Just another day at the range
Jun 1, 2010 21:54:20 GMT -5
Post by Richard on Jun 1, 2010 21:54:20 GMT -5
Nothing particularly special today, but I'll give my little scenario on each group 
After firing one fouler shot, I used my very reliable 17/56 N-110/N-130 load along with a 200 gr. SST that I had machined the base to make it perfectly flat as opposed to the large bevel Hornady supplies. It reduced the weight to 193.5 grains. I went right to 300 yards and it did not shoot as good as last week. Definitely capable of taking a deer!
#2....Same bullet and load but un-modified base. Again nothing to rave about. However, if you look at the stats for the two groups, you will see the first group av. 2914 fps with 50 fps ES and group two av. 2915 with 44 fps ES.
The third group (if you can call it that) started out with the first shot off the paper. The second shot at a clay bird let me know where to hold. The third shot hit way low (aiming at the second from the left top row bull and using my fourth and last stadia line. Shot 4 went way right and shot 5 was off the paper. These were 300 gr. SST with the bases modified shooting sabot less.
Group 4 started out with promise with shot #1 breaking 3000 fps. This was the load that I blew the sabot with last week. These are the SST's that Edge suggested I modify the base. On shot #2 it appeared that the bullet hit 2" lower and looked like it went thru the target sideways
. The velocity also dropped 100 fps. Since I thought I blew another sabot, I gave up. Later examination when removing our targets proved other wise. The bullet did go straight thru but made rips in the paper that appeared it was side ways 
Group #5 had the makings of my best 100 yard five shot group but..........there was a glitch
Shots 1,2 & 3 measured .265". Then shot #4 dropped around 100 fps and went right. Shot #5 went right back into the group for .641 four shot cluster. 1.9" for all five.
#6 was a little variation..7/62 N-110/N-120. The one really bad shot (which I am not counting) due to the following: I forgot to seat the bullet after using my short starter . This has occurred in the past and has never caused a problem. The powder just does not ignite! But, it mixes it up. And as usual, causes a slow (120 fps slower) shot.......which went out of the group.
#7 was shot with straight N-120 (73 gr.) Just so/so
#8 was sabot less with the 200 FTX , the same 73 gr. as above and did not look good.
No real excuses for the poor performance at 300 yards? The conditions at 7:30 a.m. were excellent. I did not have any bad feelings as to the hold or trigger squeeze?
AS Herman says:
"d**n Muzzle Loaders!
"
Richard
After firing one fouler shot, I used my very reliable 17/56 N-110/N-130 load along with a 200 gr. SST that I had machined the base to make it perfectly flat as opposed to the large bevel Hornady supplies. It reduced the weight to 193.5 grains. I went right to 300 yards and it did not shoot as good as last week. Definitely capable of taking a deer!
#2....Same bullet and load but un-modified base. Again nothing to rave about. However, if you look at the stats for the two groups, you will see the first group av. 2914 fps with 50 fps ES and group two av. 2915 with 44 fps ES.
The third group (if you can call it that) started out with the first shot off the paper. The second shot at a clay bird let me know where to hold. The third shot hit way low (aiming at the second from the left top row bull and using my fourth and last stadia line. Shot 4 went way right and shot 5 was off the paper. These were 300 gr. SST with the bases modified shooting sabot less.
Group 4 started out with promise with shot #1 breaking 3000 fps. This was the load that I blew the sabot with last week. These are the SST's that Edge suggested I modify the base. On shot #2 it appeared that the bullet hit 2" lower and looked like it went thru the target sideways
. The velocity also dropped 100 fps. Since I thought I blew another sabot, I gave up. Later examination when removing our targets proved other wise. The bullet did go straight thru but made rips in the paper that appeared it was side ways 
Group #5 had the makings of my best 100 yard five shot group but..........there was a glitch
Shots 1,2 & 3 measured .265". Then shot #4 dropped around 100 fps and went right. Shot #5 went right back into the group for .641 four shot cluster. 1.9" for all five.#6 was a little variation..7/62 N-110/N-120. The one really bad shot (which I am not counting) due to the following: I forgot to seat the bullet after using my short starter
. This has occurred in the past and has never caused a problem. The powder just does not ignite! But, it mixes it up. And as usual, causes a slow (120 fps slower) shot.......which went out of the group.#7 was shot with straight N-120 (73 gr.) Just so/so
#8 was sabot less with the 200 FTX , the same 73 gr. as above and did not look good.
No real excuses for the poor performance at 300 yards? The conditions at 7:30 a.m. were excellent. I did not have any bad feelings as to the hold or trigger squeeze?
AS Herman says:"d**n Muzzle Loaders!
"Richard
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