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Offline sureshot2040

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223 bull handi
« on: March 24, 2007, 04:22:13 PM »
hey pards
i just got back from the range at my cousins house
we have access to 700 yards there
we have a 4ft x 5ft steel plate set at 462 yards downrange
he was using an 800 dollar encore pro hunter in 223 with a 28 ( i believe ) inch barrel
and a 350 dollar burris scope on it
he shot a 2 1/2 inch group that hit abt three inches below his aiming point
i laid my 200 dollar 223 with a 79 dollar scope ( cant remember the name of it now ) that i got at academy sports
and after i asked him where he aimed i copied him and shot a three shot group INSIDE his group!!!
also he was using carefully handloaded ammo saying that it was the load his gun seemed to shoot the best with
i was using remington 55 grain fmc loads from wally world
i couldnt believe it myself i was shocked
now im not knocking the encore but dang it made me feel great seeing that little handi shoot right with a setup costing abt five times as much
all in all a good day at the range
sureshot
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Offline quickdtoo

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Re: 223 bull handi
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2007, 04:35:01 PM »
That's the kind of shooting story that's priceless!! Good shooting, sureshot!! ;)

Tim
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Re: 223 bull handi
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2007, 05:40:11 PM »
My father-in-law and his Browning 7 Mag always quits shooting whenever I get my Stevens 200 or my Handi out.  It insults him I think.  Quality rifles are great, but it mystifies me how much people can rationalize how they spent $800 on a "Medallion A-Bolt whatever".  His rifle shot ONE "dime sized" group 10 YEARS AGO and that makes it a tackdriver.  I love the man, but he doesn't have a "rifle that shoots 1/4" groups".  He has a "rifle that shot one 1/4 group". 

sorry, got a little sidetracked there.

Great shooting.  Gotta love the 223 Handi.
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Re: 223 bull handi
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2007, 06:36:22 PM »
sureshot2040, i have remingtons, brownings,winchesters, all the pretty boys over at the local gun sporting goods store just laugh at the nef rifles, i killed 6 legal deer this season with nef rifles, 30-06 and 500 S&W,
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Re: 223 bull handi
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2007, 12:29:27 AM »
RO,
      How did your .500 do on the deer? I'm curious of how the bullet looked when recovered, or did it pass through? Was it a handload or factory offering? I'm interested in the round, but can't seem to buy anything other than .35 Whelens and .45-70s.
Don
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