Thread: Lever guns - What do ya reckon?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

if your shooting between 1-2" at a hundred thats still only 2-4" at 200...you simply need to know your drop at that range.....and thats not hard to find out with a bit of carboard box.....PROBABLY will be a matter of aiming for top of shoulder and projectile will end up lower in the chest.... if yo uhave confidence that you KNOW where its going..no worries at all.

Thanks MD, poor choice of words on my part with ballistics, what I really meant was knock down power, looking at the charts etc it looked like 150m max from memory but given the max line of sight where I hunt is so short I was just happy to consider 100m as the max range as I’d sighted it in to be bang at that range. When I first got it I’d hoped the Leverevolution ammo would stretch this but as I said it throws the 160gn around the target with gay abandon and I’ve been warned off the 140s as “barrel burners” (his words not mine) what are other folks experiences with them?
I’m happy to play conservative with it and crack out the Tikka if going somewhere where longer shots are on the cards

FP