fred2012
Fred. the Barnes is an extremly long bullet and if you are going to shoot it from a 1/28 you really need to drive it.
2 - 50 grain pellets of T7 probably will not be enough charge to get it done. 100 grains of pellets is equal to about 100 grains of Loose BP or Pyro.
Recently i shot some 300 grain Lehigh bullets and got them to shoot extremly well for me. The Lehigh is an all brass bullet and like the all copper Barnes it take a lot of length to get a bullet that weighs 300 grains.
Here is a picture of the comparison...
You can see they are about equal length. The only way you are going to get accuracy from this length bullet is to shoot then fast enough to really have them spin fast enough to stabilze. Check Lee's post as he discusses the same thing.
If you must shoot pellets you have a couple of options...
a) Shoot 3 pellets which will equal about 150 of BP/Pyro
b) Purchase T7 Mag Pellets and then you can shoot 2 pellets
c) Switch to loose powder.
I think you will need to shot 120/130 grains of BP/Pyro to get then to the speed they need. I shoot them with 110 grains of loose T7-2f and they shoot very well.
Another option is to shoot a shorter bullet as Lee has suggested - I normally use a Nosler Partiton - either a .452/300 grain or a .458/300 grain (.458 being my favorite right now today, but that may change this hunting as I am going to try a new bullet)
This a target with my first attempt at shooting these very long bullets... The Lehighs punched very neat holes...
Might take a peek at this thread - I used a Nosler on this cow elk... great results.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.a...2celk�