Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Well, that was embarrassing

I shot about 40 rounds off of my elbow on a bench at 100 yards last Saturday. The best group I managed was about three inches. On the other hand, I did learn some useful things.

1. My gun seems to like hotter loads. The ones with 60 grains of 4350 behind a 160 grain bullet shot better than the ones with 54 grains behind the same bullet.

2. There wasn't an appreciable difference in recoil between the slower and hotter loads.

3. That being what it is, the gun still kicks more than enough to make me have some flinching issues.

Going forward, I plan to load some lighter rounds that I can shoot more comfortably in order to see if I can get my flinching under control.

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