Boz330
06-11-2018, 09:57 AM
To say that this 40-50 has been an experience is an understatement. I have run into problems that I never even thought about when I ordered this rifle. Anyway after the last round of education I got some real promising results at 300yd. I took the best combination and loaded it for the match yesterday that was a tune up for our local mid-range championship match next month.
I was really happy with the results at 300yd and 600yd. The scores could have absolutely been better but after the preceding pitfalls this was very encouraging as opposed to frustrating. One of the top US LRML shooters was sitting behind me on the line and offered some observations that he saw that might help. He said that when I had a bad shot he noticed that the muzzle of my gun jumped off of the sticks noticeably but when it was a good shot they stayed right there. I haven't been really trying to get the exact same spot on the sticks since on my other guns it never really made much difference. The difference might be the barrel since I got the lightest barrel available from Shiloh. I wanted this rifle for hunting, Silhouette, and mid-range and my other guns have heavier barrels since they were target only.
We tapped on the barrel to locate the null point and it seems to be about 8 inches back from the muzzle which in all of the barrels that I have done this with, regardless of length that seems to be the distance. Anyway that is the next experiment to try. Upgrading a few of those lower numbers will go a long way toward making some outstanding scores, for me anyway. I do this for fun and good scores are a lot more fun than beating my head against a wall.
Bob
I was really happy with the results at 300yd and 600yd. The scores could have absolutely been better but after the preceding pitfalls this was very encouraging as opposed to frustrating. One of the top US LRML shooters was sitting behind me on the line and offered some observations that he saw that might help. He said that when I had a bad shot he noticed that the muzzle of my gun jumped off of the sticks noticeably but when it was a good shot they stayed right there. I haven't been really trying to get the exact same spot on the sticks since on my other guns it never really made much difference. The difference might be the barrel since I got the lightest barrel available from Shiloh. I wanted this rifle for hunting, Silhouette, and mid-range and my other guns have heavier barrels since they were target only.
We tapped on the barrel to locate the null point and it seems to be about 8 inches back from the muzzle which in all of the barrels that I have done this with, regardless of length that seems to be the distance. Anyway that is the next experiment to try. Upgrading a few of those lower numbers will go a long way toward making some outstanding scores, for me anyway. I do this for fun and good scores are a lot more fun than beating my head against a wall.
Bob