Author Topic: Austin Halleck (Read 682 times)

skamaniac · « **on:** April 06, 2006, 02:48:45 AM »

Any A&H fans out there? What's your best load for target?

sabotloader · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2006, 03:56:37 AM »

skamaniac

I am shooting one, it is an older one from Missouri - but It really shoot great.

I do not know if this is the best targt load or not but I shoot a variety of .451/.452 - 300 grain bullets in an MMP HPH-24 sabot - pushed by 100 grain of T7-2f loose powder. Actually the gun I have will shoot just about anything well. For elk hunting I load a .458 (45-70) Nosler partition in an MMP .458 Orange sabot - that one will shoot really well. I am also shooting the new Speer 300 and 250 grain Gold Dots - they really might be the poor mans Nosler or Barnes bullet.

The other day just experimenting I bought a box of Hornady 10mm 200 grain XTP's and some MMP 40 cal blue sabots - set that on top of a 110 grains of T7-2f - they shoot GREAT - right at 2200 feet per second.

If you have one hope you have fun with it...

skamaniac · « **Reply #2 on:** April 06, 2006, 04:36:16 AM »

Thanks, the reason i was asking is a friend of mine was having trouble getting consistent groups. It used to shoot well using Remington bullet/sabots in 303 gr. But either they quick marketing them or they are just not available around our area so he tried using powerbelts and his rifle is apparantly allergic to them. I'll let him know your results. Thanks again.
Mike

sabotloader · « **Reply #3 on:** April 06, 2006, 05:10:25 AM »

Might have to really clean the barrel - he might have a build up of old sabot residue trapped behind the rings. Probably will have to get a good solvent and let it sit in the barrel for awhile. I usually use a combination of boiling water and solvent.

another thing that might cause the problem is if the crown of the barrel is dinged from the use of a ram rod over a long period of time.

+ look at the issue about the Omega Accuracy in this forum - it might even be that?

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Good luck