Going to the Range Tomorrow...
Nice! What scope are you running on the Savage? For my birthday this weekend I'll be taking my new Kahr CM9 out for a good breaking in. I have had the thing for a week but my mom has been holding on to it till sunday. It sucked going to do the ffl transfer knowing I couldn't do anything with it for a whole damn week! LOL!
This is the scope on the Savage, it's a another Burris.
http://www.burrisoptics.com/timberline1.html#3x9x It's the 3x9, is very compact, weatherproof, has a long eye relief (important when shooting a rifle in any magnum caliber), is warranteed forever and is made and serviced right here in Colorado. I love the ballistic plex reticle and it comes with a chart as to what cartdrige and grain of bullet = what designated line on the vertical post at what distance. It's mounted in Leupold rings and is (now) rock solid.
The Savage is pretty light rifle (6.5 lbs.) for the .300 Win Mag, hence, it kicks like a mule. First time at the range it knocked the ring base loose so I got it home and re-mounted everything with blue locktite. Next time at the range the action started to work it's way out of the stock. I've got that sorted out (more locktite, lol) so I was really looking forward to getting this sucker dead on. Through all this, the scope itself had zero issues.
Have fun with your Kahr and be safe! My shooting buddy has a Kahr for his main carry piece and he really likes it.
Squeeze off a few rounds for me. I need to get to the range soon myself. MMG
Will do! I'm looking forward to shooting the Blackhawk and getting it sighted in, plus doing some reloading in the future. I had a great little load of 7.2 grains of W231 behind hard cast 255 gr semi-wadcutters that was super accurate in my Vaquero and was realativley light recoiling. I'd guestimate about 900 fps. Just a nice little thumper. I worked up some bear loads too, but I'll save that for later and since this is different firearm, I have to work those up slowly and carefully. They consisted of a 300 gr soft nose jacketed bullet @ about 1300 fps out of a 5.5" barrel. It was a knuckle busting load but the Vaqero handled it no problem. I expect the same from my Blackhawk but it's always wise to carefully work up to those pressures, plus find one that's accurate. I'd rather be at 1250 fps and accurate, than 1300 and not be able to hit a pie plate @ 50 yards.
Sorry, didn't mean to ramble on.... :lol: