Couple days ago two of the "deer camp" neighbors came over to sight in their deer howitzers. Oh well, waht's a little meat damage when you hack up a carcass so badly that I could get ten more meals off of one they worked on. Savages never heard of neck roast! If I left that much meat on a deer carcass my departed Father would come storming back from the afterlife and slap me up side the head with a shoulder blade.
But Holy Cow! only 12 days to deer gun season. When did that happen? I'm still fishin' walleyes from the boat! All of my fantasies about using a classic .38-40 and cast went right out of the window. I looked at what was laying around, again, and found an ammo pouch of .250 Savage, 6 rounds of 100 grain Ballistic Tips and 6 rounds of 117 gr. Hornady round nose oh and one loose round of the Ballistic Tips. Well that should certainly do it, but.....there was that lonely old box of Herter's 100 grain semi-spitzers. I'm thinking they might have been made by Norma, the shape and tip remind me of Norma Re 6.5x55 ammo I had a long time ago.
Prepped and primered 20 W-W cases and dispensed 34.0 grains of good old stick powder IMR-4064, blue and white metal can courtesy of an old feller with brain cancer in October of 2019. Walked out to the bench spray painted two 2" orange dots on a piece of butcher paper at 80 yards. Used that left over BT round first, bullseye, next a Herter's on the other bull, bullseye. Aimed at a 10" disc of AR-500 hanging on the end of the 160 yard rail, clang, swing, done!
Golly that went well, but I do have to say I have become spoiled by fine target triggers. I thought I forgot to disengage the safety from the little Ruger International. So, grabbed a Ruger International stainless and laminated 10-22 my Dad gave us years ago and went to hackin' at 80 yard prairie dogs off hand. I gotta say, that went so well I wonder why I don't shoot perfect scores with my target grade 22's. Set the scope at 4X to match the .250, adjusted the zero to match standard velocity ammo from the setting for Mini Mag HP's and I do believe I only missed three out of a dozen. Rifle balance all wrong, no muzzle weight, trigger has gritches in it and is fairly heavy and yet I did some creditable shooting. Came in the house and as usual Sue asks, "How'd ya shoot?" I told her I've done worse with better rifles and I was grinnin'.