Was cold, but if I can sit still in a tree all day... I can take the range!
I FINALLY got some Aliant 300MP as well as Vitavoy N110. I chose to use Hornady, Zmax bullets because I have so many. and because for some reason I've never been able to make a well in this Ares rifle. Well they still didn't she will more on this later. :shock:
I shot for five or six, different loads over the chronograph at about 10 to 12 feet from the muzzle .
My load of 17 1/2 g of 296 with a 125 grain bullet was 2100 and change fee per second. (No pic)
What the big surprise was, those Barnes 110 black tips and 296. 19 grains and 19.7 grains crimped and not. Crimped gave about 50 ft./s increase in velocity. (Less accuracy) Non-crimped reached mid 2300's and crimped low 2400's!!!
CRIMPED
NON CRIMPED
But I wasn't too thrilled with my accuracy of the new loads.
I loaded 16, 16 1/2 grains 17 and 17 1/2 grains of the N110. Then 19, 19.5, 20, 20.5 of the 300 MP Alliant powder. Shot them at 50 yards from sandbags just like I always. Nothing grouped bigger than inch and a half , but I only had a couple bullets touching . 50 yared, & That is quite uncommon for the rifle . But then again, these are two powders I've never used before loads I never tried before and bullets that never seem to shoot as well as others .
Well the accuracy problem was the single ring that was holding the red dot sight was never tightened down. Totally my fault I rushed to mount the scope this morning, I had previously mounted the ring to the scope. I just threw it on the rifle I never checked the six screws that hold the ring to the scope . Senior moment I guess!! So it's a waste of bullets but I got some trigger time & chrono results.
CW
I FINALLY got some Aliant 300MP as well as Vitavoy N110. I chose to use Hornady, Zmax bullets because I have so many. and because for some reason I've never been able to make a well in this Ares rifle. Well they still didn't she will more on this later. :shock:
I shot for five or six, different loads over the chronograph at about 10 to 12 feet from the muzzle .
My load of 17 1/2 g of 296 with a 125 grain bullet was 2100 and change fee per second. (No pic)
What the big surprise was, those Barnes 110 black tips and 296. 19 grains and 19.7 grains crimped and not. Crimped gave about 50 ft./s increase in velocity. (Less accuracy) Non-crimped reached mid 2300's and crimped low 2400's!!!
CRIMPED
NON CRIMPED
But I wasn't too thrilled with my accuracy of the new loads.
I loaded 16, 16 1/2 grains 17 and 17 1/2 grains of the N110. Then 19, 19.5, 20, 20.5 of the 300 MP Alliant powder. Shot them at 50 yards from sandbags just like I always. Nothing grouped bigger than inch and a half , but I only had a couple bullets touching . 50 yared, & That is quite uncommon for the rifle . But then again, these are two powders I've never used before loads I never tried before and bullets that never seem to shoot as well as others .
Well the accuracy problem was the single ring that was holding the red dot sight was never tightened down. Totally my fault I rushed to mount the scope this morning, I had previously mounted the ring to the scope. I just threw it on the rifle I never checked the six screws that hold the ring to the scope . Senior moment I guess!! So it's a waste of bullets but I got some trigger time & chrono results.
CW