The Great Plains Experiment (As Requested by Underclocked)
10-08-2007, 12:07 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: The Great Plains Experiment (As Requested by Underclocked)
To your list: 
Try the same charge of T7 with an overpowder wad and/or a cornmeal buffer
I think the Pyrodex needs a second chance - three of those shots are quite good, with the first shot flier already explained.
Reduce charges of T7 until best group is obtained.
Come back to UC for further projects. This vicarious testing is cheap!
But I do think the test showed you something very worthwhile about your Lyman with conicals... don't push them too hard and you'll get excellent accuracy. I didn't anticipate 90 grains of T7 still being too much powder, but it would appear to be.
You've got enough evidence there to suggest that some bore-riding, flat-based conicals could be made to shoot nicely as well and I would think evenbetter.
Try the same charge of T7 with an overpowder wad and/or a cornmeal buffer
I think the Pyrodex needs a second chance - three of those shots are quite good, with the first shot flier already explained.
Reduce charges of T7 until best group is obtained.
Come back to UC for further projects.
This vicarious testing is cheap! But I do think the test showed you something very worthwhile about your Lyman with conicals... don't push them too hard and you'll get excellent accuracy. I didn't anticipate 90 grains of T7 still being too much powder, but it would appear to be.
You've got enough evidence there to suggest that some bore-riding, flat-based conicals could be made to shoot nicely as well and I would think evenbetter.
