Chronographing

[MountainDevil54]

After working with the Loose Pyrodex and the Pellets. Im going to take the Cabelas Hawken out side tomorrow and give her a try with the 320gr REALs and the 454 Lees!

Thats fun just seeing how consistent and how fast they go.

[donjose]

I cant wait to see the velocity on the flying trash cans

[W.W.]

Mountaindevil54 ,
At how far are you shooting when you are testing ? And have you ever try'd to shoot at different spots over the graph (up or down) ? I know when getting our target bow's ready for tournament season you could shoot low in the graph and get a different reading than when shooting higher in it.

[MountainDevil54]

I aim 4" above the reader and straight through the center. Instructions said to keep it in the 4" high range for best results. I have a piece of duct tape on it that helps me figure out where to aim.

[Muley Hunter]

While you're playing around. Do some long rage Thor tests on the load we're going to use.

We're getting warm weather for the next 3-4 days.

[W.W.]

We were at the range the other day shooting the 200 yard targets and a buddy had his graph set up and wanted me to shoot through it to see how consistent Blackhorn 209 was.With the graph about 4 foot in front of the bench (with gaurd) useing a knight 45 Elite and 110gr of powder and a 195gr Barnes bullet it was showing 2208, 2204, 2206 . I had a11/4inch 3 shot group about 71/2 inch low and 1/2inch left(slight wind right to left) Needless to say the first look at the powder was impressive.

[MountainDevil54]

thats pretty close. I normally set mine 12 feet out. If its to close it can give you false readings.