grams (92.6gr).
That means I need around 2000fps muzzle velocity to meet the requirements.

[guninhand]

Psytis,

That is a very respectable group. I hope to get my fatter30 bullet results in the next 2 weeks, just have to come up with 6 hours to devote to it.

[catboat]

Nothing wrong with those groups, just have to tap the sights over a bit. Pays to experiment.