Good news and bad.
The good news is, the o ring has definitely made my breech spotless, wow! Never seen this before ever. this is after four shots:
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the bad news is, I have two bullets left from this lot number and don’t have an award winner. First and third shot are level with the bull and 1920 FPS and 1880 FPS. Second shot did not trigger my chrono and hit 3.5” low. There was no cleaning between first and second shot and then I cleaned for my third shot.
my fourth shot is also pretty low and chrono said 1840 FPS.
Any way. It ain’t a pretty group. But I have two bullets and two days to hunt (muzzleloader) this season, in a thick creek bottom from a stand. 3.5 MOA is barely there but doable, I will hold slightly high and hopefully get to fire one of my last two bullets (have only shot a deer in muzzleloader 2 out of 4 years trying). I think a 3.5 MOA rifle is ethically huntable for a 50-75 yard shot like I’ll have and that’s my plan. My second part of my plan is that the day I unload after muzzleloader, sending the breeCh plug out for a BH209 flash hole modification. If I can’t get it to 2 MOA or fewer with BH209 I will know I need to go on new rifle search this spring.
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