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Offline sabotloader

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@ the Farm with a Knight-Lehigh-BH and Speer
« on: May 21, 2010, 02:37:59 PM »
Well, I finally was able to get out and do some more shooting with the Knight Extreme. I had conducted an initial test of the Knight with a Lehigh Gen II plug installed in April and wanted to follow that up with a 'prove it' test. I have gone back to work so finding the time to get it done has been a problem, but the time presented itself today - so I headed to the farm this afternoon.

The April test really was ran to test the cleanliness of the new Lehigh Generation II plug. That issue is no longer and issue for myself so not going to speak to much about how clean the plug is, but it sure is nice.

The testing I was trying to conduct is how well the plug and vent liner work with BH. In my mind these two test confirm what i thought I already knew. The 'Vent Liner' is the key and the 'Plug' is clean in all of my Knights. For my tests to be complete I still need to shoot in some really cold weather and that will have to wait for awhile. Probably late December...

What I was trying to confirm is that different primers do not have all that much of an effect on velocities created or instant ignition. There certainly are dofferences ion velocities, but again I am not weighing charges - I am using a powder volumn measure and dropping that into the bore.

Here are the targets and the information... This is today's target



This is the target from April....

Keep shooting muzzleloaders - they are a blast....

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Re: @ the Farm with a Knight-Lehigh-BH and Speer
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 04:29:11 PM »
I got out to the range today to try the Lehigh conversions in my Knight 45 & 50... I only  used Win 209 primers, but used a variety of different bullets.. with Blackhorn 209..... this was my first time shooting the conversion kits and Blackhorn 209 as well... I was greatly pleased with both products... only shot@ 100 yds and pulled targets to later shoot @ 200... can't say enough about the Lehigh conversion... what a difference in shooting and cleaning!   I had several three shot groups that show promise... thinking the 200 yds will differentiate them  pretty quick...  one very pleasing group was shot with 330 Gould HP(I cast) should make a good deer load for 100 yd range... Lehigh Muzzleloader bullets also shot exceptionally well with groups under 1.25 without any adjusting of powder to fine tune...


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