I love to "blood" a new gun!
Over the weekend, finally got to shoot my new Model 12-F Class in 6.5/284.
Put together some handloads with Sierra 100gr HPs over ~ 47.5 gr H4350 for an estimated (by the book) 3150 f/s.
Started doing the barrel breakin routine of shoot one, clean, shoot one, clean, etc., and got to six before I ran out of time. It takes a while to get all the copper out!
Anyway, I boresighted it at 28 yds and it was printing one bughole on the money, and with my sight height (1.92") according to the ballistics calculator I use, it will be dead-on at 28 yds and 277 yds.
So, for shot #7, I saw a crow sitting out in a fallow field. Lased it with the rangefinder at 92 yds, where according to my ballistics program the bullet would be about 0.92 mil high. Held under about 1 mil using my Leupold TMR reticle, squeezed and THUP! No more crow.
A little while later, a redtailed hawk came and ate what was left of the crow while the crow's friends swooped and shouted obscenities at the hawk.
I love it when the first shot I take at prey with a gun connects! I like the way this gun shoots, and can't wait to work up some loads for it! Unfortunately, I can't seem to seat the 100gr HPs out far enough to contact the throat (as I prefer) but maybe I won't need to. Time will tell, once I get it broken in and benchrest it at some decent ranges.
Anyway, just wanted to share...
