85 grs of pyrodex p enough or too much

corey012778 · 12-09-2007, 04:24 PM

I went to walmart after I got off work, picked up some TC maxihunter 350 gr. I have already setup for my range session for tomarrow. then I got going though my hunting gear and found 3 tubes of powder, 85grs each. Is that enough?

cayugad · 12-09-2007, 04:42 PM

85 grains of powder and any projectile is more then enough for hunting with. The question is what kind of accuracy you get. I have a friend that deer hunts with 70 grains of Pyrodex RS and a maxiball. He shot a large Wisconsin buck at 70 yards one year. That maxiball with just 70 grains of powder blew through that deer and left a hole and blood trail anyone could have followed for the 20 yards it ran.

corey012778 · 12-09-2007, 05:04 PM

I am not really working up any loads for hunting right now. checking scope setting, and have little fun. mainly trying to get my mind off things.

I have been reading threads one conicals and prb. lighter charges with havier bullets. I more worried about it being too much. I am a little wimp about recoil. I do have a recoil pad on my ml. my very first gun was a marlin 12 ga single shot. what a way to break in to shooting.

I am going to do that conical out of sabot test tomarrow, any guess or ideas in your mind on what it is going to happen?

hornady 285gr great plans with a mmp hph 24 sabot push by70 grs of pyrodex p
my guess, god only knows lol

gleason.chapman · 12-09-2007, 05:09 PM

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ORIGINAL: corey012778

I went to walmart after I got off work, picked up some TC maxihunter 350 gr. I have already setup for my range session for tomarrow. then I got going though my hunting gear and found 3 tubes of powder, 85grs each. Is that enough?

I think that is about right, you usually go down with higher weight bullets. Chap Gleason

wabi · 12-09-2007, 05:21 PM

I usually start out testing for accuracywith most .50 cal loads at around 80 grains ffgGoexor PyrodexR/S. Many times I've worked up only to drop back to that load for best accuracy. I feel like that charge behind any projectile from 250 grains up is a serious deer load within reasonable ranges. If I'm expecting to push distances much beyond 100 yards I might jump up to 100 grains of powder, but that's about as high as I usually go. With shots out to 125 yards I've never found it to be too light. The deer always drop if I put the bullet in the "boiler room".

smokepolehall · 12-09-2007, 07:28 PM

As the rest have said 85 grs. of Pyro P is good! I have taken 4 deer this year with 70 grs. of P and its good out to 100 yds. fer me.

Nimrodder · 12-10-2007, 06:03 PM

+1 here. I shoot only 70gr of Swiss 3F with conicals.

corey012778 · 12-10-2007, 08:52 PM

I will be working on after this season, 85grs was too much for me, I got a bad right shoulder, I felt the recoil with a recoil pad on. I think I will try 70 grs of pyrodex p when I work with them next time