On Saturday, July 13th, three of us had a "Shootout" with three Dashers at the Copperhead Cove range near Winnsboro, LA. The participants were as follows: Rusty Durham of Haynesville, Ricky Reeves of Haynesville, and yours truly of Baskin. The range is on a friend's farm (Bob Nelson) and we thank him for the use of the range and also for allowing us to stay overnight in his very nice guest house.
This is a preliminary report since I am having trouble retrieving pictures from my camera. The rifles used today are as follows:
Rusty Durham- Stiller Cobra (aka Mutt) shooting 32.2 gr. of Varget and 107 Sierra Matchkings. Billy Stevens chambered the 7.83 Brux barrel.
James Mock-Stolle Panda w/ 32.2 gr. of Varget and 108 Berger Bt @300 and Bart's 105 Infinity @ 600. Dusty Stevens chambered the 7.5 twist Krieger barrel.
Ricky Reeves- 40x Remington (unable to post picture) w/ Laminated wood stock and Bartlein barrel chambered by Dixie Gun Works. To be fair the 40x was having ignition problems and did not give us a fair representation of its potential accuracy.
A word about the overall winner.. the Mutt, was bought at a yard sale by Ricky Reeves a few years ago, and it was UGLY. However, it showed extreme accuracy with a Krieger 6 PPC barrel. I traded for it and added a Panda barrel to it (the barrel required no fitting for the Stiller Mutt). I had it painted a metallic gray by a local auto body shop. At 80 years of age, I cut way back on my shooting and sold the Mutt to Rusty.
When I first posted about having this Dasher test, Butch Lambert correctly stated that with three shooters shooting three rifles, there would be confusion. However, there is quite a bit of data that we got on this WARM Louisiana day.
At 300 yards the Mutt really showed true accuracy with a .570 inch agg w/ three shooters.
At 600 yards the Panda finished first w/ an agg. of 2.23 inches.
With the ignition problems, the 40X had one terrible group that destroyed its agg. Ricky Reeves did have a victory because he shot the best agg with the three rifles at two distances and had the smallest group at both distances. (.401 and 2.02 ")
Here is a picture taken a few years ago at the Copperhead Cove.
PS- The 40x was shot by all three shooters and the scores were used. Most groups were okay, but there was several pieced primers and mis fires. The one 6"+ group ruined the agg. for that rifle. Ricky plans to have the firing pin aperture bushed and other remedies done. The rifle has great potential in my opinion.
This is a preliminary report since I am having trouble retrieving pictures from my camera. The rifles used today are as follows:
Rusty Durham- Stiller Cobra (aka Mutt) shooting 32.2 gr. of Varget and 107 Sierra Matchkings. Billy Stevens chambered the 7.83 Brux barrel.
James Mock-Stolle Panda w/ 32.2 gr. of Varget and 108 Berger Bt @300 and Bart's 105 Infinity @ 600. Dusty Stevens chambered the 7.5 twist Krieger barrel.
Ricky Reeves- 40x Remington (unable to post picture) w/ Laminated wood stock and Bartlein barrel chambered by Dixie Gun Works. To be fair the 40x was having ignition problems and did not give us a fair representation of its potential accuracy.
A word about the overall winner.. the Mutt, was bought at a yard sale by Ricky Reeves a few years ago, and it was UGLY. However, it showed extreme accuracy with a Krieger 6 PPC barrel. I traded for it and added a Panda barrel to it (the barrel required no fitting for the Stiller Mutt). I had it painted a metallic gray by a local auto body shop. At 80 years of age, I cut way back on my shooting and sold the Mutt to Rusty.
When I first posted about having this Dasher test, Butch Lambert correctly stated that with three shooters shooting three rifles, there would be confusion. However, there is quite a bit of data that we got on this WARM Louisiana day.
At 300 yards the Mutt really showed true accuracy with a .570 inch agg w/ three shooters.
At 600 yards the Panda finished first w/ an agg. of 2.23 inches.
With the ignition problems, the 40X had one terrible group that destroyed its agg. Ricky Reeves did have a victory because he shot the best agg with the three rifles at two distances and had the smallest group at both distances. (.401 and 2.02 ")
Here is a picture taken a few years ago at the Copperhead Cove.PS- The 40x was shot by all three shooters and the scores were used. Most groups were okay, but there was several pieced primers and mis fires. The one 6"+ group ruined the agg. for that rifle. Ricky plans to have the firing pin aperture bushed and other remedies done. The rifle has great potential in my opinion.
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