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Skip shooting is plausible. We didn't get a dirt shower with the shots that are pictured, but if he hit far enough in front of the berm we wouldn't have and it is hardpan/gravel a little farther out.
That makes more sense than anything I've been able to figure out!
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If I was the feller in question; I'd pay Mr. Waites to shoot 5 shots and see what the results looked like.
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pappy42 Wrote:If I was the feller in question; I'd pay Mr. Waites to shoot 5 shots and see what the results looked like.
Lol! I sight in or help people sight in rifles all the time, just to see their faces when they start hitting targets at 400 yards or more!!! No payment required! But a light weight 300 WinMag wouldn't be my first choice!! Ouch!!
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pappy42 Wrote:Yep, I've got one. Cooked up some hot 200 grain loads for African plains game and the bench sighting sessions were no fun. At my age and shooting style; the dang thing jumped out of my hands each shot.
Funny; the jumping out of hands thing didn't happen when shooting game.
That adrenalin is amazing stuff, isn't it!! LOL
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pappy42 Wrote:Yep, I've got one. Cooked up some hot 200 grain loads for African plains game and the bench sighting sessions were no fun. At my age and shooting style; the dang thing jumped out of my hands each shot.
Funny; the jumping out of hands thing didn't happen when shooting game.
Five word solution (if they were skipshots...): Caldwell Lead Sled & Muzzle break....
Al, just send me the bbl and I will thread and install the brake.
Gimme a call if you want...
I think they were tumbling. If tumbling, they don't always show the full profile, because like a spun knife, sometimes they almost hit the point and you don't get the profile.
When Charter Arms was making a five-shot 44 special revolver, the Bulldog, they had trouble with tumbling. Back when the American Rifleman was worth a damn the NRA tech staff tracked it to a barrel constriction at the frame connection point. Perhaps the throat was reamed improperly, or the bullets were undersize and didn't take the rifling. Sometime rifles just don't like a particular bullet, and maybe some version of this rifle's problem is the reason. I'd love to see the rifle and mike the bullets.
