Nice shooting!!!! I shot some sabots out of an old Hawken years ago, just to see what they would do. Much to my surprise they grouped better than what I had shot in it for years.
My laminate stocked T/C Hawken at 200 yards
Per site rules, I post this here because I use sabots and 250 grain .45 caliber XTPs in her.
Powder is 70 grains of 3f Swiss Holy Black.
She wears the factory bead front sight and a T/C aperture rear zeroed at 100 yards. Velocity 1610 fps chrono'd and drop is 22 inches.
200 yards with a sidelock is FUN and attracts attention from the curious and disbelieving.
Powder is 70 grains of 3f Swiss Holy Black.
She wears the factory bead front sight and a T/C aperture rear zeroed at 100 yards. Velocity 1610 fps chrono'd and drop is 22 inches.
200 yards with a sidelock is FUN and attracts attention from the curious and disbelieving.
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Thanks!
She's my best sidelock by a LONG shot.
Using Greenhill's formula, the longest .45 that will stabilize in a 1-48 twist is the 250 grain. That requires a 1-49.
Autumn, her nickname, also likes the 200 and 230 grain .45 XTPs, with the same powder/ charge.
Her first day in the woods, I got 2 doe an hour apart to the minute. Even recovered my first XTP. Expanded to .700 and weighed 238 grains. 100 yard front quartering shot. Got a rib going in, went through her chest like a blender, broke another rib and stopped under the hide.
It's her turn this year, for our October antlerless deer and muzzleloader bear season.
She's my best sidelock by a LONG shot.
Using Greenhill's formula, the longest .45 that will stabilize in a 1-48 twist is the 250 grain. That requires a 1-49.
Autumn, her nickname, also likes the 200 and 230 grain .45 XTPs, with the same powder/ charge.
Her first day in the woods, I got 2 doe an hour apart to the minute. Even recovered my first XTP. Expanded to .700 and weighed 238 grains. 100 yard front quartering shot. Got a rib going in, went through her chest like a blender, broke another rib and stopped under the hide.
It's her turn this year, for our October antlerless deer and muzzleloader bear season.
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