How To Make A Rifle That Shoots In The Zeroes Into An 8 Incher!

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20 June 2019, 09:03

Saeed

How To Make A Rifle That Shoots In The Zeroes Into An 8 Incher!

I have a rifle built by Dwight Scott on a Hall Giant action.

I have several heavy, long barrels for it.

All chambered for our own wildcats.

Currently it has the 30/404 barrel, which is 30 inches long.

I have shot several groups with it which were hard to measure.

I found a box of the Speer 100 grain Plinker bullets, and thought I might try them and see what velocity I would get.

I started with 96 grains of Reloader 19.

Got 4022 fps, and a group that is about 8 inches!

20 June 2019, 13:54

Samuel_Hoggson

I can make any rifle an 8"-er.

No need to load poorly cast, plinkers, or fmj pulls.

Just let me shoot it.

20 June 2019, 18:18

Blacktailer

Still good enough for elephant!

Have gun- Will travel
The value of a trophy is computed directly in terms of personal investment in its acquisition. Robert Ruark

20 June 2019, 18:39

dpcd

You guys didn't see the part where, that was at 1200 yards!

20 June 2019, 19:30

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by Blacktailer:
Still good enough for elephant!

I don’t think I would shoot an elephant with a 100 grain Speer Plinker

20 June 2019, 20:10

bartsche

I've shot the Speer plinker in many 30 caliber rifles and never got near MOA

roger

Old age is a high price to pay for maturity!!! Some never pay and some pay and never reap the reward. Wisdom comes with age! Sometimes age comes alone..

21 June 2019, 04:24

Hipshoot

Best way to get sub 1 inch groups with a Speer Plinker is to shoot just one shot!

Hip

21 June 2019, 06:45

Fjold

Are the 100 grain plinkers getting to the target in one piece?

My 22.250 AI shooting the 36 grain Barnes VGs at 4500+ fps shoots 5 shot 5/8" groups at 100 yards. If I go up to 4,650 fps it opens the groups up to about 1.25".

Frank

"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

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23 June 2019, 07:27

Lamar

kind of would like to see what that plinker looks like coming out the barrel at 4-K.
I bet wad cutter best describes it though.