Wv_mingo327
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took my mnt rifle out today for the first time with this one had her for around a year and between work and life never could get her out but anyway started off with .490 ball , 0.015 pre lubed patches and 50grns i was able to hit the paper at 25 yards but was wondering moved up to 60grns a little better but she was still wondering shot a total of around 11-14 shots with both loads having to clean about every 4th shoot or was hard to load even with my range rod switched over to some hand cut ticking that’s 0.018” thick lubed with @Stumpkiller moose snot which i made up about a week ago started with 50grns the 0.018 patch and .490 ball same 25 yards boy oh boy did the ol girl tighten her groups up then but i still felt like she could do better so i upped it to 60grns and same patch ball combo with moose snot i couldn’t be happier she shot how iv alwasy wanted to shoot while learning over the last year and a half man can she group might i add that the moose snot is leaps and bounds above any other lube iv tried and iv tried a few in several other rifles of mine even my other mnt rifles i shot a total of 17 shoots using the ticking and moose snot and wiped the barrel out one time after 8 shots not because it was getting hard to load either might i add but that’s when i switched from 50grn up to 60grns. the picture below is of a target i moved out to 67 yards measured with my range finder , the very first shot was the lowest shot on the paper, raised my year sight a turn and maybe a quarter with the set screw then shot again which is the shoot to the right made a very miner adjustment to the left with the rear sight loaded her back up and shot 3 more times there the ones that are all on big ol hole almost dead in the bullseye but still just a tad to the right ( she had been shooting to the right at the 25yards but was grouping really good for me with the ticking and moose snot combo ) if i get time i may try to tweak her to shoot just a little more to the left but i don’t know if i’ll do it or not i’m supper pleased with how she done at that distance.
took my mnt rifle out today for the first time with this one had her for around a year and between work and life never could get her out but anyway started off with .490 ball , 0.015 pre lubed patches and 50grns i was able to hit the paper at 25 yards but was wondering moved up to 60grns a little better but she was still wondering shot a total of around 11-14 shots with both loads having to clean about every 4th shoot or was hard to load even with my range rod switched over to some hand cut ticking that’s 0.018” thick lubed with @Stumpkiller moose snot which i made up about a week ago started with 50grns the 0.018 patch and .490 ball same 25 yards boy oh boy did the ol girl tighten her groups up then but i still felt like she could do better so i upped it to 60grns and same patch ball combo with moose snot i couldn’t be happier she shot how iv alwasy wanted to shoot while learning over the last year and a half man can she group might i add that the moose snot is leaps and bounds above any other lube iv tried and iv tried a few in several other rifles of mine even my other mnt rifles i shot a total of 17 shoots using the ticking and moose snot and wiped the barrel out one time after 8 shots not because it was getting hard to load either might i add but that’s when i switched from 50grn up to 60grns. the picture below is of a target i moved out to 67 yards measured with my range finder , the very first shot was the lowest shot on the paper, raised my year sight a turn and maybe a quarter with the set screw then shot again which is the shoot to the right made a very miner adjustment to the left with the rear sight loaded her back up and shot 3 more times there the ones that are all on big ol hole almost dead in the bullseye but still just a tad to the right ( she had been shooting to the right at the 25yards but was grouping really good for me with the ticking and moose snot combo ) if i get time i may try to tweak her to shoot just a little more to the left but i don’t know if i’ll do it or not i’m supper pleased with how she done at that distance.
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