CVA Optima

[FlintvilleMonster]

I know this has been discussed a million times but im pressed for time and cant go back looking for everyones opinions. What is the best powder and bullets out of the 50 cal Optima? Mine is all over the place! Shooting 150 grains of pellets and 245 n
grain aerotip copper power belts.

 

[HilhamHawk]

Drop it back to 2 pellets and see what happens.

 

[FlintvilleMonster]

Is blackhorn better?

 

[Jcalder]

Is blackhorn better?

It's supposed to be hotter and easier to cleanup. If you have a newer optima you will need to check out the bh breach plug

 

[Hardwoodmaterials]

Anything over 100gr in both of my Optimas will start opening up the groups pretty quickly. One of mine likes 90gr and the other like 100gr. With 100gr I can get 1 inch groups but with 110gr it jumps to 2.5 inch groups. I haven't tried a max load but I figure the groups will progressively get worse. I have never seen one shoot worth a flip with a max load. If cutting back on the powder doesnt help you might try some cheap XTP's from Wal-Mart. They seem to shoot fairly decent out of everything I have tried them in.

 

[stringtalker]

80-100 grains of powder is plenty

 

[knightrider]

150 is a waste back it off

 

[wsm]

My optima likes 100 grains of BH209.

 

[FlintvilleMonster]

Thanks for the help, I will try 100 grains and go from there

 

[mike243]

go to a 295g or higher if you want to shoot more than 100g, my optima pro is deadly with 130g and a 295 ,100g is all I used the last few years with it and 245g and up were accurate

 

[TITANSFAN2104]

Black horn 209 and don't look back

 

[stringtalker]

Black horn 209 and don't look back

Can black horn be cleaned with just water?

 

[UTGrad]

Back off to 100 grains. I had an Optima Pro that shot awful groups with 150 grains of pellets

 

[UTGrad]

Oh also ditch the pellets and go Blackhorn 209 when you have time to go to the range.

 

[gat51]

Yea, too much charge. I went through a similar issue. The more I backed off on the powder the better the group. I agree with the above comment of 80 to 100

 

[UTGrad]

Black horn 209 and don't look back

Can black horn be cleaned with just water?

No... Use Hoppes

 

[FlintvilleMonster]

Shot 100 grains today and shot a 1 1/2 group at 100 yards off of sand bags! Thanks for the help! After season I am going to try Black Horn.

 

[FlintvilleMonster]

The reason I was shooting 150 grains was because the kronus scope that came on the Optima said sight in at 100 yards with 150 grains and 245 grain bullet!

 

[Greg M]

Gotta be the guy who disagrees. This morning at 150 yards with 150 gr Pyrodex, 275 gr Aerotip (black) Powerbelts with a 9 mile per hour crosswind and a pretty cheap Tasco scope.

 

[TN_Greenhead]

I tried several combos out of my optima...100 grains pryodex and 270 PB also with 777 and 250 TC shockwaves..gun could not hit close to the same place twice (in a lead sled) steped up to 150grains prydex and 270 pb was touching the same holes.