Excellent Pyrodex Pellet Groups

[txfireman]

Went to the deer woods this weekend. Had 3-4hours to do some serious dialing in with my Thompson Center Encore 50 cal. I did some shooting with 100 grain (2-pellets) and 150 gr. (3-pellets) loads. I am using the Variflame and got some very consistant results. I tried some Kleenbore primers and was not impressed. They kinda screwed up my groups. Wish I had saved my targets but I left them. The 100 gr. loads grouped well wnd got touching groups with pellets at 100 yards. I then kicked it up a noch just like Emeril and shot with 150 gr. I was shooting 250 gr. Shockwaves. After sighting dead center with the 100 gr. loads, the 150 graain loads impacted almost 8 inches higher. After a few shots, got touching groups 2 inches high at 100 yards dead on the money. No miss fires during the session of about 25 shots. I swabed between shots with one patch lightly damp with TC #13 and a dry patch. I figure 2" high at 100 would be close to dead on at 150 with a200 yard shot at maybe 2-3" low. I'm guessing on that one. Thought about switching to loose powder to fine tune, but after this session....if it ain't broke, why fix it. I'm still gona try the 777 pellets later. Anyway, thanks to Cayugad and all you seasoned veterans who provide such great information and advice to those of us new to the black powder realm.

[cayugad]

That is a heck of a load your shooting and sounds like you have all of this under control. Good luck hunting.

[dmurphy317]

Your trajectory estimates should be real close. My son's Apex using 130gr of pellets and a 250SW hits 2" high at 100 and about 2.5 to 3" low at 200. You should be good for anything up to at least elk size with that load. It still has over 1000fpe out to 225to 250 yards, maybe a little more with the 150gr load.

Good luck with it.