Buckshot
08-07-2008, 03:01 AM
..............Our club puts on a monthly "Buffalo Match", which I've mentioned before. Jon K called me Monday and wanted to know if I was going to shoot the upcoming match, this coming Sunday? I said yes and he wanted to know what I was going to shoot. All I had were 30+ swaged PP'd slugs for the Rigby ML'er so I said I'd probably be shooting it again.
Jon K said he had worked up a really good BP load for his Marlin M95 in 45-70. I was the Lyman 330gr HP Gould slug lubed with Lars, over 60 grs of 1-1/2Fg + 2x 0.60" wads. This has the Gould sitting just right to crimp into it's crimp groove. I have a Pedersoli Sharps Business rifle in 45-70 and he said if I was going to be there tomorrow (Tuesday) I could try the loads in it, as he said he had about 20 left over. His Marlin leveraction was printing 3" at 200 meters with them.
So the next day I showed up with the Sharps and Jon K set the ammo down. Looking at it I figured the slug looked like it was seated a bit short for the Sharps, but what the heck, eh? Jon asked to see the sights and asked what it was sighted for. I said a centerhit on the rifle bull with a 6 o'clock hold at 50 yards. About 4.5" above POA. Jon said to raise it 5 lines (who knows what the lines mean, it's a Pedersoli sight).
There was a full sized ram set up at 200 meters. I had an apurture in place up front so just encircled the ram in it. With the trigger set, a bit of pressure on the front one sent the slug off with a nice boom and a cloud of smoke. Jon was watching with his spotting scope and said it went just under his belly and over the rail, so come up 2 more "Lines" :-P
Next 2 shots were hits with good elevation but a bit right. BTW, I wipped between shots. One patch 'Just Damp' with Birchwood Casey #77, and then one dry patch had the bore shinning. Pretty good coaching. A Guestimation on the sight and the 2nd shot hit.
So then he says to take the half size swinger out there at 200 meters. First shot was just off his rump. Would have been a good hit on the larger one. So he says crank in one mark left windage. Next 2 shots were hits on the half sized animal. [smilie=w:
Watch me screw this up Sunday :groner:
.................Buckshot
Jon K said he had worked up a really good BP load for his Marlin M95 in 45-70. I was the Lyman 330gr HP Gould slug lubed with Lars, over 60 grs of 1-1/2Fg + 2x 0.60" wads. This has the Gould sitting just right to crimp into it's crimp groove. I have a Pedersoli Sharps Business rifle in 45-70 and he said if I was going to be there tomorrow (Tuesday) I could try the loads in it, as he said he had about 20 left over. His Marlin leveraction was printing 3" at 200 meters with them.
So the next day I showed up with the Sharps and Jon K set the ammo down. Looking at it I figured the slug looked like it was seated a bit short for the Sharps, but what the heck, eh? Jon asked to see the sights and asked what it was sighted for. I said a centerhit on the rifle bull with a 6 o'clock hold at 50 yards. About 4.5" above POA. Jon said to raise it 5 lines (who knows what the lines mean, it's a Pedersoli sight).
There was a full sized ram set up at 200 meters. I had an apurture in place up front so just encircled the ram in it. With the trigger set, a bit of pressure on the front one sent the slug off with a nice boom and a cloud of smoke. Jon was watching with his spotting scope and said it went just under his belly and over the rail, so come up 2 more "Lines" :-P
Next 2 shots were hits with good elevation but a bit right. BTW, I wipped between shots. One patch 'Just Damp' with Birchwood Casey #77, and then one dry patch had the bore shinning. Pretty good coaching. A Guestimation on the sight and the 2nd shot hit.
So then he says to take the half size swinger out there at 200 meters. First shot was just off his rump. Would have been a good hit on the larger one. So he says crank in one mark left windage. Next 2 shots were hits on the half sized animal. [smilie=w:
Watch me screw this up Sunday :groner:
.................Buckshot