savagescout

I forgot to mention that I do damp swab after each shot, and my reasoning for that is- that will be the condition of my bore in a real hunting situation. Most people shooting conicals from their Whites are not doing that - no need to and that might have some effect on accuracy also.

I know, I know, I have been in those rock crushing modes every once in awhile myself. At the Styrchnine sight there are lot of stumps from Potlatch logging. I like to put up a 6" to 10" rock on the top of the stumps and then pick themoff and watch or see the dust ball come up when you hit one and shatter it. I often get tired of shooting paper.

Suggestion do not by the 200 grain SST's to much $ to waste on paper, get a box of Hornady 200 grain XTP's and a package of MMP HPH-12's and shoot them they are a real blast. I am going to shoot some ground squirrels with that combination this spring out in the Vassar Meadow country.

Cdadwith whom I shoot a lot with used .504 Bullshops but did opt up to the .5045's, when I watched him load .504's the weight of the ram rod would push the bullet down and i always worried about the bullet coming off the load while hunting, but again that was with a fairly clean barrel.

What size BullShops were you shooting? I am also surprised that the White conicals did not shoot that well for you - I have never shot mine they are still in the tubes around here someplace.

Well gotta go - hope you get better groups in the future... (I know you will... but now that you got me thinking about the White - I might have to shoot that this weekend.. dang....)