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03-19-2008 | 01:12 PM

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cayugad

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From: Wisconsin

Lyman in the wind

It was really really windy today. But I wanted to shoot anyway since it was 40 degrees. So I put up a target and took out the Lyman Trade Rifle flintlock. I wanted to try some 3f Goex powder and see what effect wind would have. The wind was blowing left to right on that picture. I would have never throught wind would have effected the .530 roundball as it appeared to do. Although I was shootin 3f and normally I shoot 90 grains of 2f Goex. I did not swab between shots.

I was using an old brass powder measure and after shooting a number of loads, came to realize that it was shooting 100 grains of Goex 3f. There are no numbers on this old measure, so I finally checked it against a see through. I shot five rounds with the 100 grains of powder. They all grouped mind you, but I did not expect them to hit that high.

Out of curiosity, I swabbed the barrel and then loaded 70 grains of Goex 3f. And I changed from a solid patch lube to moose milk. I fired four shots. About then company came over, so with the wind and all I decided to stop for the day. I was kind of surprised that 100 grains of Goex 3f would shoot like that. On some day when the wind is not howling like today, I want to try all of this again...

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