44-77 Sharps paper patched load

[Eric Johanen]

Just finishing loading for the last gong match of our season in Merrill this weekend. I'll be running my 44-77 Shiloh with the open barrel sights and loaded with 74 grains of 2 fg KIK with the Brook's 440 grain Medford style bullet. I'll shoot prone and see if I can get the 500 yard zero on those critter's. Have pretty good zero for 200, 300 and 400 yards. I'll try blow tubing again and if that does not work, wiping. Only change I made in the load is a very slight more amount of compression to help with patch interference with the fouled bore. I'm also bringing a few more of the Brook's 480 grain RN bullets that Kurt was kind enough to send me for another test outing. Should be great fun! I'll post results next week.