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Ernie Bishop
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Range Time For Hunting - Two Pachmayr Dominator's (25 Creed and 6.5 Creed) Confirming Drops
Ernie Bishop
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On Friday I went out to Mac's Gunworks to zero and get some drops out to 500 yards with my two Pachmayr Dominators. These both have long eye pistol scopes on them with external turrets, otherwise shooting at the distances that I did would be much more difficult.
With a 1911 frame and trigger, and not being able to use a bi-pod, makes the Dominator system a little more challenging to use. I used a front rest and a Hollands small field bag under the pistol grip.
The Dom on the left is a 6.5 Creedmoor with a 15" barrel. Scope is the Leupold 2.5-8 EER. The drops on the grip are for my 140 A-Max load, which I did not use yesterday.
The one on the right is a 25 Creedmoor, and it has a 14" barrel and a Harrel brake. The barrel is heavier also. Once new trigger/hammer parts were put in the trigger pull is great for a 1911. Initially, the trigger pull was quite heavy, and being the trigger snob that I am, I didn't like it-Now I love it!
It shoots the 110 grain Nosler Accubonds at 2726 fps.
I like the classic looks of the 6.5, but the 25 has become my favorite. This is the first time I have used the new Weaver 2-6 pistol scope. You can zero these turrets easily, and so far the adjustment have been spot on to meet me needs. I like the eye relief better on the Weaver than the Leupold on the Dominator at least.
I knew the velocity with the 110's, so I stated with the 25.
I had to re-zero, since I had put a new scope on it. I got lucky, and within 3-shots I was off to shooting steel.
I started at 300 yards on a 10" piece of steel, and I didn't hold or dial for wind. I shot right. Either the wind was doing something weird then or I pushed the shot right with some bad fundamentals. I am not really sure. With all the further shots, from that time forward, I had to deal with an ever increasing quartering tail wind to full value wind from right to left.
I was just checking to make sure my drops were solid.
Then I went out to 500 yards.
Hopefully you have seen enough proof from Zee that you don't have to have a lot of magnification to connect at distances further than 500 yards.
If I had my druthers though, I would like to have more than 6x, but I was happy with the shots at 500.
Took some pics, videos, and painted targets.
The wind continued to get faster with some gusting-Notice the swinging steel targets as an indicator!
Time to shoot the 6.5 Creed Dominator.
I
tried some Hornady factory ammo that used the 120 grain GMX bullet that I
traded for during WY-SHOT.
After a 100 yards zero, I went to the 10 inch plate at 300
yards, and kept subtracting my guesstimate on the velocity until the drops got
close.Then, I went to 500 yards where there is a large target, so
I could get my wind figured out and it be able to see if my vertical was close. I had to drop my MV more than I thought I would. Notice the swinging plates at 300 and 400 yards.
I shot at 300, 500, and then back to 400 yards
The wind wasn't ideal, but the factory ammo shot pretty good.
I am looking forward to hunting in October
Ernie
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BTW talk about stars aligning. The guy who’s currently living in the house we’re signing a lease on is a world class hunter and fisherman. He showed me one of his trophies that he had in the house and it’s a Canadian buck he took in Saskatchewan. 300lbs live weight, 192 non-typical B&C!!! It’s in the book, roughly 16 points I counted quickly including a couple of dropped times. The rest of his stuff is in storage, including a 700 lb Siberian Brown bear 😱
Anyway he offered to take me under his wing and show me all the local places to fly fish, he just snagged a 24” wild caught rainbow and a 22” Brown in two casts in one of his honey holes… but I digress…
He's taking me to his local gun range where they have, get this, a ONE THOUSAND YARD RANGE!!!!! I’ll be getting a membership as soon as we move in 😎
I was so giddy while we were talking my knees got weak! 🤣🤣🤣
When do you start the specialty pistol build?😎😇⚡️💥
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Zee is pretty smart with the wait and see approach to see how your collection evolves, into his
Grand kids, 1K ranges, hunting, you are in big trouble, all of us enabling.
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