screech
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I built a idaho legal hunting weight 416 hubel express this year to try out. Last year I played with a 375 cheytac and I liked it but for some reason I just wasn't super impressed with it. Some days it shot well and other days not so much. I think it may have just been a finicky Barrel. I did like that it was easier to see impacts with it than it was with the 338s though so I figured if 375 was good maybe 416 would be better. I had to keep it under 16lbs if I wanted to hunt with it so the hubel express case was the biggest I could find with a cheytac bolt face to try to run a high bc 416 bullet at decent speed.
Long story short I gathered up a 416 barrel from K&P Barrel company a reamer from Dave Manson and dies and brass from ED Hubel and got it all put together right before hunting season.
After the gun was all put together I did load development on it wich involved shooting 6 rounds to find my pressure and sight it in at the same time. Within those 6 rounds it put 3 rounds into a .3 inch group and was working right towards its top end operating range so I figured good enough. I got the velocity off of it with the 35p and plugged everything into the sig 2400abs. I brought it out to 1200yrds and first round hit about 4 inches left of center on a moa rock, I tried a second round and it stacked it right with the second one. I figured good enough I brought it out to 1850 and it was dead on for elevation just hit about 1.25 moa right for a slight breeze I didn't catch. I brought it out a few more times and it was always spot on for drops so I figured it was good to go for hunting season.
Elk season started Thursday and opening day showed a lot of elk and close to 40 bulls but no easy or big enough ones that made them worth going after. Friday morning we saw probably 20 bulls but also no big ones or no easy ones. Friday afternoon we watched a small bull start working his way towards a road. He got within a half mile of a road and was in the last opening we would have an opportunity to get a shot. Got my sister in law on the gun and dialed in while my brother ran the spotting scope. Turned out it was 1460yrds and no wind. At the shot my brother calls hit, I throw another round in the gun and she smacks him again in the same spot. My brother said it was pretty cool to watch the blood come spitting out of the first entrance hole when the second bullet hit him. After the second shot he bedded down where we could no longer see him. My brother called the hits were a little back so I stayed in case the bull stood back up while my brother and sister in law go to let the heat out of the bull so we could get the mules to it the next day.
On there way up a bull shows up in the opening that my sister in law had just shot at one in. I range it and that part of the opening is 1400yrds. I make the elevation correction and send a bullet down range to see it hit right in front of the bull. He twirls around and stands broadside the other way. I hold right in front of the bull and drop the next round right through his shoulder.
The next day we go in and retrieve the bulls. Both small 5 points but about as easy as a bull gets in my country. I was impressed with the performance of the cutting edge lazers, even with less than optimal shot placement the created enough damage to get an elk to expire quickly. Look forward to deer season
Long story short I gathered up a 416 barrel from K&P Barrel company a reamer from Dave Manson and dies and brass from ED Hubel and got it all put together right before hunting season.
After the gun was all put together I did load development on it wich involved shooting 6 rounds to find my pressure and sight it in at the same time. Within those 6 rounds it put 3 rounds into a .3 inch group and was working right towards its top end operating range so I figured good enough. I got the velocity off of it with the 35p and plugged everything into the sig 2400abs. I brought it out to 1200yrds and first round hit about 4 inches left of center on a moa rock, I tried a second round and it stacked it right with the second one. I figured good enough I brought it out to 1850 and it was dead on for elevation just hit about 1.25 moa right for a slight breeze I didn't catch. I brought it out a few more times and it was always spot on for drops so I figured it was good to go for hunting season.
Elk season started Thursday and opening day showed a lot of elk and close to 40 bulls but no easy or big enough ones that made them worth going after. Friday morning we saw probably 20 bulls but also no big ones or no easy ones. Friday afternoon we watched a small bull start working his way towards a road. He got within a half mile of a road and was in the last opening we would have an opportunity to get a shot. Got my sister in law on the gun and dialed in while my brother ran the spotting scope. Turned out it was 1460yrds and no wind. At the shot my brother calls hit, I throw another round in the gun and she smacks him again in the same spot. My brother said it was pretty cool to watch the blood come spitting out of the first entrance hole when the second bullet hit him. After the second shot he bedded down where we could no longer see him. My brother called the hits were a little back so I stayed in case the bull stood back up while my brother and sister in law go to let the heat out of the bull so we could get the mules to it the next day.
On there way up a bull shows up in the opening that my sister in law had just shot at one in. I range it and that part of the opening is 1400yrds. I make the elevation correction and send a bullet down range to see it hit right in front of the bull. He twirls around and stands broadside the other way. I hold right in front of the bull and drop the next round right through his shoulder.
The next day we go in and retrieve the bulls. Both small 5 points but about as easy as a bull gets in my country. I was impressed with the performance of the cutting edge lazers, even with less than optimal shot placement the created enough damage to get an elk to expire quickly. Look forward to deer season
