Okay since I’m doing this from my phone and don’t have my glasses I’ll keep it brief.
Unfortunately, I had one of those days I needed to get to the field to decompress and I took the opportunity to do some serious long distance shots for the Precision Ballistic 177 slugs out of the UK with my buddy’s (vitals2k) Brocock Compatto XR Sniper.
I drove out to my permission and the conditions were too ideal for December in Idaho, 50s / 14 C and no real wind and no clouds in sky. (We seriously need water aka snow).
I got the Brocock out and did some chrony work a quick sight in at 30 yards with the Mako slugs. Slugs specs 177 at 10.5 grains.
The chrony data showed 805-810 fps = 15ish FPE from the FAC rated Brocock Compatto. I will first state everything I say here will be fed back to Geoff at Percion Ballistics in the UK, maker of the Mako slugs. I sent 100 slugs out to other people for the same feedback.
First the slugs in the Brocock magazine are a bit loose so an option for an OD of 001 larger might be good. I’m not saying this affects accuracy but it is not the best for the old style Brocock magazine. I did have a feeding issue 2 for 25 shots.
Now for the juicy part. Today there were doves and some pigeons, though they are weary as hell, all results with Brocock.
I did the walk and stock, and my bad I didn’t really get to know the slug before I headed to field. With what I gave away for demoing (150) I needed to make the most of what I had left (100).
Total today was 4 collared doves and two pigeons. 3 or which were not recoverable because they were stuck on roofs 15 ft high.
The longest shot was 65-70 yards and the collared dove just dropped with the average 50-55 yards with and a lots of blood, definitely more than from the BHE.
Unfortunately, I had one of those days I needed to get to the field to decompress and I took the opportunity to do some serious long distance shots for the Precision Ballistic 177 slugs out of the UK with my buddy’s (vitals2k) Brocock Compatto XR Sniper.
I drove out to my permission and the conditions were too ideal for December in Idaho, 50s / 14 C and no real wind and no clouds in sky. (We seriously need water aka snow).
I got the Brocock out and did some chrony work a quick sight in at 30 yards with the Mako slugs. Slugs specs 177 at 10.5 grains.
The chrony data showed 805-810 fps = 15ish FPE from the FAC rated Brocock Compatto. I will first state everything I say here will be fed back to Geoff at Percion Ballistics in the UK, maker of the Mako slugs. I sent 100 slugs out to other people for the same feedback.
First the slugs in the Brocock magazine are a bit loose so an option for an OD of 001 larger might be good. I’m not saying this affects accuracy but it is not the best for the old style Brocock magazine. I did have a feeding issue 2 for 25 shots.
Now for the juicy part. Today there were doves and some pigeons, though they are weary as hell, all results with Brocock.
I did the walk and stock, and my bad I didn’t really get to know the slug before I headed to field. With what I gave away for demoing (150) I needed to make the most of what I had left (100).
Total today was 4 collared doves and two pigeons. 3 or which were not recoverable because they were stuck on roofs 15 ft high.
The longest shot was 65-70 yards and the collared dove just dropped with the average 50-55 yards with and a lots of blood, definitely more than from the BHE.
Though ideal conditions, I will say for a 177 to take a dove out a 60ish plus yards with a clean pass through at 15 FPE is impressive, at least to me. The Makos actually are running 2 FPE less than the Hades, but seem more devastating. The first dove I killed, and was unable to recover was at 60 yards according to the range finder, and it just died, no flopping, it looked like when my 25 cal hits a sparrow, DEAD.
