Fast twist barrels

[45bpcr]

Lobsta is less then beef per pound here, had a couple of good ones on the coast yesterday and in theory, my Darling wife picked some up at the store today.
So I shot those little bullets today. Carolyns rifle is hard for me to shoot as it has a 12 inch LOP. I put an extended recoil pad on it but I'm still all skrunched up behind it.

The 43 grain loads were a waste of powder and lead. 8 inch group at 200 yards. Groups shrunk as the powder charge increased. The 51 grain load hovered around 2 inches.
Her normal load with the heavier bullet goes into less than two inches at the same range.
So I might soften up the alloy to 20-1 and up the powder charge and see what happens, 'cause "everyone" knows, you can't compress Swiss.
I burned 87 rounds down range skrunched up behind her rifle.

I shot alot more through the 40-65, just burning up ammo.
It was a typical day at Sunset Mountain.
Wind was a fishtail headwind running around 15 mph.
Deer were running across the 200 yard line, sometimes you need to put one in the dirt behind them to make them move.
I painted our one ram when I got there and turned him silver with lead. Did that a few times before I got tired.

Thanks Don for having this place to write and share.

Craig