Cast boolits at 100 yards

[armoredman]

I got back out with the CZ 527 today, and was happy to see the Bushnell scope had easily kept it's zero. I had only gotten dialed in at 50 yards, so today it the 100 yard turn. That went well enough, and then it was time to try out some of my new cast boolits, (spelling courtesy of castboolits.gunloads.com, great resource for pouring your own!), at 100 yards. Results were interesting....

First, the light 16.0 grains of Accurate #1680 load...and I didn't realize how light it was until I discovered how far the slug dropped! The second group I held over approximately 6 inches, using the multi-X recticle on the Bushnell scope. Nice feature, that. it was also interesting to hear the boom...and the the slap of the boolit hitting the paper.



This was a decent sighting in group at 100. BTW, the taped over group next to it is from the 123gr FMJ I was sighting the scope in with.



Shoot 5 for a REAL group.



I tried an 18.0 grain load, more oopmh, but still had to hold 3 inches over.



Cleanup was once again a cinch, no leading, the air dropped wheel weight boolits and the 30 caliber gas checks did thier jobs well.

This is an ongoing experiment, of course, but I think I can say the cast gas checked boolits will definately do the job, when I find the right powder charge.

[Stones]

Noticed from your previous posts that you have a better scope mounted now. It would be interesting to see how it (the grouping) would fair if you threw a couple of factory loads down range w/ the better scope. I'm almost certain your 200yd groups would equal or surpass previous 100yd groups.

I've heard the saying; "Optics is everything. A cheap rifle w/ good optics is better than a good rifle w/ cheap optics". I've actually seen this when we switched my Leupold VX-II in place of a Simmons. Unfortunately I can't recall the make/model of the rifle, I just recall him cussing about how much he spent and it could hit the broadside of a barn!

We've got a CMP service rifle comp coming up late June. Unfortunately, at 200, 300, & 600 yards, photos will most undoubtedly not show grouping (even if I can keep them together).

Good luck. Your groups are coming together. I'm sure we'll be seeing more reports.

[dusty10]

well, if that target was a critter, it would be dead with any of those groups.  nice shootin' boss.