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09 December 2007, 05:18

First Shot

It will sure put a smile on your face when......

....you pull off a group like this. Love my 7mm-08!!!! Groups usually average around the 3/4" mark, but occasionally I get a one holer like this one. I measured it wrong to start with. The 0.560 is outside edge to outside edge. Forgot to subtract the bullet diameter of .284. Actual group size is 0.267".

Dark lines are 1/2"..lighter lines are 1/4"

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09 December 2007, 05:30

Doc

Gotta love that! Way to go.

09 December 2007, 07:00

Fjold

Always fun when it all works!
Doing load development on my 6.5x284 it kept doing stuff like this:

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

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

09 December 2007, 08:26

bartsche

From a 7600!!! That is spec-- taaacularrr and really good to boot.

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..

09 December 2007, 18:32

MickinColo

Nice shooting First Shot.

09 December 2007, 18:43

D Humbarger

That can"t be! In a sloppy pump gun with plain old run of the mill Speer Hot Cores no less! This can only happen in a dream. We all know that you must use a high grade custom bolt gun using costly premium grade bullets to achieve these results.... Huh?

Love it!

Doug Humbarger
NRA Life member
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73.
Yankee Station

Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo.

09 December 2007, 21:09

First Shot

Thanks to all. Yea...I'm really liking this sloppy old pump gun and the Speer Hot Cores have performed great on game in my REM Mtn LSS 7mm-08 so thought I'd try them out in the pump.

Doug...you are absolutely right! You know....I used to catch some pretty nice bass out of my 10Ft flatbottom boat too! Seems the bass didn't know I wasn't sitting in a $20,000 dollar bass boat.

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09 December 2007, 21:16

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Fjold

Thats a sweet 5 shot group. In my book, that's what makes reloading so much fun. I don't care what kind of rifle / calliber you got....90+ % of the time there is a bullet, powder, brass, powder, charge, etc. etc. combination out there that can make it shoot. You just got to find it!

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09 December 2007, 23:02

stillbeeman

The only bad thing about shooting a group like that is you want to shoot another one.

Good job.

10 December 2007, 02:41

Hot Core

Hey First Shot, Great shooting! Looks like you are ready for some Deer, Hogs and Bear.

Good Hunting and clean 1-shot Kills.

11 December 2007, 03:54

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stillbeeman
You're right about that. Thing is, now that I KNOW that the gun can shoot cloverleafs....any group bigger than that is MY fault! LOL

Hot Core
Going out this weekend for deer or hogs....which ever shows up first!

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11 December 2007, 04:19

tasunkawitko

very nice, FirstShot!

11 December 2007, 04:38

Whitworth

Nice job, firstshot!! Looks like both you and the rifle are doing your part! What was the range??

"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP

If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.

Semper Fidelis

"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"

12 December 2007, 05:14

First Shot

Range was 100 YDs

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