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Alas, the 400-grainer Shootoff with Daisy the Ruger No. 1 has been marred by the old girl developing some vertical stringing,
or by the nut behind the trigger developing it.
I will check out all of Daisy's joints for tightness, at buttstock-to-action, forearm hanger, quarter rib, and scope.

At least I think the velocity data is good, even if accuracy comparisons must wait.
I had 29 pieces of brass ready for handloads, and fired 10 rounds of the Buffalo Bore ammo and 5 rounds of Hornady factory ammo.
Handloads were for 5 bullets of each of 5 different bullets
except 4 only of the Barnes Buster to make a total of 29.
29 + 10 + 5 = 44





First load fired was the ball-pointed 423-grainer from Bubba.
It was aimed at the center line between two 16" square targets at 100 yards, one above the other, no space between them on the cardboard backer.
First two shots were touching and near center of lower target.
Then they started "walking" vertically:



Scope adjustments allowed the 402-gr Shock Hammer to hit near the Point Of Aim,
with the thought going forward being to use first two shots to judge a scope adjustment for the next 3 shots



Buffalo Bore claimed 2250 fps for their load with the Barnes 400-gr TSX in a 22"-barreled factory M70, .458 WM.
Daisy's 24" Ruger barrel made it do 2336 fps MV for an average of 10 shot.
First 5 shots of the TSX after the Hammer bullets:



Last 5 shots of the day fired after 39 preceding, and no scope adjustment for this one: