Sight ideas for 404 Jeffery

I have a Leupold VX6 1-6 with an illuminated heavy duplex on my 404. I used the illumination even in daylight on my buff. Black reticles on a black buff are hard to pick up quickly (at least for me). The VX6 is a great scope as it is a true 1 power. You can easily shoot with both eyes open if the s__t hits the fan. Personally, I like that option as you may not have enough time to remove the scope to shoot irons!
 
I found a problem with standard crosshairs on a black target, namely black bear at close range made it very difficult to be certain of my aim point. It was a close in shot, 25 yards from a ground blind. Too much magnification at 3 power. The sight picture was full of bear. I ended up shooting the bear too far back into it's liver. I solved this by going to a trijicon 1-4 x 24 dangerous game scope with lighted recticle. It wasn't cheap but well worth every penny when shooting on a black target. I suspect it will work just as well on Mr. dugga boy this upcoming June.
 

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Currently doing a load development on a .404 Jeffrey... it's always surprising to load .423 caliber bullets into a .404 caliber rifle. But we love it when we get 400 Gr North Fork SS bullets to 2300 FPS, those should hammer down on buffalo. Next up are the Cutting Edge solids and then Raptors... load 200 rounds of ammo for the customer and on to the next gun!
To much to political shit, to little Africa :-)
Spending a few years hunting out west then back to Africa!
mebawana wrote on MB_GP42's profile.
Hello. If you haven't already sold this rifle then I will purchase. Please advise. Thank you.
jbirdwell wrote on uplander01's profile.
I doubt you are interested in any trades but I was getting ready to list a Sauer 404 3 barrel set in the 10-12 price range if your interested. It has the 404J, 30-06 and 6.5 Creedmoor barrel. Only the 30-06 had been shot and it has 7 rounds through it as I was working on breaking the barrel in. It also has both the synthetic thumbhole stock and somewhere between grade 3-5 non thumbhole stock

Jaye Birdwell
 
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