My new "toy" is scoped and sighted in!!!

[atomicjoe23]

I go to Poulsbo Sportsman's Club because a guy I used to work with is a range master there and the older gentlemen who run the trap shooting are REALLY cool about letting my GF shoot by herself while she learns to shoot the pigeons until she is confident enough to shoot with everyone else. . .

. . .she's getting there. . .we just haven't been able to go since the week before Christmas so she's gonna be a little rusty again.

[SpokaneSlayer]

I've shot there as well.  Maybe next time I'm home, we can get together to call some dogs or shoot some clays.

[12Gauge]

You should be able to tighten that up more.  Look at JoshT's 200 yard target,  I think it is the size of dime.

[JoshT]

You should be able to tighten that up more.  Look at JoshT's 200 yard target,  I think it is the size of dime.

It's the size of a quarter... and there's only one round in there. Honestly... that Vanguard shot just about as well as my custom HCR 25-06. I shot a group that looks just about like Joes... from the bench next to him... at 200 yards. Like I said earlier... the wind was pretty tricky... and there were snow flurries the entire time Joe and I were shooting. I'm certain that after another 100 rounds or so (and a trigger job)... you'll see that rifle shoot under 1" at 200 yards.

[atomicjoe23]

Gonna do what I can about putting some more rounds through it this weekend. . .I just bought 80 rounds of ammo and some more of those Shoot N See targets to do some testing on Saturday while I'm at the range. . .

. . .I can't find those Winchester USA 45 gr. JHP's anywhere around here. . .so I got a box each of 40 & 50 gr. Hornady V-Max, 40 & 50 gr. Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silver Tips, & 50 gr. Remington Premier AccuTip-V Boat Tails. . .hopefully it will like one of these loads as much as the 45 gr. JHP's. . .the only boxes of ammo that I didn't grab were the 55 gr. Federal PSP's & the 55 gr. Remington CoreLokt PSP's. . .I figured I'd stay away from the 55 grain bullets for now just because of the experience with the 55 grain Winchesters on Sunday. . .

. . .I'll post up my results on Sunday afternoon. . .

[atomicjoe23]

Just got back from the range and I can say that it was a good time. . .

It seems that my rifle just had a distaste for the Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silver Tips in 55 gr. because I took a gamble and went ahead and bought the same stuff in 40 & 50 gr.

. . the 40 gr. shot about 3" high @ 100 yards but was dead on left to right and the groups were nice and tight. . .

. . .the 50 gr. shot dead center @ 100 yards. . .

. . .the Remington Premier Accu-Tip V Boat Tails shot about an 1.5" high @ 100 yds, but dead on left to right. . .

. . .ar first I thought the 40 gr. Hornady V-Max's were gonna be a bust, but my target was getting cluttered and I couldn't keep track of where they were hitting. . .with a fresh target on they were also hitting about 1.5" high @ 100 yards, but centered left to right. . .I didn't have any of the 50 gr. V-Max's but I wish I did because I'm betting it would be the same as the Winchester Supremes and dead on @ 100 yards. . .

. . .I didn't have a chance to shoot the 200 yard range. . .I'm gonna buy some more ammow and hit the range up again on Friday if not sooner t0 try the 200 yard range. . .

. . .on the upside my GF shot the gun also it she was shooting groups as tight as I was and she has NEVER shot a centerfire rifle before and the she had NEVER shot a rimfire prior to about 2 weeks ago when she shot my 10/22. . .she didn't enjoy shooting paper as much as the clay pigeons but she still had fun. . .

I will post the measured groups up later. . .the target is a little cluttered so I won't post any pics of it, but I will post a pic of the life-size coyote target that I put the 3" Shoot N See circles on and I shot with the Hornady's and the 50 gr. Winchesters

[atomicjoe23]

Here are the results. . .first the initial round of seeing what did what. . .

     all @ 100 yards
40 gr. Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silver Tips-- 3 shots @ 1.625"
50 gr. Remington Premier AccuTip-V Boat Tails--3 shots @ 1.0"
50 gr. Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silver Tips--5 shots @ .875"
40 gr. Hornady V-Max--couldn't tell because the target was too confused by then. . .

. . .round two at the coyote target with only the two best performing rounds. . .
     once again all @ 100 yards. . .
50 gr. Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silver Tips--3 shots @ 1.5" & 3 shots @ .6875"
40 gr. Hornady V-Max--3 shots @ 1.0"

So at this point I'm sold on the 50 gr. Winchester Supreme Ballistic Silver Tips and I'm gonna try the 50 gr. Hornady V-Max next time I'm out and I will see how it works at 200 yards this time and I will zero the scope for whichever works best. . .

I wil post a pic of the targets tomorrow. . .