Spent the day at the range, shot the 22 Hornet Handi, 280 Improved Ultra, 444 Ultra and 45 Colt Carbine. Had the 100yd-200yd-300yd range to myself when I got there at 10:30, the RO is a friend from when I used to be a member and RO, he wanted to catch up, so I spent at least 2hours of my time shooting the breeze instead of guns!! It was a slow day, so he kept coming over to talk, real nice fella tho, I enjoyed it. There were only 2 other shooters on the range with me all day, and both left long before I did, so I got to shoot as much as I needed to.
Loaded the 30gr Calhoon bullets for the Hornet, see my other thread on them for the range report.
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,120095.0.htmlThe 280 Improved likes H1000 and the 140gr TSX, best was a nice clover leaf ½” right at 3000fps, this is on the slow side for the 280 Imp, but it’s very accurate and there’s no frame flex, so the H1000 is doing its job of holding down pressures which was my goal.
The 444 shoots the 355gr .432” Beartooth WLN DCG pretty darn good at 1950-2000fps using Reloder 7, groups were 1” with 43.5gr and 1¼” with 44gr. Shot 45gr at 200yds, got about a 5” group, but they drop a good 12-13” low!!
Shot 3 of the 265gr loads that I had left over from the last range trip, 45gr H4198 that shot 2200fps and about ~2” group at 100yds, shot them at 200yds with scope still set for the 355gr cast bullets, they hit 3” high and printed a 4½” group.
Also shot some 230gr Lyman 454490 gas checked bullets in the 45 Colt Carbine, it doesn’t much like them, got more of a pattern than groups, at least sized to .454” any way, lubed with Alox. Before I got all of the loads shot, my Bushnell Trophy 3-9x40 scope went belly up, shots quit hitting the paper, and I had lots of paper up to hit, six 8½x11 targets on the backer, no matter where I aimed, no holes. I had a bad feeling about it, when I started shooting first thing, it was hitting a foot low, the elevation turret ran out of adjustment after just a dozen clicks up, so it’s going back to Bushnell.
Tim
