some 44-77 questions

[Kurt]

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