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Offline TMP47

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Maxi Hunters
« on: February 28, 2007, 05:13:37 PM »
I want to shoot these out of my black diamond. 50 cal and pyro rs powder, I was thinking of starting at 70 grains and working up. anyone have any luck with this kind of load or bullets out of a BD. Thanks

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Re: Maxi Hunters
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2007, 08:51:47 AM »
I've shot some 370 gr maxi-hunters and some 385 GP's out of one of my BD's.  Accuracy was OK with the maxi-hunters (about 3" at 100 yds) the Hornady GP bullets shot a little better (2-2.5" @ 100yds).  The load that shot best with both bullets turned out to be 75 grs of pistol pyrodex and a CCI mag #11 cap.

FWIW, a friend of mine who only shoots conicals tried both of those bullets and some no excuses in a BD he owns and could not get acceptible accuracy (he would get 6-8" groups @ 100yds at best).  He had a smith remove the QLA and crown the barrel and his gun now shoots under 2".  I don't recall the powder charge he is using but removing the QLA made a huge difference for him.  I guess I got lucky since mine shot fine with the QLA.