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Geoff McDonald - Woodleigh doesn't like AR2208 in the big calibres, reckons you get pressure spikes with it.

Personally, I have taken his advice and never used it.

I use 2209 and 2213 as the two.

As I have said above, use a slower powder.


Interesting you say the guns factory target was with a scope and you are shooting open sights. Do you have the scope and I wonder if that target is two shots from the right barrel ?

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I have seen a test down at the factory of the different between a scope and non-scope and the difference can be considerable in some cases. Compromise rifles for open sights and scopes can be made, but ideally principally for one setup, the other being the compromise. Usually the scope would be the principal sighting system, with open sights the compromise.

Why anyone would have asked for a scoped .500 NE though???

Nowadays for people with eyesight problems, a Docter type dot point MAY be a possible solution with a single sight picture for people needing glasses, but not needing a scope on a heavy recoiling rifle. A dot point will still possibly need regulation different to open sights though.

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John aka NitroX

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