hozz57hozz57 wrote:jo191145
Did you shoot any fouling shots after cleaning your bore? I know my rifle likes at least 5 shots through it before its completely settled down.
14.) My dog ate my target!
Be very careful. If you ask me for specifics I'm liable to type your ear off
I'll try to keep this short because my computer constantly crashes.
Had 1/2 lb of BM. Decided to use it for the Postal as i've been having trouble with brass exspansion with Viht. Found out pretty quick that problem is not just with Viht contrary to some previous tests. Did a couple weeks of load development,annealing, reannealing ,super annealing,flame throwers and barbeque pits. Brass is better but not 100%.
I'm also noticing substantially lower velocitys than normal data. Beginning to think my powders are picking up moisture from the humid summer air Might need to store them differently. Hard brass and weak powder could be my problem.
Anyhow I picked two loads. One still under max and painfully slow but USUALLY accurate. One over max, not quite as accurate but seemed to perform nicely at 200yds.
Running out of time and patience I loaded six of each and decided to go with the better of the two.
Cleaned the durn barrel.
Came home from work and fired the first six. Nice one hole group at 100yds. Commenced with the second group and had a flyer on shot three. Stopped all shooting and loaded up 26 of the low charge.
So I had nine shots down the tube when I started on the real target. Two clicks up to adjust my scope for dead center and the first sighter went right in the center of the Bull. Pretty much thought I was styling. Decided to just shoot the #1 target. First shot at 1 was a touch off center. Went back to the sighter and tried again. It shot off center too. No problem let it go I figured.
First target was respectable but not what I was looking for. Getting dark so I just went for it. Target two definately shows what happens when my barrel is not yet ready. The last three started walking away from the bull. After I botched that group I went back for another sighter shot. It went right through the second sighter hole
Group three was OK.
The great thing about this hobby is theres always more to learn. By the way. This is not the first time I've seen this particular tube pull a stunt like that. I just don't have enough expierience using clean powders in it.
I'll make sure its well fouled before my Oct 14 egg shoot. Got a new batch of BM so theres plenty of wrinkles to iron out before then.
Good Luck to all and Congratulations to the winner.