BH209, Montana X-treme CS, Hoppe's #9...help!
02-17-2009, 09:31 AM
#11
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
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RE: BH209, Montana X-treme CS, Hoppe's #9...help!
In my very limited experience shooting Blackhorn there was no doubt in my mind that it heated the barrel more quickly than any other powder. I noticed the warm barrelafter the third shot, something that's never happened with others. I was wiping the BH with one patch, just like I do with T7.
02-17-2009, 10:46 AM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 6,585
RE: BH209, Montana X-treme CS, Hoppe's #9...help!
ORIGINAL: sabotloader
Lee
Ifn you ever get to North Idaho, bring a gun and lets go shooting.... Honestly Lee I shoot at the same rate with T7 as I do with BH. I do not have the patience to wait as long between shots as I am suppose to. I shoot walk back to the truck (10')- patch - measure - assemble - push it down the bore - prime - walk back and shoot again. Theonly thing that changes is no patch with BH, but that is less than a 5 second activity.
Recently in a shooting expediton @ the farm I shot 15 shots? with T7 and I think I only ran a patch 2 times and that was a dry patch. I posted it on here someplace.
I know when I do shoot BH - each time I have noticed the barrel heats quicker and gets hotter and stays hotter longer.... which - who cares if you are hunting - one shot and your are done anyway- it is not big deal. and if you are at the range on a warm day I guess you couldbring a book to read if the barrel heat becomesa problem.
Lee
you suppose that[the hot barrel]is because you can shoot 3 or four times with BH while the guy next to you is trying to get the crud ring out?
Recently in a shooting expediton @ the farm I shot 15 shots? with T7 and I think I only ran a patch 2 times and that was a dry patch. I posted it on here someplace.
I know when I do shoot BH - each time I have noticed the barrel heats quicker and gets hotter and stays hotter longer.... which - who cares if you are hunting - one shot and your are done anyway- it is not big deal. and if you are at the range on a warm day I guess you couldbring a book to read if the barrel heat becomesa problem.
I can never load a second shot with 777 I have to scrub the crud ring out very carefully or I end uo with the ramrod stuck. The sadest part of that is it shot very accurate, of course I never had a barrel heating problem it was always cool by the time I got it scrubed out. Lee
02-17-2009, 11:12 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: 1st State, Delaware
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RE: BH209, Montana X-treme CS, Hoppe's #9...help!
ORIGINAL: Semisane
In my very limited experience shooting Blackhorn there was no doubt in my mind that it heated the barrel more quickly than any other powder. I noticed the warm barrelafter the third shot, something that's never happened with others. I was wiping the BH with one patch, just like I do with T7.
In my very limited experience shooting Blackhorn there was no doubt in my mind that it heated the barrel more quickly than any other powder. I noticed the warm barrelafter the third shot, something that's never happened with others. I was wiping the BH with one patch, just like I do with T7.
02-17-2009, 11:25 AM
#15
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
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RE: BH209, Montana X-treme CS, Hoppe's #9...help!
Rock Fish
It is my understanding that BH is a smokeless - progressive burning powder. It does burn longer in and up the barrel than any of the BP's or T7. You can kinda see it in the it's performance. The powder is a lot more efficient with heavier projectiles than light one + the sabots have to seal the barrel pressure to maintain pressure.
If you look at one of my examples of this I was shooting 120 grains of BH pushing a .458/300 grain bullet and sabot from my Rem 700ML and achieving on average 1950 feet per-second with a 300 grain bullet. I think I might even have achieved a bit more velocity but as most know the Rem 700ML has a leaky BP and nipple - so i was losing some pressure there.
Just my thought...
It is my understanding that BH is a smokeless - progressive burning powder. It does burn longer in and up the barrel than any of the BP's or T7. You can kinda see it in the it's performance. The powder is a lot more efficient with heavier projectiles than light one + the sabots have to seal the barrel pressure to maintain pressure.
If you look at one of my examples of this I was shooting 120 grains of BH pushing a .458/300 grain bullet and sabot from my Rem 700ML and achieving on average 1950 feet per-second with a 300 grain bullet. I think I might even have achieved a bit more velocity but as most know the Rem 700ML has a leaky BP and nipple - so i was losing some pressure there.
Just my thought...
