Me and my MK at the Rock Pit
Dec 15, 2010 18:08:51 GMT -5
Post by sabotloader on Dec 15, 2010 18:08:51 GMT -5
The weather here broke last night and I was going nuts not shooting... So this morning I grabbed the MK and headed to Little Boulder Rock Pit....
It was really kinda sunny here in Moscow when I left and the temp was a balmy 34* - when I got to the pit out by Helmer - no sun and 32*... Way good for shooting.
My mission was to continue to learn about the MK, get a a good site-in with the Lehigh Sabotless bullets, and I wanted to move to 110 grains of T7-3f to see if the gun would handle that load with that bullet. My last range session - I had moved the load up 100 grains and it was very good... so will the 110 work.
Here is the setup at the Rock Pit....
I gotta tell you shooting the little MK is really fun. I guess I never really appeciated how good that old gun really is and howe well it shoots. The other thing I am re-thinking, and I have been lectured a bit about this from the 'Dirty White Boys' because I use a 209 in my my White U-Mag, shooting the #11 cap does not seem to handicap this gun at all. Shooting the 110 grain load and the moderately heavier 270 grain bullet - back pressure is not moving the plunger back at all. It certainly is not clean in the breech - but it is not a real mess and it does clean up easily.
I started out shooting the paper because I had never shot the gun at 100 yards and it is a good thing I did - it was way low. Shot 3 shots for a group to get a base (wish I had popped a couple of caps and dry patched the bore but not bad for open sites for me. Made sight adjustments up - then moved to the clay pigeons.... First 2 pigeons at 25 yards were not much of a challenge then the pigeons on the wall were great... one shot - one bird. I will use this gun for Idaho ML season, but I will have to switch to Dan's .5045/460 grain Bull Shops...
The paper target you see out there is not much to show but here is the pic...
After telling you about how well I liked the #11 setup, I am hoping to get out with the gun again tomarrow - this time with a 209 setup installed - got some really interesting testing to do. Problem weather is suppose to go to heck tonight...
It was really kinda sunny here in Moscow when I left and the temp was a balmy 34* - when I got to the pit out by Helmer - no sun and 32*... Way good for shooting.
My mission was to continue to learn about the MK, get a a good site-in with the Lehigh Sabotless bullets, and I wanted to move to 110 grains of T7-3f to see if the gun would handle that load with that bullet. My last range session - I had moved the load up 100 grains and it was very good... so will the 110 work.
Here is the setup at the Rock Pit....
I gotta tell you shooting the little MK is really fun. I guess I never really appeciated how good that old gun really is and howe well it shoots. The other thing I am re-thinking, and I have been lectured a bit about this from the 'Dirty White Boys' because I use a 209 in my my White U-Mag, shooting the #11 cap does not seem to handicap this gun at all. Shooting the 110 grain load and the moderately heavier 270 grain bullet - back pressure is not moving the plunger back at all. It certainly is not clean in the breech - but it is not a real mess and it does clean up easily.
I started out shooting the paper because I had never shot the gun at 100 yards and it is a good thing I did - it was way low. Shot 3 shots for a group to get a base (wish I had popped a couple of caps and dry patched the bore but not bad for open sites for me. Made sight adjustments up - then moved to the clay pigeons.... First 2 pigeons at 25 yards were not much of a challenge then the pigeons on the wall were great... one shot - one bird. I will use this gun for Idaho ML season, but I will have to switch to Dan's .5045/460 grain Bull Shops...
The paper target you see out there is not much to show but here is the pic...
After telling you about how well I liked the #11 setup, I am hoping to get out with the gun again tomarrow - this time with a 209 setup installed - got some really interesting testing to do. Problem weather is suppose to go to heck tonight...