Hi guys.
After purchasing this about 2 years ago, i now have the oportunity to hunt White Tail this Fall with it.
I spent a few hours just putting together a few strings and found out a few things. The loads were all .495 Speer balls, thick cotton spacer, .010 lubed batch with the ball. Ended up with 75 grs. of Pyrodex P giving the best pattern. Also found it shot better with a some what dirty bbl.. I would suspect maybe a thicker patch of .015 might be worth a try. I never found any of the patches to examine. Found the thick wads but nothing else. Today i shot thru the Chrony and had an average of 1709 fps. With a spread of 11.54. So the loads seemed very consistent. Thought i might pick up a pack of rolling papers to try a little tighter load. The groups at 50 yds. Were a little over an inch. Any thoughts?
After purchasing this about 2 years ago, i now have the oportunity to hunt White Tail this Fall with it.
I spent a few hours just putting together a few strings and found out a few things. The loads were all .495 Speer balls, thick cotton spacer, .010 lubed batch with the ball. Ended up with 75 grs. of Pyrodex P giving the best pattern. Also found it shot better with a some what dirty bbl.. I would suspect maybe a thicker patch of .015 might be worth a try. I never found any of the patches to examine. Found the thick wads but nothing else. Today i shot thru the Chrony and had an average of 1709 fps. With a spread of 11.54. So the loads seemed very consistent. Thought i might pick up a pack of rolling papers to try a little tighter load. The groups at 50 yds. Were a little over an inch. Any thoughts?