OK -someone check my math...

One bottle of T7 contains 454 Grams of powder...which equals approx. 7006 grains... 100 grains volume of T7 ='s approx. 77.7 grains (weight)-> which equals about 90 shots per bottle.... (16 oz bottle)

Busta did the math on BH-209 with 100 grain volume loadsand came up with about 65 shots per bottle (10 oz bottle) - In short what that means to me is one good trip to the range and I have probably used up a bottle of BH-209.

So you all can do the cost-per-shot computations... Plus as Dave has already mentioned - I am perfectly hapy shooting fairly inexpensive bullets. I feel I need to be able to keep my cost per shot down as much possible - but that is really getting tuff theses days...

Somewhere in these numbersI compute it is a lot less expensive to shoot T7 - it will not quite equal the velocity of the BH-209, but for me and hunting it is close enough...

The biggest reason to make the jump that everyone talks about...
1. Non corrosive 2. No "Crud Ring" 3. No swabbing 4. No frozen breech plugs.

I know I am one of the lucky ones when it comes to T7...

The only one on the list that might be a problem is corrosion and that is so easily taken care of with a regular windex patch... I am not anal at all about cleaning my ML's.... I shoot them before the season to check 0 - then patch the barrel with windex and the gun normally remains that way until the end of the season...

How much time does it take to run a patch - you have to let the barrel cool anyway -if you are shooting sabots at the range... and while huntng if you need that quick second, third, fourth shot - I can normally do that also... For some reason I really do not build up the big "crud ring" in any of my guns - inlines or sidehammers. The very first shot from the barrel usually produces a slight ring but the patch take care of the very quickly... successive shots produce less ring.

I have not had a frozen breech plug in years... (knocking on wood) and I can shoot up to 50 shots a trip to the rock pit (it is a 60 mile round trip - so I try to make it worth while)- I would say I would easily average 40.

The other thing I am looking at is BH-209 will hold the price up as long as they can and if the powder is a success they will gain a market share - which might lower the price of T7... + there are some many rules to shooting BH-209 -> right now the only gun I have that meets their stated qualification is the Omega... the Knight does not match but it is know that you can shoot the 209 from the Knight with a BP change.

So all in all, even thought I do have a bottle possibly on order from a local dealer - dealing directly with Western Powder - I will not be making the switch anytime soon.