Reeder Custom Guns - Sighting in a new rifle

A month ago a bought a weatherby 307 in 300 win mag. Bore sighted the scope and put it away. Last weekend I decided to put it on paper. I have factory ammo but instead decided to shoot up a zip lock baggy of assorted 300Win In the baggy was my old handwritten note that said “not my reloads”. Huh, I didn’t remember. I looked over the ammo. All brass said 300Win. About 40 rounds. The bag held 2 types of bullets. Some short stubby ones (maybe 150’s) and some really long ones. I was wondering if the long ones would stick in the rifling so I tried one. They chambered fine. I know I know I should have pulled the lot but I really wanted to get this gun on paper. My range is 100 yards across my pond. Picked a spot at 40 yards in the water. Bang, perfect hit. Took another shot and it hit 4 ft high. Then far to the left. Then back on target. Checked the scope screws and a crude bore sight (look down barrel and scope). All seemed fine. The next 20 rounds were all over. Some even appeared to double splash in the pond. Never hit my target at 100 yards. Frustrated I got a full sheet of plywood as a target. The next 6 shots missed the plywood. Almost ready to give up I took a closer look at the reloads. The stubby ones were .308. The long ones were .277. Aargh. Somebody was shooting a 7mm/300W. Took out the factory ammo. Guns shoots amazing. I threw away all remaining reloads and destroyed the used brass. Thought my momma raised a smarter son.

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Never shoot somebody else’s handloads. I’m amazed at the number of people who sell reloaded ammunition at gun shows. I have bought some before, but only for the brass. Glad you weren’t injured.

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batch of reloads when we buy out an estate. The last one we got must have had 5000 rounds of reloaded ammo including probably 500 rounds of new reloaded 45-70. Included was a lot of 45 ACP, and 40 S&W. The old guy labeled everything he reloaded with the load and all the other info needed. It hurt to do so but I pulled all of it. It seemed a shame to pull 45 ACP and 40 S&W but by the reloader's data he just wanted to try out some Bullseye and that stopped me from even trying one or two rounds. He mentioned target loads of Bullseye in both 45 and 40 and that was all it took. I hate Bullseye with a passion and won't even keep any of it in my house.
Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s I was still in radio at the radio station across the road from Ft. Campbell and shooting with a Lt friend on post. At that time the 38 Special was a super popular target round with the S&W model 14. Guys were loading 2 to 2.2 grains of bullseye and a 148 grain hollow base 38 special (don't try that as my memory may be a bit off). . I heard of 2 guys who were friends and wanted to get ahead of some of the others by lowering their recoil in the rapid fire event and lowered their load to 1.5. When they pulled the trigger one ruined a model 14, the other a Colt of some sort. The whole topstrap went one way and the rest of it went the other way.
Thru the years I have heard of this happening more than once. I have never seen it but people that know a lot more about reloading than me have told me of this happening.
To me the moral of the story is don't mess with Bullseye.

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A lot of confusion. I’ve used that for getting .22’s on the paper. The bullets do bounce off the surface, but I knew that, as you did too. It’s handy, where safe.

Great for seeing snake loads too. But your angle to the water will make it “look” like you are getting vertical stringing. Level it’s more round of a pattern.

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Sighting in a new rifle

You broke the cardinal rule

Amen

That is hard to do .It's not unusual to get a

The water shooting, a good trick. Saved