Last year, after replacing the spring on my X-Bolt with a YoDave’s spring (the last couple of posts in
this thread), I only fired a few shots, if even that many. In the winter/spring, I switched around some scopes on a few rifles and today was the day when I finally went to sight in this gun, which now carries an FX-3 6x42 scope. The very first group was better than what I can shoot, lol:
That’s three shots at 100m. The single hole on the left is the first shot after the rifle hasn’t been fired for… 9 months or so. Not too shabby at all, especially given the fact that most decent guns can shoot better than me. After adjusting the scope, the very first shot was right on point:
This has nothing to do with the change in trigger, but I
usually need to shoot a few and turn the turrets in between before I get there. So got lucky there, lol. The next couple of groups were about the same as the one pictured above. These were fired with store-bought Federal Fusion ammunition loaded with 95-grain bullets. I wanted to switch to copper this year, so I bought a few boxes of Federal Premium loaded with TSX 85-grain bullets (all I could find at the time at “reasonable” prices). I couldn’t get these to group as well as the fusion.
That one on the left was my bad - a damn mosquito decided to sting me on the hand right as I was squeezing the trigger and I could feel I twitched and sent a “flyer”. But yeah, the groups with TSX are good enough for hunting, but aren’t as good. I see they are quite a bit faster than the Fusion (just by looking at the data on the boxes). I used to shoot American Whitetail loaded with Interlock bullets out of this rifle and the groups were somewhere in between and closer to Fusion (they also had pretty much identical point of impact with the Fusion). Having said that, I shot out in the woods, sitting position off a tripod:
Off the bench these groups would tighten up, but so would Fusion as well.
No point to the story, really, lol. Maybe it would be nice to reload. All I need is brass, equipment, and a mentor, lol. I have bullets, powder, and primers (so plans are there for the future… maybe).
Edit: Lol. There is a point and why I started writing it in the first place. The trigger makes a difference. This is the original Browning X-Bolt trigger with a YoDave’s spring. Before the spring replacement, the lowest I could adjust it to was about 4 pounds, if I recall correctly; after the spring replacement, it is adjusted to 2.5 pounds of pull and is quite nice (can go a bit lower even if a guy was willing). This same Fusion ammo used to group just like Hornady did, as mentioned above, in the same circumstances.
Edit 2: And whoever thought of using the election sings as a “target holder” was a genius! And thanks to those who mentioned it here after the last election. I only grabbed two Independence signs (everyone else got theirs out right quick and these stuck around for a few days), but will sure act faster next time and grab a few more. A now pro-tip: make sure you place the target so that you do not shoot where these are being held, lol. Otherwise, this happens and you can either fix it or need another sign:
I, of course, didn’t think about it and slapped two targets on it next to each other because… Lazy? Lol.
Sighted in a gun and did some shooting
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