The Richard Utting Blog - March Edition
Today was all about dodging snow showers for long enough to test out the new 300WinMag barrel on my RPR, plus some testing of new ammunition in my 6.5x47, 308 and one of my 223s, plus 17HMR zeroing of the perfectly suited 1.5-9x45 Delta.
I like to run a variety of different-priced scopes on my rifles, so my Ballistics Training Days clients can see them in use and demo them. To that end, I mounted a Delta Javelin FFP 4.5-30 on the WinMag, in the excellent ADM Recon one-piece, quick-release mount. I know from running the Javelin on my lapmag for months a few years ago that it handles this amount of recoil while shooting at a mile and beyond without any complaint or problems at all. I’ll also be using the magnificent new Valdada Mini as well.
Next was the load development on the RPR 308 with the trusty IOR Recon
4-28x50 in Tier-One rings
Then, on to zeroing the compact, versatile and mega bright Delta 1.5-9x45 on the T-bolt HMR. I love this little thing: it’s so wide at the bottom end I can see the mod in it at 1.5x and use the IR centre dot almost like a red dot, then up to 9x for distance shots.
Next week it’s all about the new Lapmag barrel on my RPR, with the truly epic new Sightron SVIII 5-40 FFP, and final load tests with the 6.5x47 and 308.
EQUIPMENT
- Delta Javelin FFP 4.5-30
- Valdada Mini
- IOR Recon 4-28x50 FFP Illuminated MP8-X1 0.1 MRAD Rifle Scope
- Delta 1.5-9x45
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