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Savage 301 410 Range Results

Started by Dayooper14, January 03, 2021, 08:39:27 PM

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Dayooper14

When everything got locked down this last april my turkey gun was in the camp safe 200 miles away. No turkey ammo for my 20 but I had some lead 6's for my grandfathers 410. Took her out to see if she could throw a decent pattern. Went hunting with 25yds furthest shot but darn did I love carrying it and patterning. Flat out enjoyable.

Got me a Savage 301 to see if we could throw some respectable patterns a bit further. I took 44 shots today. My jaw is still intact and nothings ringing! Would ya look at that, lovely.



I cleaned pretty good before hand and degreased it all but didn't do any "breaking in" short of sighting in the red dot with a few lead 6's. I ran a bore snake through it after every 2 shots and every 4 shots I ran a brush through it. Took shots with each combo at 10, 20, 30 & 40.

I used:
Factory Choke - .388
Nitro Choke - .390
Federal TSS 9's
Nitro T4100 9x10's

Factory Choke, Federal 9:

30yds – 130 hits




40yds – 101 hits



Factory Choke, Nitro 9x10:

30yds – 235 hits



40yds - 160 hits



Nitro Choke, Federal 9:

30yds – 91 hits



40yds – 91 hits



Clear Winner:

Nitro Choke, Nitro 9x10:

30yds – 276 hits



40yds – 203 hits



40yds 2nd time – 202 hits (it was getting kind of late so I put the orange dot on the money spot to help out, moved it for the pick to lower left)



and at 10 & 20:





shatcher


mbarnes1225

wow, Nitro choke and nitro ammo seem to be the ticket.  Just got a 301 at Christmas time and can't wait to try it out!

Vintage

Just picked one up yesterday. Hope it shoots that good.

ShootingABN!

They have one near me. I'm thinking of picking up.

Do you know the ID of the factory choke?

Thanks

Vintage


Turkz39


Turkz39

I have been shooting the Nitro shells for 2 years.  They are unbelievable


superx2


joey46

Perfect!  You sure put the time and $$ into making sure you had a good set up.  Well worth the effort.  I finished my Florida season yesterday using my 301 - .410.  Fun and enjoyable gun to carry and shoot. Congrats.

jmart241


762hunter

Very nice and nice bird

Will have to look into some Nitros

I did not care for the federal, shooting Apex now with mine, still with factory choke.

What shell holder is that you are using?

Meleagris gallopavo

Nice data thread.  Just got my 301 .410 and this info is what I needed.


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