Post by Buckrub on Jan 5, 2009 13:06:40 GMT -5
I see a lot of new threads about various aspects of accuracy. I love reading y'alls posts, I've learned a lot the easy way due to y'alls efforts.
However, I continue to be personally amazed, flabbergasted, thrilled, tickled, and plumb slack-jawed stunned at the accuracy of my MLII.
Last week at my MIL's farm, after ML season ended, my son, my son in law and I went out skeet shooting in a field next to a tree line, way behind my MIL's house. I'm not much of a wing shot and just watched the two boys bust skeet. But I did have my ML in the truck, having hunted with it the past 3 days at her farm.
My son had actually never shot a ML, believe it or not. He is a 'bow and rifle' man and has a giant buck this year with the rifle, and just never had any interest in putting the bow down to shoot a ML. He says mastering two devices is enough, and there's merit in that, I guess.
Regardless, they wanted to see the Savage shoot, neither had seen Betsy spit fire before.... We didn't have much of a target, so we took a full Dr. Pepper can out to the treeline and stuck it in the branch of a tree that turned out to be 160 yards away.
Bam and kaboom. First shot, I blew the can to smithereens. They were amazed. Retrieval of the can clearly showed the hole, slightly right of dead center by a smidge.
Rifle is sighted in about 2 inches high at 100 yards. Load is 60g of V.V. N120 and a 300g B.O. bullet, HCR black sabot. I aimed right for the can.
So we took another full can out to the furthest tree we could see, turned out to be 203 yards. I showed my son how to load it, and he shot it. First shot missed. Second shot he aimed 2 inches above the can, and bam and kaboom, blew it up!
Now, I truly love reading about all the trials and load variables and amazing bullet modifications and all that from all the shooters here.....but wowzers I have found Nirvanha. I have about 5 lbs of N120 left, and a bunch of bullets. I am like Brother Dave Gardner, who when asked about plunking on one solitary note of the guitar over and over said "Others run up and down the keyboard looking for IT, but I found IT!"..... I am home. This is one blow-me-down, hoo-boy, spiffee, double-clutching, self-sacrificing, major league front-stuffer!!!
Heck, when we shot last week I hadn't even cleaned it from ML season in October, and still haven't, and probably need to get around to that this week!!!
I still have a major problem with the bolt BARELY closing due to some issue with the RB/bushing breechplug, and soon I'll need some help figuring that out (when life settles down some), but other than that, my only remaining question mark is just how far will this thing really shoot? I've finally got it out to 200, what now? What is realistic? My 2009 goal is to find that out.....I expect around 250 to be an honest limit, but don't know yet.
I continue to be very, very puzzled by the extreme variations in these guns; the fact that some folks have such trouble getting them to group well, or shoot well at all, and others like me are so golden. I don't get that, never have, never will. But I'm dang sure one of the lucky ones.
Thanks again to everyone for all the help last year. Anyone need any H322, N110, 5744, or P.E 275g bullets?
I sure don't. 
However, I continue to be personally amazed, flabbergasted, thrilled, tickled, and plumb slack-jawed stunned at the accuracy of my MLII.
Last week at my MIL's farm, after ML season ended, my son, my son in law and I went out skeet shooting in a field next to a tree line, way behind my MIL's house. I'm not much of a wing shot and just watched the two boys bust skeet. But I did have my ML in the truck, having hunted with it the past 3 days at her farm.
My son had actually never shot a ML, believe it or not. He is a 'bow and rifle' man and has a giant buck this year with the rifle, and just never had any interest in putting the bow down to shoot a ML. He says mastering two devices is enough, and there's merit in that, I guess.
Regardless, they wanted to see the Savage shoot, neither had seen Betsy spit fire before.... We didn't have much of a target, so we took a full Dr. Pepper can out to the treeline and stuck it in the branch of a tree that turned out to be 160 yards away.
Bam and kaboom. First shot, I blew the can to smithereens. They were amazed. Retrieval of the can clearly showed the hole, slightly right of dead center by a smidge.
Rifle is sighted in about 2 inches high at 100 yards. Load is 60g of V.V. N120 and a 300g B.O. bullet, HCR black sabot. I aimed right for the can.
So we took another full can out to the furthest tree we could see, turned out to be 203 yards. I showed my son how to load it, and he shot it. First shot missed. Second shot he aimed 2 inches above the can, and bam and kaboom, blew it up!
Now, I truly love reading about all the trials and load variables and amazing bullet modifications and all that from all the shooters here.....but wowzers I have found Nirvanha. I have about 5 lbs of N120 left, and a bunch of bullets. I am like Brother Dave Gardner, who when asked about plunking on one solitary note of the guitar over and over said "Others run up and down the keyboard looking for IT, but I found IT!"..... I am home. This is one blow-me-down, hoo-boy, spiffee, double-clutching, self-sacrificing, major league front-stuffer!!!
Heck, when we shot last week I hadn't even cleaned it from ML season in October, and still haven't, and probably need to get around to that this week!!!
I still have a major problem with the bolt BARELY closing due to some issue with the RB/bushing breechplug, and soon I'll need some help figuring that out (when life settles down some), but other than that, my only remaining question mark is just how far will this thing really shoot? I've finally got it out to 200, what now? What is realistic? My 2009 goal is to find that out.....I expect around 250 to be an honest limit, but don't know yet.
I continue to be very, very puzzled by the extreme variations in these guns; the fact that some folks have such trouble getting them to group well, or shoot well at all, and others like me are so golden. I don't get that, never have, never will. But I'm dang sure one of the lucky ones.
Thanks again to everyone for all the help last year. Anyone need any H322, N110, 5744, or P.E 275g bullets?
I sure don't. 
That's a big target . . . . . . at 20yds. Not so big at 203yds though. 