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[Oldbloke]

You cannot get the case head over 1000F.

Yes, and that would be grey. Not going to happen.

 

[JFrank]

@Straightshooter1
Do you have a range day planned soon ? I’m curious as to your on target results.

Thanks for testing and posting.

 

[Straightshooter1]

@Straightshooter1
Do you have a range day planned soon ? I’m curious as to your on target results.

Thanks for testing and posting.

Yeah, you kind of mentioned that before and I was going to do that back then. These days I don't keep pictures of my results, though I do take pictures and use OnTarget to get measurements, then record that data into my spreadsheet.

I was out this morning, but it wasn't a good day due to having sit and a shoot in the sun with ambient temperature at 95°F. Everything was heating up fast and for some reason I was having trouble with parallax. I'll have to make it a point to get a current series of 5 shot groups to actually show what's more representative. Anyway, here's today's:

And if it's of any interest, here what today's fired cases look like:


Last December when doing some various testing, this for a baseline from my go to load (a little better than usual and lucky given my eyesight issue at the time):


Typically, I get 5 round groups in the low .4's, where I'd say that's average for me with my .308 RPR and a little better with my 6.5 PRC RPR.

Not to make excuses, but . . .

Last September I went in for cataract surgery and had multifocal lenses implanted. It was very disappointing to start with. I initially told the doctor, far vision was what was very important to me and was assured that's what I'd get but might need reading glasses with these lenses. It turned out it was just the opposite, though glasses wouldn't help with the far vision. I could read things at 20/20, anything else, like watching TV was either blurry or I was seeing like double with ghosting images everywhere during the day. Night time was really bad, seeing triple lights, stars or moon, where there should be one image. I was told to give my brain time to adjust. . . .like having to wait from Sept. into January before deciding if anything needed to be done or not. That ghosting was a real problem shooting.

January, then February and into April appointments, the tests showed that things were not improving. There was talk about having Lasik to correct things. Got a new doctor and he gave me better alternatives, one of which was to replace one or both of the lenses. I agreed to replace the one in my dominate eye with a mono lens for distance and leave the other since I could read well with it. That was done in late May this year. Turns out leaving it with this way with two difference lenses is working pretty well for me now as distance is fine as is reading. The multifocal lens that works for reading still has the issue as before when I close my other eye. But both eye open, close up for reading to distance works fine now.

By the time I got my eyes taken care of and it all settled down, it's Arizona summer and little opportunities for shooting in comfortable temperatures. I'm looking forward for more shooting this fall!