tucker301

If you're going to be shooting a lot of trap and skeet, consider a gas-operated gun instead of a recoil-operated one. The SBEII is a hunter, first and foremost. It's designed to shoot hunting loads, not those whimpy light target loads. Beretta, Browning, and Winchester all make fine gas-operating weapons.

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think we should sugarcoat anything to appease them either. Nobody shoots PD's for the meat. They are disease carrying pests that can render land barren and useless. It's fun to shoot them and watch them explode from the impact. That's the appeal of the sport, and that site accurately portrays that.

Oh, so you're a red mist man, are you? I'll bet you'd like this site.

I wouldn't worry about it as long as the steel seems to be unaffected.

simp, Is it peeling on the inside of the tube?

I'll bet having that bolt back did make that a hard bugger to compress I always have the bolt completely out when working on mine. You're going to find it much easier now!

Roughly, a MOA (minute of angle) works out to be 1" at 100 yards. As you know, the farther an angle goes from its source, the wider the spread, so at 500 yards, it's about 5". There is a complex mathematical formula for calculating and measuring MOA, but I just use the 1" @ 100 yards. Had the above group been 2.5", it would have been .5 MOA, which means it could shoot 1/2" at 100 yards, 1" @ 200, and so on. When measuring a group, it's measured across the distance between the outside edges of the holes farthest apart. Then the diameter of the bullet is deducted from that. Here's a picture showing the measurements and the load data. Considering the mirage across a hay field at 500 yards, and the varying winds, I was probably more lucky than good, but I'll take it either way! More on MOA and Trajectory

The group measures 2.991". Someone on the Savage site said that it works out to be slightly over .5 MOA.

i'll bet he's got the bolt locked open

I thought no one would ever ask! It has nothing to do with Benelli, but I just couldn't contain myself. This was at 500 yards with my Savage model 12FVSS Varmint Rifle in 22-250. The rifle is a stock action, trigger, and barrel. I steel bedded the action into a B&C Duramaxx stock. It's topped with a Leupold 6.5-20 X 50mm LRT with Varmint reticle. I use a an Kenton Industries TTC dial on the scope to adjust for elevation based on the given range. These five were fired at 500 yards from a Tackdriver bag on my truck's toolbox. The cross wind was 5-10 from left to right. It took me a few spotters to get it settled in, but I think the group is pretty decent for the distance [ 06-04-2006, 10:00 PM: Message edited by: tucker301 ]

Shot this group today. Not great, but not bad.

mudhen, You may wanna check that profile pic before making it a date Whhuuuuuuughhhh!

Are you sure you want to do this?

You can't post a picture from your desktop. It has to be hosted on an Internet server somwewhere. Go to www.hunt101.com and get a free account.

http://www.ableammo.com/mall/guns_shotgun_benelli_m1_practical.asp

I knowwwwww... but I ain't telling

I think he's including Robert Blake's wife, and since Blake was found innocent, assumes it was an accident

Dude! Where were you when I was spending $1,000 on that Leupold 6-24 for my varmint rig?! Had I known that all I needed was a couple of beads, I coulda saved a ton of cash!

Did you use the search button?

mudhen was going to post that article for us . /hint /hint /hint

It's not a website. It's binary Usenet and the group is alt.binaries.mma. This is what the Internet was before the www showed up and took over. Most people don't even know it still exists, or that it ever did. Once you get it, and really get into it, you won't be able to leave it alone. Unless you already know binary Usenet, you won't be downloading it today. You need a binary reader like Forte Agent, WinPAR & WinRAR to re-assemble the parts, and DivX codecs to play them. I've just given you more of a head start than anyone ever gave me for Usenet. The rest is up to you.

Looks like it's being uploaded to a.b.mma now, so I'll watch it a little later today and see what all this chatter is about. How much did you guys pay to watch this thing?

Sorry to hear about your friend. The report I read said that there was no evidence of forced entry. Is this a rural area where people don't lock their doors? Was it his house or hers? I thought I read that it was her house.

I'd also suggest having someone else shoot the gun. Don't tell them what you're looking for, just ask them to shoot it.