ORIGINAL: brad_vanderband1
to start i am fairly new with muzzleloaders and am just beginning to understand and love the sport. so yesterday i was at the range with my first experience shooting loose powder. I am shooting a T/C Omega z5 with 250 grain shockwaves and 90 grains of 777 ffg. am shooting clover leafs at 100yds all day. am holding dead on at 100. then back of to 200 and they are about 14 inches low. i know that alot of people talk about shooting at 200 so do you just hold that high over or what. i even tried shooting with 120 grains of powder and it didnt make a difference.
The shots you see on TV being done by Greg Ritz are with 150g of 777 pellets, not with 90 or 120g of loose. Most folks that shoot long distances shoot 3" high at 100 and then they are about 3" low at between 150 and 175, but with a 250g SW, that is closer to 200. Chap