Well the brown truck finally wound it way up my driveway yesterday at 4:45 PM with my new Royale 500 and the Hawke scope.
I put the hawke to the side and quickley mounted my Leupold 4.5x14 VXIII LR SF 30 MM with the Hollands reticle, set up the chrony and saw where it was set at, which was 870 with Kings.
I only had about 40 minutes to shoot before taking the wife and a friend out to dinner, but I took the rilfe out of the stock and turned up the power a half turn and found it shooting at 985 to 995, way too high for what I wanted.
This morning I woke up to the sound of wht can only be discribed as a wek Typhoon pouring rain down here in the rainforst that is known as western Oregon, but I had a new Royale, so what is a guy to do?
Shoot, and shoot I did. I set up the Chrony and after adjustments, got it down to around 890 FPS and fired 5 magazines thre it at 40 yards to see how the shot string was.
5- 11 shot magazines averaged 900,887,898,888,872 which is 45 FPE. At 40 yards they were cutting one ragged hole with a rain induced flyer down and to either the right or left of 4 out of 5 groups. Even at that the groups ere in the 3.4 to 1/2 inch range.
If I have those flyers in the bright sunshine I will be concerned but for now I will blame them on the deluge.
Intial impresions is that it is a big oversized Royale 400. Same easy to adjust superb trigger, same stange magazine to load, a little tighter that my Royale 400 magazine, but I have modded it for funtction.
I will post more when we get the Ark loaded up or the rain stops.
Regards,
Roachcreek
I put the hawke to the side and quickley mounted my Leupold 4.5x14 VXIII LR SF 30 MM with the Hollands reticle, set up the chrony and saw where it was set at, which was 870 with Kings.
I only had about 40 minutes to shoot before taking the wife and a friend out to dinner, but I took the rilfe out of the stock and turned up the power a half turn and found it shooting at 985 to 995, way too high for what I wanted.
This morning I woke up to the sound of wht can only be discribed as a wek Typhoon pouring rain down here in the rainforst that is known as western Oregon, but I had a new Royale, so what is a guy to do?
Shoot, and shoot I did. I set up the Chrony and after adjustments, got it down to around 890 FPS and fired 5 magazines thre it at 40 yards to see how the shot string was.
5- 11 shot magazines averaged 900,887,898,888,872 which is 45 FPE. At 40 yards they were cutting one ragged hole with a rain induced flyer down and to either the right or left of 4 out of 5 groups. Even at that the groups ere in the 3.4 to 1/2 inch range.
If I have those flyers in the bright sunshine I will be concerned but for now I will blame them on the deluge.
Intial impresions is that it is a big oversized Royale 400. Same easy to adjust superb trigger, same stange magazine to load, a little tighter that my Royale 400 magazine, but I have modded it for funtction.
I will post more when we get the Ark loaded up or the rain stops.
Regards,
Roachcreek