“WARNING”
Don’t be fooled by the look of a TarHunt 3” NeoTec™ round. The easiest way to recognize the TarHunt 3” NeoTec™ FLC round is just look at the case. The 3” case has a 16MM (high) Nickel/Silver color head. The 2 ¾” NeoTec FLC round has a (shorter) 8MM BRASS colored head.
The 3” NeoTec™ is loaded to consistancely seal off 3” factory chambers, in rifled barrels. “It must be fired in a 3” chamber only”! BECAUSE IF FIRED IN A 2 ¾” CHAMBER; IT CAN NOT FULLY OPEN. SERIOUS INJURY MAY OCCUR TO THE SHOOTER, AND/OR BY STANDERS, and POSSIBLY DESTROY THE GUN!
Terminology: NeoTec — New Technology. FLC — FULL LENGTH Case.
“Full bore size Copper slugs”
The 355gr Copper slug is a premium bore size slug. It is on track to be largest diameter, fastest heavy weight, full expanding (one inch or better) of all the Copper slugs in the industry. While retaining as much as 83% of its original weight.
There is no magic in your gun or the ammo. NOW You must now learn how to make a slug gun shoot well!
This information is the results of 30+ years of shooting thousands of slugs, while doing the R&D for Lightfield Ammo Corp. And form 35 years of making 2000/3000 match grade 30 cal. bullets a year, while competing with them in registered IBS Bench Rest Competition. If the gun you’re now testing has a SAMMI specification barrel it is capable of near state art groups when using the 20ga 3” NeoTec FLC ammo, a good telescope and fired off of a sturdy rench rest.
The bore size 3″ 20ga NeoTec FLC 355gr Copper slug has a unique felt recoil when fired from a bench rest position.
Paragraph #2 a) Due to the large bore diameter of slug gun barrels, in order to build up pressure, it requires a super-fast burning powder. Because of the super-fast burning powder the muzzle will jump straight as the entire gun starts moves backwards from the powder igniting. As the gun moves backwards the angle on the bottom of the butt; sliding on the rear rest makes the muzzle even go higher – faster. All of this starts to happen as the powder builds up enough pressure to push the slug into the rifling on a 9lb gun. There is NOTHING we can do about any of it. Until the slug exits the muzzle; the muzzle continues to move up and the slug continues to twist gun clock wise while the slug is moving thru the barrel. b) Because the NeoTec™ FLC 355gr Copper slug design locks directly into the rifling. A clock wise twisting effect is applied to the entire gun (immediately) as long as the slug is accelerating from ZERO up to 54,000 rpm’s.
The combination effect of items (a & b) can cause a high left flyer (in the 10:30 direction), away from your aiming point, because of a poor gun control. The amount of movement (shot to shot), will also change, as your grip changes, on the gun. Then combine that with any amount of movement the gun is allowed to move from shooting off of a POOR gun rest. The change in impact may go unnoticed by most shooters but a high left flyer, toward 10:30, and is always present to some degree. As much as 3 to 5 inches in both directions; even at 50yds. All of the above explains why good groups are really hard to come by when shooting at 100yds and beyond. SO, was that big group bad ammo, scope or was just consistently poor gun handling?
Think about what will happen when you’re shooting past 100yds or even at 200 yards from a bench rest; while getting ready for your first trophy white tail hunt! Where is the gun really zeroed! Unknowingly, if you keep trying to adjust for that high left point of impact; in reality, you will be setting your POI somewhere low right toward 5:00! Grip the gun with both hands, when firing from the bench, just like you do in the field to KEEP the telescope from hitting you above the eye!
IF A GOOD ZERO IS WHAT YOU WANT
“THEN THIS IS A MUST” A firm two hand (GRIP) style gun control is required while zeroing in a slug gun (off of a good sturdy rest under both the front and rear) of the stock. Note: See the video elsewhere on the TarHunt web site (home page –left side, center) for more information on “Bolt Action Zeroing Techniques” from off of a shooting bench.
GRIP a slug gun the same way you would GRIP a 460 Wby Mag, firing a 600gr bullet! “Not because the recoil is that Sevier”. Because all the TIME the slug spends in the barrel; it is constantly trying to twist the slug gun clockwise while the muzzle is being forced upward at the same time!
All of the movement that is explained in the 2ND paragraph (sections a & b) must be consistancely controlled while the slug is moving thru the barrel!
Rests a slug gun on a hard firm sand bag at both ends. A loosely filled sand bags and/or using you elbows as a tripod to control the back end of the gun; while zeroing a slug gun is IMPOSABLE! You cannot use a Bi-Pod attached to a sling studs on the front end of the stock. A bi-pod tends to flex/bounce as the gun slides back and/or picks up the left leg, (even both legs), all while the slug is in the barrel. That’s why the lighter and slower the slug being used; the better 90% of all slug gun users can shoot.
Effecting Trajectory
Note: Without a consistence amount of grip, with both hands, the amount of muzzle lift; will also change the trajectory (point of impact) down range each and every shot.
Every shooter will hold a slug gun slightly different but ONLY when you become consistence in your GRIP; can you truly zero your slug gun. That’s why another person CANNOT truly zero someone else’s slug gun. If you are consistence with your two handed grip, however you’re doing it; the scope can be adjusted to zero your slug gun. Remember it takes TWO hands while hunting.
Deer Rifles do the same thing but the projectiles are around 1/4 the weight, or less than a slug, and the projectile spends much less time in the barrel! So the high left issue is still there but Greatly Reduced
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment” Unknown. “TarHunt Est. 1987” “In GOD we Trust!” Randy Fritz, pres.