douglas duncan
36 Cal.
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first off with this rifle, Lyman trades with GM 32" 1-70 twist. I am using a 530. Rb
I could put all the shots in a 2-3" circle using pyrodex rs with 80 grns. I posted these awhile back and was told I could tighten this up with goex black powder.
So I go out any buy some goex to use. yes my patterns tighten up still using 80 grns of powder.
here are a couple of the targets. these are at 50 yards.
but not until I went and weighed all my balls that I had. when I switched to the goex my groups opened up and i could not get them to close up after trying different powder charges. so I went home and weighed them all out.
I am shooting the balls that fall in between 225- 225.9 and 226 - 226.9 they both seem to shoot the same for the most part.
It seems that between 80-85 grns all my shots will hit pretty much the same. expect when I get out to a 100 yards then they will open way up.
my patches seem to be blowing out also. this never happened with the pyrodex either. these are the same patches i used before which looked great before switching powders.
here are some 100 yards targets to me this is not good enough.
the black dots are the holes which i covered up so I can stll use the target. only one shot each in the black on both targets.
before the switching over to goex I could put them inside a 3" circle at 100 yards now it looks more like a 6+" group.
some of the things that I have been doing
tried swabbing between every shot which helps
various powder charges
different patch lubes, moose juice which is working better than the moose snot
tried and OPW with no effects to accuracy
I have not tried a thinner patch with the OPW yet something I will try next time out. (Tuesday)
is the day.
Can someone give me some ideas?
I could put all the shots in a 2-3" circle using pyrodex rs with 80 grns. I posted these awhile back and was told I could tighten this up with goex black powder.
So I go out any buy some goex to use. yes my patterns tighten up still using 80 grns of powder.
here are a couple of the targets. these are at 50 yards.
but not until I went and weighed all my balls that I had. when I switched to the goex my groups opened up and i could not get them to close up after trying different powder charges. so I went home and weighed them all out.
I am shooting the balls that fall in between 225- 225.9 and 226 - 226.9 they both seem to shoot the same for the most part.
It seems that between 80-85 grns all my shots will hit pretty much the same. expect when I get out to a 100 yards then they will open way up.
my patches seem to be blowing out also. this never happened with the pyrodex either. these are the same patches i used before which looked great before switching powders.
here are some 100 yards targets to me this is not good enough.
the black dots are the holes which i covered up so I can stll use the target. only one shot each in the black on both targets.
before the switching over to goex I could put them inside a 3" circle at 100 yards now it looks more like a 6+" group.
some of the things that I have been doing
tried swabbing between every shot which helps
various powder charges
different patch lubes, moose juice which is working better than the moose snot
tried and OPW with no effects to accuracy
I have not tried a thinner patch with the OPW yet something I will try next time out. (Tuesday)
is the day.
Can someone give me some ideas?