knight rifles?

Mark whiz - hey, another PR Bullet user! I love these dang bullets, been shooting them since they came out and I've made one 150 yard shot with the 180 grain bullet. I bought some of their new 195 grain (wow, that's really heavy for me) Duplex sabots and plan to see how they shoot when turkey season is over.

What weight PR bullet do you shoot?
 
tp -

I shoot the heavier bullets. The first time I ordered I talked to Cecil there at PR and his suggestion was to use the 400gr Extreme bullets.............. I thought DAYUM that's gonna kick like a mule :eek: . But I went with his suggestion (and ordered some 360 gr bullets too) and he was absolutely right........................I had been shooting the lighter Knight bullets that came with the gun and accuracy was horrible, I dropped in one of those 400s and Boom - instant bulleyes.....................Cecil knows his stuff. And you ought to see the hole that 400gr bullet made on a Corsican ram I took with it - UGLY hole :D

After a lot of load experimentation, I've found that I can shoot anything from 300gr up with good results as long as I don't try to push the velocity issue.
 
400 grains - holy cow! I don't think I could hit anything since both eyes would be closed when shooting those. What kind of trajectory drop do you get between 100 to 150 yard ranges? Thanks.
 
tp -

I really can't say what the drop between 100 and 150yds would be - I've never really shot that big honker past 100yds.
My rifle has high see-thru scope sights on it and when I shoot the big boys at 50yds they have risen high enough to hit the bullseye and by 100 yds have dropped enough to be back on the bullseye.................. so they shoot pretty flat but I'd expect some pretty significant drop by 150 yds - possibly up to 5 inches. Shooting them with 100gr of 3fg 777 powder gives a muzzle velocity averaging 1519fps - if you have a trajectory calculator you can plug in the numbers and at least get a feel for the drop.
 
well i put the fixed 4x modern weaver on the supplyed weaver mounts. its the one i shot 300 yards with and got a 3inch group(while it was on my .270)win. hope to shoot it tomorrow. gonna shoot the 348gr. .50 powerbelt, the 275 gr maxiball and maybe some 210gr. .429 speer jhp dont know how they will work. if there is any help you can give i need all i can get.
 
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Well,
With the powerbelts, don't try to over power them - the 348s I shoot with 90gr of 2fg 777............much more and the powercheck cups don't want to seperate from the bullet and that kills accuracy. In fact, before shooting them lube the posts that the cup fits on to help them seperate easier.

I never had any luck with those maxi-balls, but I would suggest no more than about 70 to 80gr of 777 with them - about like shooting patched balls.

I would start those 210gr sabots at 80grs too and work up in 5gr increments from there and see what works best.
 
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