Accidental Torture Test...

entoptics

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Thought you all might find this amusing...

Out doing some load workup for my B-in-law's Marlin X7 243 yesterday. Was a slimy, greasy, slushy mess in the field I shoot in. Drove out to set my target, and on the way back I went mindlessly cruising by my shooting nest...

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Doh! :eek:

Fortunately, I hadn't started shooting yet. I normally leave the bolt open for cooling while I go downrange to check my targets, and I certainly wouldn't have put the scope caps back on...

Got her cleaned off and proceeded to shoot without incident. Now I have to pull the action to clean up everything though...
 
I once dropped a .300 win mag on a rock. Took a chunk out of the side of my Nikon prostaff scope. It held zero.

Good slushy mess of a torture test for that action.
 
That target looks awful close for load development o_O

Hello!!?? Obviously, It's a ricochet ladder test. You shoot at a hard object down range and the bullets bounce back through the target allowing you take the reciprocal of the group size and divide it by ES to determine seating depth. Load development 101. OMG, you people kill me...
 
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