Post by sixshot on Aug 31, 2023 12:43:56 GMT -5
Yesterday a friend drove up from Utah with 4 of his many, many Contender hand guns & wanted me to shoot them. All of them are Bullberry barrels, I got him a job there years ago & he owns a lot of different calibers. He brought a 20 Vartarg, 20 Tactical, 22 rimfire & a 219 Donaldson Wasp. I started out with the 20 Vartarg, he told me to shoot 2 fouling shots & I did, at the 0 at the very bottom of the target, then he wanted me to shoot the top right target first, then the top left, then bottom right & then bottom left.
This is the opposite of what I usually do, I usually start top left & go to the right but that's what he wanted. You can see as the loads got hotter that the groups started to climb, that's normal. They also started to move a bit closer to center. All groups were 3 shot groups at 50 yds, I always test at 50 yds because of wind. I think that's normal for most testing.
Anyway, this gun, like all of the others was extremely accurate, rivaling most rifles. I've owned many TC's over the years that have shot under 1/10" at 50 yds & here was another one that would do the same thing. I'm sure the 219 Donaldson Wasp would have as well but my second shot, using just a 7X scope I wasn't able to see the small orange center for some reason & that shot went went out of the group but I'm sure that gun would have been a "one" holer as well.
Dick
This is the opposite of what I usually do, I usually start top left & go to the right but that's what he wanted. You can see as the loads got hotter that the groups started to climb, that's normal. They also started to move a bit closer to center. All groups were 3 shot groups at 50 yds, I always test at 50 yds because of wind. I think that's normal for most testing.
Anyway, this gun, like all of the others was extremely accurate, rivaling most rifles. I've owned many TC's over the years that have shot under 1/10" at 50 yds & here was another one that would do the same thing. I'm sure the 219 Donaldson Wasp would have as well but my second shot, using just a 7X scope I wasn't able to see the small orange center for some reason & that shot went went out of the group but I'm sure that gun would have been a "one" holer as well.
Dick
