Stats for Hornady 390 HB-HP 54 cal

[yeoman]

Anyone have a guess at the BC of this (no longer being made) bullet and the FPS using 80 grains of Goex FF?

I was going to use BC of .18 and FPS of 1500 which gives a POI of +1.7 at 50 yds. for a 100 yd. zero. I thought I would use a laser bore sighter to set the factory supplied open sights for initial POA.

[dmurphy317]

Those estimates should be pretty close although the BC may be a bit low. Using your 1500fps and varying the BC up and down from .14 to .22 only makes about a quarter inch difference at 50 yards so if your BC is a little off it won't make that big a difference. Varying the velocity by +/- 150 makes about an inch difference at 50 yards, still not a big difference. Sounds like you should be close enough to start and can fine tune from there.

[yeoman]

dmurphy - Thanks. I'll go with these numbers.

[Johnmorris]

In muzzle loading BC = Big Chunk of lead