The POWERBELT 338 PLATINUM'S Are Accurate SOB's!
I Always Thought They Might Just Be A Little On The Soft Side!
Me & My Son Shoot The Same SmokePoles!
I've Seen My Son Many A Times Group 3 At 100 Yards & All 3 Are Touching!
Absolutely No Mods To The Guns!
All Fine Tuned By Powder Measurements!
We Switched To The POWERBELT ELR's In 330 Grain Because Of The Better Bullet Coefficient!
We Can Tell You This:
Just About a Week Before Hunting Season My Son Wanted To Go Shoot His SmokePole Again!
We Get To The Range & He Fires 3 Rounds!
Not Bad!
But Not Like He Normally Groups Them!
Fires 3 More & I'm Thinking Something Ain't Right!
We Tear The Gun Down Even Though He'd Just Cleaned It!
On Close Inspection The Good Ole BH 209 Was Cutting On The Breach Plug!
There Wasn't Any REMINGTON Breech Plugs For Sale Anywhere!
And This Was Right When The COVID BS had everything Stirred Up!
I Finally Got Ahold Of A Guy That Does Ignition Upgrades On The Remingtons,He Had A Couple That He'd Took Out Of Brand New Remingtons, The The Owners Were Upgrading To His Set-up!
He Didn't Really Wanna Sell Them But He Did!
Got Them Just A Day Before Hunting Season!
I Pulled My Breech Plug Out & It Wasn't Cut As Bad As My Sons But was Showing The Same Cut!
Makes Sense Because My Son Shoots about 15 More Grains Of BH209 Than I Do!
I Don't Have The Exact Round Count When This Started Happening But My Best Guesstimation is around 450-500 Rounds!
You Can Spend Alot Of F'N Money Fine Tuning SmokePoles!
What I Like Best In A Bullet Is One That Does Alot Of Damage & Almost Goes Clear Through The Other Side,The Hide Catching The Bullet On The Opposite Side Isn't A Bad Thing!
My Original Remington Inline Shoots A 600 Grain Slug!
You Wanna See Damage To The Animal & Your Shoulder?
This Is The Gun For That!