.257 Testing

I have been shooting the noe .257 offerings for 5-7 years now.  Accuracy has been absolutly superb with several of NOE’s offerings in the .257 Talon/Dor with a TJ’s liner that I fire laped .  1/2″ groups are not uncommon at all with three different bullets.

The RanchDog  flat nose cast at 84 grains and pushed at 1000 fps is very accurate, and good penetration and the large meplat does a lot of damage.

I sent the RD out to Eric at Hollow point mold service and he did a splendid job with it. It cast all 5  cavities with the Hollow point pins. Love the system!

Many people don’t have the power available to push them at 1000 to 11fps, so I decked another of the same molds, but not HP’s, down to 60 grains and has proven once again to be a very accurate performer.

NOE also has a Spire point offering that is a 110 gr. I decked it to 80 grs, and it is a laser. Many groups at 1/2″ at 100 yards. Love this bullet.
I have not gotten up the courage to have Eric mod the mold for HP’s as it is so ultra accurate.

I have a .25 Rainstorm that I removed the choke and lapped the bbl, and have been sizing NOE RanchDog bullet down to .249 and it is shooting well, squirrel head good out to 50 yards. I re decked the mold down to 50 grains as the RS does’t have the raw power of the Talon/Dor.

I had a .247 21 inch bbl here that came from TJ’s, and was in the Talon/Dor before going to a longer tube. It had the same accuracy as the barrel in it now. Superb!

I sent the bbl. out to Travis at JSAR after removing the very thin section that is on the Talon/Dor bbl’s that is required for the breech slide.

It is now a 19 1/2″ bbl, and will be testing next week as it was shipped end of week from JSAR.

I am looking forward to testing this new combo. More work will have to be done such as machining the .25 holes in the Mag. to accept the larger .257.

It will be an interesting journey, and hopefully a worthwhile one.

I will give results here, and hopefully happy ones. LOL
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