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Specialty Handgun Hunting
My start into LR Handguns...a little story...part 1
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<blockquote data-quote="Dan B" data-source="post: 124914" data-attributes="member: 367"><p>I've been playing single shot handguns for about 10 years. In that time I played w/ a lot of straight wall cartridges in Contender then stepped up to bottleneck rounds. When I did this...killing a g-hog at anything over 100yds was awesome! Then I came upon an ultra accurate .222 Super 14 barrel and topped it with a Burris 3-12x32 scope w/ the Ballistic Plex reticle. Until this I was using a 10" .22 Hornet w/ 4X Tasco.</p><p></p><p>Not long after finding the .222 liked a dose of IMR4198 and 50gr NBT I was knocking over bowling pins at 300yds very consistently. Then one summer evening I was perched over my favorite g-hog field and popped my first "official" LR varmint at 308yds.</p><p></p><p>The field...</p><p></p><p> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/17encore/danb/dansstuff/websize/field.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>The varmint...</p><p></p><p> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/17encore/danb/dansstuff/websize/308yd%20hog%20and%20TC%20222%20Rem.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>After that I was really getting the bite for longer range shooting and my local club extended their range from 300yds to 500yds. Then I quickly discovered that the current Contender platform was falling short of what I wanted to do...</p><p></p><p>...to be continued...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dan B, post: 124914, member: 367"] I've been playing single shot handguns for about 10 years. In that time I played w/ a lot of straight wall cartridges in Contender then stepped up to bottleneck rounds. When I did this...killing a g-hog at anything over 100yds was awesome! Then I came upon an ultra accurate .222 Super 14 barrel and topped it with a Burris 3-12x32 scope w/ the Ballistic Plex reticle. Until this I was using a 10" .22 Hornet w/ 4X Tasco. Not long after finding the .222 liked a dose of IMR4198 and 50gr NBT I was knocking over bowling pins at 300yds very consistently. Then one summer evening I was perched over my favorite g-hog field and popped my first "official" LR varmint at 308yds. The field... [img]http://photos.imageevent.com/17encore/danb/dansstuff/websize/field.JPG[/img] The varmint... [img]http://photos.imageevent.com/17encore/danb/dansstuff/websize/308yd%20hog%20and%20TC%20222%20Rem.JPG[/img] After that I was really getting the bite for longer range shooting and my local club extended their range from 300yds to 500yds. Then I quickly discovered that the current Contender platform was falling short of what I wanted to do... ...to be continued... [/QUOTE]
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