2nd annual swaged bullet postal shoot! Everyone welocme!

[Fetzner808]

Ah wish I had seen this earlier too!! Hopefully I'll be getting some swage dies from BT soon, but I would have loved to requested some .500 cal projectiles for my .50 Beowulf for this little contest.

[nhrifle]

Finally got a chance to get out and shoot a few rounds. This was the first time I had sent any of these bullets down range and I am pleased! I had to set up on a seldom traveled dirt road a few miles from my house as I can't get to my usual shooting spot due to the snow.



I shot these out of my DPMS AR15 that I use for service rifle matches. It's basically stock except I added a competition legal free float tube and a two-stage trigger.

[Sitzme]

Count me in.

I will be submitting a target. Someone has to make the rest of you look good!

[BT Sniper]

TWO WEEKENDS LEFT TILL DEAD LINE!

Sitzme your in!

Good shooting and swage on!

Brian

[BT Sniper]

Nice shooting NH!

BT

[plus1hdcp]

Target shot today and ready to send in to BT tomorrow. It was a lot of fun and sadly, my results wont scare anyone. Oh well. I didn't handle a crosswind as well as I would like and I need to work on my load development. This is part of the fun of shooting. Anyway, on one target I had 1 (8), 2 (7) and 2 (6) rings for a 35 pt total and a 1.669 spread. The second round gave me 1 (X) and 4 (8) rings for a total of 42 and a 1.830 spread.

This is a great way for me to have a baseline on which to improve my shooting. This was shot with a Savage Model 11, Pentax 4.5x14 glass, 55gr swaged bullets, BT dies, CCI primers, and 24.0 gr WC 844 powder.

Good luck to all shooters and thank you to BT and the rest of the sponsors for this postal shoot.

[BT Sniper]

Good to see you guys are out shooting. One more weekend!

Stay posted for all the details!

BT

[Djones]

You guys are much better shots than I am! I need to get to the range more and get some more practice!

I did have a lot of fun shooting though. I was hoping to make it to the range twice so far this year but I only made it once. Here is my pattern.

[Scootshop]

Back to the drawing board.
But it's a entry.

[plus1hdcp]

Nice target NH. It's fun to make your own isn't it?

[BT Sniper]

Looking good guys!

D, glad you had fun. That is what it is all about. You certainly have a good target to improve upon for next years shoot.

Scoot, target on left certainly looks like it had some potential. Those darn fliers!

keep at it guys. Only a few more days till deadline.

Brian

[SquirrelHollow]

Come hell or high water, I'll be shooting this weekend. One way or another, I'll have a target in the mail with a March 31st post mark.

Put me down as entrant #13.

[nhrifle]

Nice target NH. It's fun to make your own isn't it?

Thank you, I was a little more than surprised with how well those shot for me. Credit definitely goes to BT as I couldn't have made the bullets without his dies. And yes I am having a blast making my own, it's more fun that I could have hoped for.

[SquirrelHollow]

I lost my ammo!
I went to pack everything up for this weekend, and..... All of the ammo I had loaded with BT Sniper's 6mm bullets, for last year's shoot (and general testing) is missing.
I don't know how. I don't know when. All I know is that I packed it in one of my ammo cans when I moved to the house we just bought, and now it's MIA. I have the ammo can - just not any of the 6mm ammo that was in it.

So, I'll have to hope and prey that the load I shot 0.75" with last year in the wind works well enough to get the job done with the 25 or so bullets I have left.
The only reference I have to that load is "39.0 gr IMR 4064 ... about 0.020 off the lands" in a previous post. I can make some assumptions about other components, since the wildcat only uses two particular lots of R-P brass, has a dedicated lot of Winchester LR primers, and has a dedicated lot of IMR 4064; but the rest will be educated guesstimates.

I think it'll work out..... maybe.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

keep at it guys. Only a few more days till deadline.
Brian

My Target is in the mail.
I got out today...Partly cloudy, 38º, and a light breeze. Oh, I when I wrote the date on the target, I was sure today was the 27th

[SquirrelHollow]

Well, it's a target.
The rifle can do better.
The bullets can do better.
The load can probably do better.
The problem was definitely the shooter.
...But I'm still going to blame the wind.

The target is on its way (minus orange stickers). I dropped it at the post office at about 5 pm on Saturday, so it should have been on the 8 o'clock truck to Boise.


It isn't obvious in the photo, but in person you can see that the right hand target has a double-tap on the X ring. The oblong-looking hole on the right is just an illusion caused by shadows when I took the picture.

[anotherred]

Mine will in the mail tomorrow.

[MOcaster]

I got my target in the mail this morning! I won't win either of the scoring portions but maybe one of the drawings.

[Lizard333]

Target is in the mail. No point in turning in something sooner than required. Tried getting another shot Sunday but forty mile an hour winds with 60 + mph gusts made it unacceptable for keeping a stand up let alone sending rounds down range.

Oh well, two groups at less than .7 inches a piece, not bad. There's always next year.

[BT Sniper]

I received a lot of targets today. I'll be scoring them and posting results as soon as I can. Probably be well into next week to allow time for all entries to arrive and give me the time I need.

Stay posted for results.

Brian