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Got Cannons ?

In the shop this morning. Must be breeding season.

It's been a while since I have taken a Road Trip due to July being hot & dry. All of July I caught 2.8" rain.
Today I was GLADLY delayed by rain this AM. I caught 1" last pm and this am.

Me and Ole Harley took a Road trip today.
Pine Ridge is a community where the "Lum & Abner" radio program was focused in the 30-50s.
This is the "Jot'em Down Store" & Museum. They REALLY lived & broadcast here then.



On W from there you come to Mena Ar and go up Wihelmina Mtn.





Yeah, Today is Monday but COVID is the main culprit.
NO ONE was in the Park.



It's only a couple or 3 miles to the Ok. State Line



Got home @ 4:00 pm, No rain, No problems




Ahhhhhhh

Jerry

Great pictures Buddy! Scoots looking good!

We’ve had similar weather in VA. Hotter than heck and humid quite a lot.

Thnx B

Indeed we have been Hot & Humid. So far we have not officially hit
100*F but have several days of 100+ Index.

Today was refreshing for August.

Truthfully I stumbled onto Harley. I wasn’t looking even.
I’ve had it 4 yrs and put 12 K mi on it.
It’s the most comfortable bike I’ve ever owned.

Jerry

For sure. I have an 18 Road Glide and Pops has a 19 Road Glide Limited. Once we got our seats sorted out some they have been really good scoots for us.

Looks like a nice day. After over 50 years of riding I joined the dark side last fall.

Hell yeah! Nice bike buddy. That’s sharp too.

[quote=Blacktailer]Looks like a nice day. After over 50 years of riding I joined the dark side last fall.


OH YEAH ! as Macho Man would say ! S....HARP!

Jerry

Huge pass

+1

Green with envy here!

ya!

GWB

Just fer schitz n'giggles.

















Never have been into long range shooting, but I'm thinking about pairing this with a Sig Sierra 6BDX , 4.5-14 x 44 Optic and a Sig Kilo2400 BDX Rangefinder and later a Kestrel 5700 Elite. I've a spot that I can take shots at +/- 670 yds. out to the horizon, or at least the nearest hill........




IIRC, ranged with my Leica Rangefinder.......

Feeder, 175 yds.

Left Dot is +/- 670 yds.

Right Dot, +/- 950 yds

Middle Dot, +/- 1,250 yds

ya!

GWB

GWB I would wait for the Sig Kilo 5000 or Kilo 10K to come out. You won't need the Kestrel then. The Bluetooth interface with the scope, bino's, and Kestrel isn't great in the Kilo 3000 and under products. There can be connectivity issues. They have things fine tuned in the 5K and 10K's the 10K's will have a HUD in the left tube as well. Something to think about anyways!

How's that beautiful new rig shoot "G"? You got quite the "hide" there

In reverse order.

If you are in Frisco Tx. you know the score on trespass leases. This spot which I call "The Canopy" is on Dolph Brisco's homestead ranch about 5 Miles below Concan off SH-83.

This property has probably been hunted close to 100 years now. My buds and I have been here since 2004. It is located on the back side of one of the hills on the property. Evidently in the 70's the juniper was not so overgrown and the guys that had this "pasture" then had access to heavy equipment. No other way they could have got the material up there, put together and erected. The legs of the stand are constructed of 2" sucker rod and the frame is angle iron. It is probably close to 50 years old and now the plywood on the sides has mostly rotted off and the roof leaks like a sieve. I'm pretty much a minimalist in that I usually hunt out of tripods or set up a chair on the side of a cliff or next to a tree, so the fact that it is dilapidated bothers me very little. I do love the view.




northwesterly view





Southeasterly view




easterly view from the spin-cast feeder in the first picture, to the stand on top.

It too is one of the few places I can get cell signal.

Now to the rifle.

I hate to say it but my first outing with the Christensen was sub-par, IMHO, but some of that is probably my fault.

Some caveats, observations and thoughts.

I picked the rifle up earlier in the day Friday. I did not clean the barrel nor tighten any of the action screws. The fellow that mounted the scope is a competition shooter and knows his stuff and used an inch-pound torque wrench to tighten both the fasteners on the Vortex Ring Bases.

He bore sighted it and from the targets included below, you can see that he did a good job of getting it on paper (see shot #1)

IIRC the rifle info indicated that the trigger was adjustable. The literature that comes with the rifle states that the trigger is factory pre-set and that if it is adjusted or changed out, it voids the warranty. The trigger breaks clean with no creep, but I prefer about a 2 lb pull.

I shoot off a lead sled, as rifles with significant recoil can cause a guy to flinch after a few rounds. The 300 PRC, with the muzzle brake installed surprised me with the amount of recoil.

I typically do a barrel break in procedure on a rifle such as this with 50 to 100 strokes with a bronze bore brush coated with a JB Bore Paste/Kroil Mixture, then follow up with cotton patches until they come out clean (or as close to clean as they are going to get). I did not do this as I was going to pack to head to my lease the next morning.

IIRC I fired 11 rounds. The velocity is printed on the boxes and is 2,810 MV for the Match ammo and 2,860 for the Hunting ammo. I was surprised how quick the carbon fiber wrapped barrel hearted up. I do not have another carbon fiber barrel, so I do not know if this is a plus or minus. Perhaps the carbon tends to dissipate heat quicker than a steel barrel. Consequently IIRC I fired three round and then let the barrel cool for at least 5 minutes.

I did not get to the range until about 6:30PM and shooting light ends at 8PM. By the time I got everything set up and targets hung, @100 and 200, it was 7PM. Rather than shoot groups, I decided to fudge and make adjustments on the fly. Probably not the best idea, but my idea was that If it was a 1.5-2MOA shooter, I could perforate a porker @200 with no problems.

So I fired a round to see if it was on paper. When I bought the rifle I also purchased two boxes of hunting ammo and one box of Match ammo. I do not shoot much less hunt with match ammo, but I figured this would give me a total of 60 pieces of brass, help me foul in the barrel and give an indication as to what the rifle liked. It is my impression from the limited rounds down the barrel that this rifle prefers the Hunting ELD-X’s over the ELD-M match ammo. (see targets, POA vs. POI)

My friend Jason (Sakohunter 264) loads the 300 PRC for his buds Christensen, and says that it’s a 1-hole with the 180 Gr. Nosler Accubonds.

In the next week or so I’ll shoot more of the factory ammo and see if I can implore Jason to load me a couple of different variations of powder and bullets to see if I can foul in the barrel and what kind of accuracy I can achieve.









Ya!

GWB

GWB,
Let us know how the Sig BDX works out. I picked up a BDX rangefinder and have been considering pairing up a scope with it.
Nice rig BTW.

After a conversation with MCH in regard to upcoming Sig product releases, I'm going to wait at least a couple weeks before I "pull the trigger".

Will get back, if and when.
Best,
GWB