44-77 44-90?

[Kurt]

Yes the Gong shoots are fun. I like them better then the creedmoor type matches. But you can still see where the lead splatters dance in the white dot of around it and I judge how I did by looking the names under my final placement.
I used the 19 twist at the Lodi Wis long range matches several times and I used either the GG Brooks postell at 500 plus grains and of all things I used a fireworks powder that was very heavy with fouling LOL and it shot very well till I got out of the pits to shoot the 900 when a misty fog settled in that made seeing the 900 almost impossible even taking the front insert out and unscrewing the eye cup to use a ghost ring to let more light through. Below is a paper target record of my .44-90 Shiloh 19 twist using the original 500 plus grain round nosed profile swaged cup based bullet.
Splatters on iron or holes in paper at a match is just luck of the draw on what conditions are. Accuracy is the final outcome on your standing on the leader boards. Shooting a sub MOA group through paper developing loads I'm sure most of us have done this. I look at accuracy on where I finish at a match paper or iron. When I fail it's not my rifle or spotter.....it's me that failed my rifle and spotter.
Kurt

By the way, That postell is the same bullet you shot with my .44 at the Alliance 1000 yard iron. I have to dig that mould out and see how long that bullet is. It shoots well in the .44-77 also.