Grinch-fest at Bart's
Last Saturday Dean and Brett Stroud from Cape Girardeau (Grinch Creators) along with Gregg King came for a day of tuning and testing! Weather was a bit on the cool side so everyone headed into the "Monkey Hut" ( how it came by its name is another story) to setup and shoot.
Gregg on the Bench, Brett on the spottting scope!
First up to bat was Gregg King with a brand new Krieger 12 twist barrel shooting 80 grain Dominators. Gregg has been on a roll this year winning the last couple of matches he attended. A few months back Gregg ordered the last 12 twist Krieger that Bruno's had in stock. It's my experience that cut rifle barrels often need a few rounds on them before they start to shoot. However with Gregg's new barrel that wasn't the case. It started shooting right out of the gate. Here's a pic of his groups. The amazing thing about this barrel is its load window. Starting on the first row at the far left Gregg kept going up in powder on each group. The last group looked like it flipped a shot but I thought it was due to conditions. On second row right below it we re-shot the same powder charge and it shot a nice .129. Now we are working back to the left on the second row. The barrel allowed us to go up in powder one more time before the tune came apart shooting a .109. For a short range barrel that is a incredibly large tuning window. I'm not for sure I've ever seen a barrel with that wide of a window. Brett's words were, "he's the luckiest little SOB I've ever seen!"
Next up was Dean's rifle with a new 8 twist brux barrel. Dean had preloaded about 50 rounds of 103 grain Dominators to try. The first group out of the gun was less than satisfactory. So we started seating the bullets deeper into the case .005 each group. After our forth attempt we hit pay-dirt. The last group was a nice .109 with 4 shots in it. We called it good.
Brett broke out his rifle. It had an old barrel (1200 rounds) that he knew shot. His goal was to test N135 with the Grinch and 80 grain bullets. The first row starting with the .117 and going left was four different loads. Looks like the the N135 has some merit. The bottom row was trying to fine tune the seating depth. I believe we settled on a depth that was about .015 deeper into the lands then were we started.
Billy Steven's this years Super Shoot winner even dropped in and made a cameo appearance. He wanted to come down and meet the boys and say hello to Gregg whom we have known for the past 20 years.
A file photo of Billy but I think it pretty much captures the essence of his personality!
A great day of shooting and comradery at the Sauter Estate!
The Three Amigos Greg King and Brett and Dean Stroud!
Bart
Last Saturday Dean and Brett Stroud from Cape Girardeau (Grinch Creators) along with Gregg King came for a day of tuning and testing! Weather was a bit on the cool side so everyone headed into the "Monkey Hut" ( how it came by its name is another story) to setup and shoot.
Gregg on the Bench, Brett on the spottting scope!
First up to bat was Gregg King with a brand new Krieger 12 twist barrel shooting 80 grain Dominators. Gregg has been on a roll this year winning the last couple of matches he attended. A few months back Gregg ordered the last 12 twist Krieger that Bruno's had in stock. It's my experience that cut rifle barrels often need a few rounds on them before they start to shoot. However with Gregg's new barrel that wasn't the case. It started shooting right out of the gate. Here's a pic of his groups. The amazing thing about this barrel is its load window. Starting on the first row at the far left Gregg kept going up in powder on each group. The last group looked like it flipped a shot but I thought it was due to conditions. On second row right below it we re-shot the same powder charge and it shot a nice .129. Now we are working back to the left on the second row. The barrel allowed us to go up in powder one more time before the tune came apart shooting a .109. For a short range barrel that is a incredibly large tuning window. I'm not for sure I've ever seen a barrel with that wide of a window. Brett's words were, "he's the luckiest little SOB I've ever seen!"
Next up was Dean's rifle with a new 8 twist brux barrel. Dean had preloaded about 50 rounds of 103 grain Dominators to try. The first group out of the gun was less than satisfactory. So we started seating the bullets deeper into the case .005 each group. After our forth attempt we hit pay-dirt. The last group was a nice .109 with 4 shots in it. We called it good.
Brett broke out his rifle. It had an old barrel (1200 rounds) that he knew shot. His goal was to test N135 with the Grinch and 80 grain bullets. The first row starting with the .117 and going left was four different loads. Looks like the the N135 has some merit. The bottom row was trying to fine tune the seating depth. I believe we settled on a depth that was about .015 deeper into the lands then were we started.
Billy Steven's this years Super Shoot winner even dropped in and made a cameo appearance. He wanted to come down and meet the boys and say hello to Gregg whom we have known for the past 20 years.
A file photo of Billy but I think it pretty much captures the essence of his personality!
A great day of shooting and comradery at the Sauter Estate!
The Three Amigos Greg King and Brett and Dean Stroud!
Bart
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