Tonibaruch
32 Cal.
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2009
- Messages
- 37
- Reaction score
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I bought a can of fffg, I wanted the ffg but only the fffg was available, so I remain stuck with the granulation equivalent to the Swiss N°2 which I shot until now. All in all a good thing for comparison.
Visual impression: extremely good. Shiny black, I couldn't distinguish (based on memory) from the swiss.
Weight impression: my volume measures produce doses much lighter in weight than they are supposed to be. I don't remember how swiss powder performs on this side. I dosed for volume the same doses I'm used with the swiss, though.
Shooting impression: once I discarded my new experiments with patches lubed with beeswax+oliveoil (impression is they are TOO lubed and the effect is like shooting with a smoothbore) and came back to the old 0.445 ball, with 0.25mm patch lubed with ballistol+water, and felt again the right resistance at loading, balls flew at the right points. Recoil is softer than with the Swiss, but the (possible) loss in power doesn't impact on accuracy. I made some very good targets at the end, both with round ball and 310g minie (still to find the right load here). On round ball at 50meters I shoot very light loads, 30g or slightly less. With more powder my fast twist start to lose accuracy, and I save on the shoulder pain. With minie I am starting with 40-45 g. Let's see in the next sessions if more powder will produce even better accuracy.
Nose impression: pow-ex smoke seems not to have the strong sulfure smell of Swiss, which has a very strong smoke which takes at the throat. At least it did not have that strenght today, in a very humid rainy day. I also made the odd thing to blow in the nipple at a certain point. When happened with Swiss i remained disgusted for one entire day, today I survived. Maybe Pow-ex really have less sulfure taste...
Flames impression: with swiss I didn't ever noticed the fly of burning debris I noticed today. The lighting condition was quite new, though. Very few light in a very dark rainy day, could be this but I am inclined to think that Pow-ex has this richness of burning debris, more than Swiss.
All in all, if this really is a powder close to Goex (on the label it says it is "american style powder"), I think you guys on the other side of the pond are shooting a very good powder, maybe a tad softer than the Swiss which is the best seller here, a bit different but pleasant to shoot and with an high perceived quality.
My two eurocents
Visual impression: extremely good. Shiny black, I couldn't distinguish (based on memory) from the swiss.
Weight impression: my volume measures produce doses much lighter in weight than they are supposed to be. I don't remember how swiss powder performs on this side. I dosed for volume the same doses I'm used with the swiss, though.
Shooting impression: once I discarded my new experiments with patches lubed with beeswax+oliveoil (impression is they are TOO lubed and the effect is like shooting with a smoothbore) and came back to the old 0.445 ball, with 0.25mm patch lubed with ballistol+water, and felt again the right resistance at loading, balls flew at the right points. Recoil is softer than with the Swiss, but the (possible) loss in power doesn't impact on accuracy. I made some very good targets at the end, both with round ball and 310g minie (still to find the right load here). On round ball at 50meters I shoot very light loads, 30g or slightly less. With more powder my fast twist start to lose accuracy, and I save on the shoulder pain. With minie I am starting with 40-45 g. Let's see in the next sessions if more powder will produce even better accuracy.
Nose impression: pow-ex smoke seems not to have the strong sulfure smell of Swiss, which has a very strong smoke which takes at the throat. At least it did not have that strenght today, in a very humid rainy day. I also made the odd thing to blow in the nipple at a certain point. When happened with Swiss i remained disgusted for one entire day, today I survived. Maybe Pow-ex really have less sulfure taste...
Flames impression: with swiss I didn't ever noticed the fly of burning debris I noticed today. The lighting condition was quite new, though. Very few light in a very dark rainy day, could be this but I am inclined to think that Pow-ex has this richness of burning debris, more than Swiss.
All in all, if this really is a powder close to Goex (on the label it says it is "american style powder"), I think you guys on the other side of the pond are shooting a very good powder, maybe a tad softer than the Swiss which is the best seller here, a bit different but pleasant to shoot and with an high perceived quality.
My two eurocents