Optima - Pellets - Powerbelt day

[Buckskins & Black Powder]

Alright got the pics resized and up.

Optima - 100 yards - 100gr Pyrodex Pellets - 270gr Platinum Powerbelt. Didn't like the 270s at all.


Next up i changed to the 300gr Platinum Powerbelt with 100gr Pyrodex Pellets.
For the life of me, i dont know which hole shot #3 went into. They impacted surprisingly low.


Just to make sure it wasnt a  fluke, i took a 5 shot group. All this shooting and ZERO swabbing.


No mistake about that!  100gr Pyrodex Pellets and the 300gr PB Platinum is a winner for this rifle.

I had to switch to the smaller dot as the Konus Pro 3-10x44 has super fine cross hairs. That orange dot i think is maybe 1/4" in diameter.

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After taking the rifle home to clean out, It cleaned up with 2 patches when using muzzle foam. Followed up with a single patch of bore scrubber just  to clean it better and went out again with the 295gr powerbelt hollow points and 100gr Pyrodex Pellets.

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Switched muzzle loaders and brought out my nephews Wolf with 100gr blackhorn209, cci 209m primers and the 295gr Powerbelt hollow points.
 If you can make it out, thats shot #1 though this $55 Bushnell 3-9x40 scope @ 100 yards.



That load kicks like a mule though so one of these days i am going to zero it in again with its normal 90gr load. Its amazing how much less it kicks with 10 grains less BH209.

[tscott]

Good info. I get similar great accuracy from a variety of powerbelts. Mostly in the 90 - 100gr powder range (777). I am surprised by some reports of poor performance on game.
Of the 11 whitetail bucks I have shot in recent years, this year's 7 point went the furthest. He snowplowed 20 yards, after a chosen neck shot. Could poor performance reports, be the result of poor shot placement?

[Buckskins & Black Powder]

 I swear i had the cross hairs right behind the shoulder!

Yeah? Then whys the shot in the gut?

I see that a lot and so yes, shot placement is key to a quick kill.  I never had any issues with performance since 2002 when i first started using them.

Animals just act differently from one to the other.

[tcencore3006]

I too used 295 with 100 grains of pyrodex.  I can plink the bullseye at 100 yards everytime.  I've tried other things but like the Powerbelts the best.

[tcencore3006]

Can your gun handle magnum loads?  You think 100 grains kicks, just for kicks and giggles you ought to try 150 grains.  I know some guys that swear by it.  I myself feel it is a waste of powder and I am not going to lie.  I flinch when I shoot something that kicks that hard.