I have a Knight inline that I have been shooting the 250 grn barnes/ knight bullets. It will make mickey mouse shapes at 150 yards. I hsoot pellets 150 grn 209 primer. Gun has always been a great shooter. I bought some 240 grn areo tip power belts. I can not hit the side of a barn standing inside..

Groups are 6-9 inches??

I should have kept the target but was too mad. Any on else have a a problem with them??

I bought some barnes again and a pack of shock wave sabots by T/C in 200 grn. I like the barnes but I put 3 inches of my ram rod through my hand between teh thumb and finger last year . They are hard to load in my gun and the rod broke and my hand went down on to the rod.

Has any one tried the T/C bullets they hae a plastic tip too but the 200 grn should shoot very flat and still offer some great down range enegry. They have a interlock in the bullet , any one know where I could get the BC for bullets like this??

For whatever it's worth, I shoot 295 gr. PowerBelts in front of 2 pyrodex pellets, and my Encore will shoot 1 1/2 inch groups all day. Windex every three shots, and then dry patch. Saying this however, I have had no luck with the lighter bullet, or the 150 grain charge. I guess you just have to experiment till you find what your gun prefers.

Have a Remington 700 ML. Using the lighter PowerBelt with 100 grains of KleenShot by volume, I have had to clean between shots to get groups. It is actually OK with me as that is the condition of the rifle when I hunt.

The lighter bullet expands explosively on deer at 50 yards. Drop's in their tracks. All bullets so far have been found under the far side skin.

I went back out today and shot a 3 shot group of 1.10 at 150 yards with 200 grn t/c shockers. The store was out of the Barnes bullets. I would be unhappy with 1 1/2 groups at 100 yards with my gun. Not rying to get any one upset buy my knight has always been as very good shooting gun.

I may try these as they are shooting 2 inched flater at 150 compared to the 240 grn bullets.

Instead of 6 inch low at 200 it, not it is only 4 low. I did find a few of the belt from the power belts and they where blow out, and where very black. Maybe the bore in my rifle is a tad larger from shooting for 8 years.

All Iknow is that a group that size at 150 is great and I will give them a try this fall. Plus they are a bonded bullet with a partion inside. SHould work great. I wish my chrono was working

[ 10-26-2003, 02:21: Message edited by: Steve in MI ]

I haven't had good luck with Power Belts either. I've tried them in three rifles;50 cal. Green Mountain Barrelled Renegade, CVA 54 sidelock, and a CVA inline. All three shoot other loads with good to excellant accuracy but none would do any better than your results with the powerbelts. I tried 2F black, loose Pyrodext, and Pyrodex Pellets. All barrels were in new to like new condition. go figure.