Shooting the Benjamin Rogue
I’ve been shooting and hunting with the Benjamin Rogue for sometime now, and it’s found a place in my big bore gun rack, which houses guns from several manufacturers in .308, .357, .452, .457, and .50 caliber models. I did some early velocity measurements just to get a ballpark estimate on the power generated, but mostly shot the gun for groups under hunting conditions and took it to the field. Recently I was asked to provide some more quantitative information on the gun, so I’ve pulled up few of the targets and velocity measurement that I’ve collected. As most shooters know, this is the first mass produced big-bore manufactured by an American company, though there have been quite a few US semi-production and custom guns, and a number of excellent production guns coming out of Korea. There are also new big bores about to be released by the major European The gun is controlled via an onboard microprocessor that allows various parameters to be optimized for a specific bullet weight. In the current software revision, the bullet weight and the desired power settings of, low, medium, and I shot a few groups at 50 yards and 100 yards with the Nosler eXTREMEs and achieved good results. Above are two targets obtained at these distances, and while not a target gun, all shots sent down range at 50, 75, and 100 yards would have easily been in the kill zone of a coyote. This performance is in line with my otherRead More →