I spent a couple hours at the local indoor range Sunday, watching ALLEN sight in his 500 mag revolver
and I can assure you its was rather informative,
We were using both factory hornady 300 grain ammo
a good example of why you use a 440-480 grain hard cast bullet in a 500 mag revolver, notice hollow points don,t punch nearly as deep
and my hand-loads posed earlier in the thread, (above)
I was rather amazed at the big difference in accuracy and impact point!
his revolvers previously sighted in with the hand loads and its hitting dead center horizontally and vertically ,
with a nice tight group of about 2" at 25 yards for allen,
when I shoot the 500 S&W revolver the groups tight but about 1" low at 25 yards
I noticed the front sights not easy to see in the reduced lighting in the range.
swapping to the hornady ammo, recoils noticeably a bit snappy ,
but no more difficult to control , with the factory hornady ammo,
but both of our groups impacted about 6-7 inches lower and 6-7 inches to the right.
even with max sight adjustment that can,t be compensated for.
so we just re-sighted in with the same hand loaded hard cast ammo hes been successfully using.
btw the range charges $1 a target, you can download and print 10 or more for that price
http://www.targetz.com/targets01.htm
obviously once we got the pistol to group consistently,
we re-adjusted the sights to move the bullet impact,
to hit about 2" above the point of aim ,
or about 3" higher,and on center.
and I can assure you its was rather informative,
We were using both factory hornady 300 grain ammo
a good example of why you use a 440-480 grain hard cast bullet in a 500 mag revolver, notice hollow points don,t punch nearly as deep
and my hand-loads posed earlier in the thread, (above)
I was rather amazed at the big difference in accuracy and impact point!
his revolvers previously sighted in with the hand loads and its hitting dead center horizontally and vertically ,
with a nice tight group of about 2" at 25 yards for allen,
when I shoot the 500 S&W revolver the groups tight but about 1" low at 25 yards
I noticed the front sights not easy to see in the reduced lighting in the range.
swapping to the hornady ammo, recoils noticeably a bit snappy ,
but no more difficult to control , with the factory hornady ammo,
but both of our groups impacted about 6-7 inches lower and 6-7 inches to the right.
even with max sight adjustment that can,t be compensated for.
so we just re-sighted in with the same hand loaded hard cast ammo hes been successfully using.
btw the range charges $1 a target, you can download and print 10 or more for that price
http://www.targetz.com/targets01.htm
obviously once we got the pistol to group consistently,
we re-adjusted the sights to move the bullet impact,
to hit about 2" above the point of aim ,
or about 3" higher,and on center.
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