ljnowell
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As a bullseye shooter I generally look for the lightest load that still provides the accuracy I'm looking for. Consequently, I tend to load hotter loads for 50 yards as it's slow fire and recoil recovery isn't a big deal. I'm looking for true accuracy. In that regard I'm loading 4.6 grains of WST under a 200 grain lead bullet.
For timed and rapid fire I've been working down with WST looking for that sweet spot. I generally run a 12lb recoil spring in my bullseye 1911s, as I do shoot warmer slow fire loads than many others. I have been shooting 4.2 grains of WST at the 25 yard line and performance has been more than acceptable, so naturally, I mess with a good thing.
I loaded up 100 rounds of 3.9 grains of WST(this charge weight is below published data and should be approached with caution watching for squibs)I fired 50 at 50 yards and 50 at 25 yards from two different guns(25 each gun each distance), a Springfield loaded and a sig GSR. Both guns are proven bullseye accurate and equipped with quality red dots(burris fast fire and matchdot). The results were, how do you say, unimpressive.
At fifty yards they were literally all over the paper. The majority were a foot to 16" low and a horizontal spread of nearly the whole paper target, several not scoring. There was also a few that went way off. Like on the cardboard backer.
At 25 yards I could hold the 8-9-10 ring with 75% of the shots, however the the remaining shots were way off. Like 6 ring and 5 ring off. Considering these were shot from a rest, that's horrible. I can put 10x up at 25 from a rest with either firearm.
Another interesting tidbit is that WST has repeatedly given me better accuracy with SWC than RNFP. The same RNFP that performs well at 50 with AA#2 performs poorly with WST. Just thought I would toss that out too.
For timed and rapid fire I've been working down with WST looking for that sweet spot. I generally run a 12lb recoil spring in my bullseye 1911s, as I do shoot warmer slow fire loads than many others. I have been shooting 4.2 grains of WST at the 25 yard line and performance has been more than acceptable, so naturally, I mess with a good thing.
I loaded up 100 rounds of 3.9 grains of WST(this charge weight is below published data and should be approached with caution watching for squibs)I fired 50 at 50 yards and 50 at 25 yards from two different guns(25 each gun each distance), a Springfield loaded and a sig GSR. Both guns are proven bullseye accurate and equipped with quality red dots(burris fast fire and matchdot). The results were, how do you say, unimpressive.
At fifty yards they were literally all over the paper. The majority were a foot to 16" low and a horizontal spread of nearly the whole paper target, several not scoring. There was also a few that went way off. Like on the cardboard backer.
At 25 yards I could hold the 8-9-10 ring with 75% of the shots, however the the remaining shots were way off. Like 6 ring and 5 ring off. Considering these were shot from a rest, that's horrible. I can put 10x up at 25 from a rest with either firearm.
Another interesting tidbit is that WST has repeatedly given me better accuracy with SWC than RNFP. The same RNFP that performs well at 50 with AA#2 performs poorly with WST. Just thought I would toss that out too.
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