I fired my Kimber Caprivi .458 Lott 17 times from my lead sled with 500gr tsx max loads. I could have never done that prone.
I would hope you wouldn't even try that from prone!
Ted
I fired my Kimber Caprivi .458 Lott 17 times from my lead sled with 500gr tsx max loads. I could have never done that prone.
There are some other side effects to the lead sled. Mine ate two scopes, and is suspect on another, before I sold the lead sled.
My Marlin 45-70 was very accurate and it seemed the heavier the loads, the better it shot. So, I thought the sled would be great to get a powerful accurate load.
But for some reason I never made as good a group with the lead sled, as I had previously made by resting on sand bags.
Could they have been Bushnell scopes, that had been losened up by your 270 already?Can you explain the better performance of the sand bags,or did you have a bad day?
A lot of strange, one of a kind, things happen to people on here.
When four or five people post exactly the same results, it isn't a one of a kind thing.![]()
Notice a trend on brand name of optics they were using?
Looky, you stated the car crash example,however if the sled moves,it would be like the brick wall also moving.
I seem to have opened up a can of worms with what I thought was a fairly innocent question about suitable weights -- and I haven't even used my Christmas present yet! (I managed to pick up some used wheel weights and now I'm trying to track down a source for a suitable bag.)
I'm curious about all these theories of why rifles and scopes are breaking. I'm not convinced by the argument about the butt stop portion of the sled preventing the rifle from recoiling, thereby transferring all the recoil energy to the recoil lug and action screws. This is because, if I'm not mistaken, the rifle can still jump up off the forend rest during recoil, so much of the recoil energy is still allowed to move the rifle.
In any event, I personally do a great deal of shooting in the prone position with a shooting jacket and a sling. Even though I'm no heavyweight, I still weigh more than a lead sled with six bags of shot (more than you would ever use on a Lead Sled). When you are in the prone position, and the rifle is hooked into you with a tight sling, the whole setup is probably far more rigid (and resistant to backward movement) than a lead sled would be with 25 pounds of lead. Yet I haven't heard of any rifles breaking from TR shooting. (On the other hand, nobody shoots elephant rifles that way, either.)
I have personally not seen a significant difference in point of impact between my rifles when shot from prone with a tight sling vs. using a bipod vs. shooting off the bench. For me, the main contributor to point-of-impact shift has been the different eye position from these different shooting positions. Different eye position often results in different sight alignment. The effect of this is minimized with a scope that is properly parallax free, but it is brutal with iron sights.
Once again, I'm only going to be using this device with a .300 Winchester Magnum and smaller.
I'm curious to see the effects and will keep an open mind. But, even though I respect everyone's warnings here, I'm not overly concerned about using my Lead Sled, especially with a heavy .308 target rifle, or even my lightweight Remington 700 Mountain Rifle in .30-06.