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Offline sabotloader

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45 Knight with Bh/T7
« on: June 24, 2009, 05:48:13 PM »
June 24, 5:00am - grabbed the Elite and headed for the gravel piles on Strychnine Creek - needed to beat the heat (although i shouldn't complain after reading Semi's post). 

The mission was to fill in the missing velocity information.  I wanted to shoot the same loads of BH from the gun and chrono those results to add to the spreadsheet I have been building.

The BH loads did just about as I expected, the were all slower velocities than T7 until you reach the upper volumes.  About at the 110 grain mark they started to show they were going to catch up. At the 120 grain load they basically got better than T7-2f and blew T7=3f out of the water...

Here is the completed table, and the table is also updated in the old post...

These loads were all volume loads thrown on site.  Again I have suggested before I know my volume measure is always somewhat light vs actual weight.



Then for humor.... it has often been said "give a monkey a gun and enough bullets he will eventually shoot a good group"   I think I qualify...



And one last thing to get my flim-flamming in (I already forgot the correct word) I would like to add thse to pics...

Working off the tailgate at Strychnine...



And a look at a Lehigh .40/185 grain in a MMP sabot....

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

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Re: 45 Knight with Bh/T7
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2009, 03:57:13 AM »
Thanks sabotloader for the great info.

I was surprised to see the velocities of FFg and FFFg.  From what I have heard over the years,
I was expecting a bigger difference.

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Re: 45 Knight with Bh/T7
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2009, 05:09:34 AM »
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I was surprised to see the velocities of FFg and FFFg.  From what I have heard over the years,
I was expecting a bigger difference.

Me too... But it really does show up with heavier bullets...
Keep shooting muzzleloaders - they are a blast....