Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:43 pm
Yesterday, my son and I went into the woods for a shooting session. I fired 45 rounds of the 140 gr. FTX loads and 50 rounds of the 200 gr. FTX loads and was very impressed with the accuracy. Although I was not shooting under bench rest conditions, I was able to bust rocks and sticks with regularity at 125 yards, standing, off hand. More than ample for hunting purposes. And that is with the rifle sighted in at 50 feet. I'm very anxious to get to a range for fine tuning.
We did have a couple of mishaps. I was firing his 6.5mm x .257 Roberts (bolt action) and one had a case head separation and blew hot gases and powder back in my face. Bloodied my nose and today it is nice and brown.....an instant sun tan, as it were. Glad I had my glasses on.
We did have a couple of mishaps. I was firing his 6.5mm x .257 Roberts (bolt action) and one had a case head separation and blew hot gases and powder back in my face. Bloodied my nose and today it is nice and brown.....an instant sun tan, as it were. Glad I had my glasses on.