40-90 again

[Don McDowell]

Finally caught a break in the weather and got a chance to check my theory that in the fire formed cases I needed to go up a few grains of powder over the new cases.
Load 94 grain OE 1F,cases primed with rp 9 1/2 , napa rubber cork wad, muzzle loader original dry lubed felt wad, BACO 396415 M cast from 16-1 and wet wrapped in Seth Cole 55w.
Took a few rounds to get on target at 600 as the only distance I had ran this rifle was at 1000 yds, so had to start extrapolating sight settings. But I think it all worked out well.
First group at 600


Then made some elevation correction.

So with that accomplished moved up to the silhouette line. First hit on the ram the swinger thing came apart so only got 1 round on target, did ding him on the front foot before making the elevation change.


So nothing left to do but move the sights to the turkey, got him on the very tip of the leg the first shot, then was able to correct a bit, and looking good.

Then with the ammo box about empty went after the pig. Its round on target is the one near the back, the next on the shoulder, and then whacked him in the armpit.

[mherth]

Finally caught a break in the weather and got a chance to check my theory that in the fire formed cases I needed to go up a few grains of powder over the new cases.
Load 94 grain OE 1F,cases primed with rp 9 1/2 , napa rubber cork wad, muzzle loader original dry lubed felt wad, BACO 396415 M cast from 16-1 and wet wrapped in Seth Cole 55w.
Took a few rounds to get on target at 600 as the only distance I had ran this rifle was at 1000 yds, so had to start extrapolating sight settings. But I think it all worked out well.
First group at 600


Then made some elevation correction.

So with that accomplished moved up to the silhouette line. First hit on the ram the swinger thing came apart so only got 1 round on target, did ding him on the front foot before making the elevation change.


So nothing left to do but move the sights to the turkey, got him on the very tip of the leg the first shot, then was able to correct a bit, and looking good.

Then with the ammo box about empty went after the pig. Its round on target is the one near the back, the next on the shoulder, and then whacked him in the armpit.

Looking good Don! But you already convinced me that rifle's a shooter last year at Alliance.

[Don McDowell]

Yeh I let it down when I took it to Byers. Had a brain fart and loaded the fire formed cases with the same 90 gr. things got ugly real quick.

[Gunner500]

Nice shooting Don, I enjoy the hell out of going to RDNCK's place and shooting his steel animal silhouettes, last outing I made three good solid hits on his 300 yard pig [iirc it's really 325 yards] with my 40-65 and barrel sights, the black bull on the 400 yard gong was blue smoked a couple times too.

Great practice for actual hunting situations.

[Don McDowell]

It's great fun to watch a silhouette ram tip over off the rail thru your barrel sights.

[Gunner500]

LOL, well, I haven't tipped a 500 yard ram over yet, but knocked the crap out of one with my 45-70 and 45-110, both firing 530 gr paper patch bullets over at RDNCKS place, it was/is great fun.