BH209-I'm a believer. - 01/23/12
Just got in from trying this stuff out for the first time and all I can say is "Wow".
No crud ring and every bullet goes down like the one before.
I was shooting my TC Bone Collector. Got in 20 shots before the I was rained out.
I had my chronograph set up. Here are a few velocities for those interested.
Hornady 240 gr. XTP's 90 grs. gave me 1685 fps. Following couple shots gave me real slow readings (600 fps,585 fps,) I think due to the sabot. At any rate I moved the chronograph closer and had no more issues.
I went right to the Barnes 290 gr. TMZ with Harvester yellow crush ribbed sabots. 90 grs. gave 1681 fps.
Wanting more than that I jumped to 110 grs. for 1877,1881, and 1871 fps.
That was a bit more like it.
120 grs. gave 1971,1984, 1975 fps.
I had three Hornady 350 gr. FPB's left over. I really like these bullets. They slid down very easily after starting them. I cut back to 110 grs. and velocities were 1776,1772,1763 fps into a nice tight group.
Accuracy wise everything shot good. I was shooting at 100 yards off the hood of my truck in a pretty good wind a drizzle
and was more or less looking for velocities and adjusting my point of aim. I planned on stretching things out to 200 yards for accuracy testing but got rained out.
I was shooting three shot strings for velocity and all the groups were two inches or less with bullets touching on a few occasions.
My Bone Collector weighs 7 pounds on the nose with a Nikon In line 3-9 and DNZ mounts minus the rod as I was shooting. I was surprised out how much the Sims pad, and I think even the energy bars contribute, softened the recoil. This gun is a pussy cat to shoot.
I'm pretty happy with the Nikon scope. It has a pretty forgiving eye box and gobs of eye relief. Dang nice glass too. Good adjustments and pretty nice mini turrets under the caps.
The BH 209 made it a real joy to shoot. No patching, crud ring or varying force needed to push the bullets down. Consistent.
Won't flow for chit through my brass flask so I am going to have to do something there.
But yeah, there is no going back.
No crud ring and every bullet goes down like the one before.
I was shooting my TC Bone Collector. Got in 20 shots before the I was rained out.
I had my chronograph set up. Here are a few velocities for those interested.
Hornady 240 gr. XTP's 90 grs. gave me 1685 fps. Following couple shots gave me real slow readings (600 fps,585 fps,) I think due to the sabot. At any rate I moved the chronograph closer and had no more issues.
I went right to the Barnes 290 gr. TMZ with Harvester yellow crush ribbed sabots. 90 grs. gave 1681 fps.
Wanting more than that I jumped to 110 grs. for 1877,1881, and 1871 fps.
That was a bit more like it.
120 grs. gave 1971,1984, 1975 fps.
I had three Hornady 350 gr. FPB's left over. I really like these bullets. They slid down very easily after starting them. I cut back to 110 grs. and velocities were 1776,1772,1763 fps into a nice tight group.
Accuracy wise everything shot good. I was shooting at 100 yards off the hood of my truck in a pretty good wind a drizzle
and was more or less looking for velocities and adjusting my point of aim. I planned on stretching things out to 200 yards for accuracy testing but got rained out.
I was shooting three shot strings for velocity and all the groups were two inches or less with bullets touching on a few occasions.
My Bone Collector weighs 7 pounds on the nose with a Nikon In line 3-9 and DNZ mounts minus the rod as I was shooting. I was surprised out how much the Sims pad, and I think even the energy bars contribute, softened the recoil. This gun is a pussy cat to shoot.
I'm pretty happy with the Nikon scope. It has a pretty forgiving eye box and gobs of eye relief. Dang nice glass too. Good adjustments and pretty nice mini turrets under the caps.
The BH 209 made it a real joy to shoot. No patching, crud ring or varying force needed to push the bullets down. Consistent.
Won't flow for chit through my brass flask so I am going to have to do something there.
But yeah, there is no going back.
Thanks Bigblock.