some 44-77 questions

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Sam.

At at 10.5# rifle weight it sounds like you have a # 2.5 or a #3 weight barrel that will have a little more harmonic vibration then a #4 or #5 heavy weight that will make barrel placement a little more critical on the sticks. My 10# .44-77 has a light 30" barrel and it is a little finicky with barrel placement on the sticks or I get some vertical. With mine it makes no difference where I place the barrel on the sticks as long as it is in the same spot and with the sight setting that was noted at this spot. Also a 460 gr bullet and a 485 gr I mostly use I see a difference on the amount of vertical hits with differences in the amount of vertical.
I don't see vertical that is from very low to over the top of a 500 yard target as you said but it shows that there is some with barrel placement on the sticks.
Also a 10 O-clock and 2 O-Clock wind shift makes more elevation changes then a straight on wind from what I have noticed with my .44's more so when the velocity increases between the .44-77 and the .44-90 bn.
Kurt

The barrel was ordered as a 3 1/2 weight from Green Mountain and its screwed into a pedrosoli rolling block action. It look nice and feels nice. I will keep in mind stick placement in the future. A wrap of tape will keep things going back to the same place.
The load was just bringing the powder up to where the base of the bullet would be and the compression was just the thickness of the wad. But all in all, it did show that there is good potiental for the rifle to shoot well. Next time out I will throw some Swiss in it and see what happens along with an under powder/over primer wad.
Some of my early shooting did not go all that well. When your second or third shot draws blood, that just kind of takes all the fun out of things.
Down side is here in the north east, the weather is starting to turn more seasional, as in cold and wet so time to clean things up and pack them away for the winter and work on having a good supply of goodies ready for the spring.
Sam