Went to the range Saturday morning. Weather was beautiful: almost 50 degrees, sunny, just a littlebreezy from right to left.
This was my first use of T7 - I was really looking forward to how it performed. The week before, I had zero'd my rifle with 2 - 50 gr Pyrodex pellets and 260 gr .451 Speer JHP's and Crush Rib sabots.
I started with 80 gr T7 and they printed a little low and left. Moved the scope to the right and bumped up to 85 gr T7 - supposedly equal to 100 gr Pyrodex. They printed a bit high and a little right, but ok for a breezy day.
Tried the 300 gr Speer JSP, and they printed almost exactly the same.
After just doing some shooting, I fired two 3-shot groups "for record" - that is, to show you guys. This rifle (BPI Beartooth) is printing 1 1/2 to 2" groups on a breezy day with ME behind the trigger - I'm a happy camper!
Just for fun, I also shot three 265 gr .475 bullets from Hawk Precision, and they landed high and left, and were 4-5" apart! Only thing I can figure is that the shorter bullet might require more speed to stabilize them. I don't think I'll be using them any more.
Four other observationsabout the T7: (1) My hand were less than half as dirty for the same amount of shooting (2) the perceived recoil was less than with Pyrodex (3) I forgot to use sabotloaders teflon tape trick on the breechplug, but it came out without a lot of trouble, just feeling a little "gummy" for the first full turn (4) cleanup was really easy!