Hit the range today. Temp was 47 degrees and a swirling 8MPH wind.
To sight in I started off with the Remington yellow box stuff. At 25 yards I hit the bottom edge of the paper with the fist shot. Cranked it up a bit and was close enough to the bull. At 50 yards I shot two rounds that were about 2" high and 2" left. The first try at 100 yards showed a nice vertical string (3 rounds) streatched out over 4 inches.
Even with the scope and mounts this round was nailing the web of my hand pretty good. I was using a set of Gates shooting gloves that I picked up for $5 from Sierra Trading Post. I don't think these are really that good of a shooting glove. The seam of the glove falls right on the web of the hand - I think this is why I was starting to "feel the pain" there. I think they'd make good shotgun skeet or trap gloves though.
For the next six rounds I decided to ditch the gloves and try my handloads. There was no noticable difference in recoil between the two rounds but the palm of my hand felt much better w/o the gloves. Both 3-shot groups were right at about 2 inches. Not too bad for the first time out. I feel confident that the barrel will probably get better down the road and some handload experimentation is definately in the works.
Recoil was pretty stout. A little more potent than my Ruger SRH with hot factory or hot handloads. I've never tried the rubber grips so I can't comment on the difference between them and the laminated ones. I will say that about 25 rounds at a sitting is all I care to send down range from this set-up. But, I DO LOVE THIS THING!!!
As far as not having the grip cap . . . I'm going to get one from T/C soon. I don't think it looks bad w/o it, just want to protect the bottom of the grip.
Ranger413
