BCRider
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Last time out with my new under hammer rifle was less than stellar performance wise. I was shooting it using 50gns of 3f behind a .490 round ball.
Two days ago I was at another fun shoot and based on what someone in my group had said last time I was using a .30-06 casing as a measure which was holding 62'ish grains of 3f. With this and no other change the rifle was completely converted and it was like shooting a laser. I got 4 misses out of 25 targets. And two of those were due to holding the sights slightly low and high trying to figure out where it was hitting. The other two were from shooting at silly small targets out just way too far away. There's always a couple of those, eh?
So if you find that your smoke stick doesn't seem to be as accurate as you think it should be try playing with the amount of powder. It really does make a difference.
Oh, I was so taken with this that I almost felt like hugging the rifle all evening....
Two of the "targets" on our novelty black powder trail were also hit for the very first time ever. Namely the golf balls on short dowels and the plastic forks sticking out the sides of a vertical 2x4. Both of these are about 8 yards away and both have frustrated me for the previous dozen or so times through that trail since I started shooting BP guns. And suddenly I got 'em BOTH. The guys said the golf ball took off up the hill like it was a 300 yard drive....
And the fork! What can I say? So few people hit them that the same forks have been there for about 3 years now. But after last Saturday there's one less....
Two days ago I was at another fun shoot and based on what someone in my group had said last time I was using a .30-06 casing as a measure which was holding 62'ish grains of 3f. With this and no other change the rifle was completely converted and it was like shooting a laser. I got 4 misses out of 25 targets. And two of those were due to holding the sights slightly low and high trying to figure out where it was hitting. The other two were from shooting at silly small targets out just way too far away. There's always a couple of those, eh?
So if you find that your smoke stick doesn't seem to be as accurate as you think it should be try playing with the amount of powder. It really does make a difference.
Oh, I was so taken with this that I almost felt like hugging the rifle all evening....
Two of the "targets" on our novelty black powder trail were also hit for the very first time ever. Namely the golf balls on short dowels and the plastic forks sticking out the sides of a vertical 2x4. Both of these are about 8 yards away and both have frustrated me for the previous dozen or so times through that trail since I started shooting BP guns. And suddenly I got 'em BOTH. The guys said the golf ball took off up the hill like it was a 300 yard drive....
And the fork! What can I say? So few people hit them that the same forks have been there for about 3 years now. But after last Saturday there's one less....