I recently became intrigued by the BH209 talk, so I decided to try it at the range today to dial in a new scope. Using CCI 209, Hornady SST 250's, and 110 grains of BH out of my T/C Endeavor, I took six shots at 50 yards to adjust a bit (all were just high of the bullseye), then went to the 100 yard site where I took three more shots (still a little high and now to the right a bit but grouping well) did some minor tweaking with the scope, then put out a new target. This time I put two half an inch above the bullseye almost on top of one another and one just a quarter of an inch to the left of the bullseye.

Needless to say, I am quite impressed with BH! I ran some Hoppes 9 down the barrel followed by a dry patch before the last three shots and was surprised by the minimal fouling.

At home, the clean up was great. I'm sure Hoppes would've cleaned it easily, but I decided to use some CVA Barrel Blaster to work it first (probably not necessary though). The breech plug was remarkably clean compared to 777 and did not have a crud ring. In fact, I could actually use my fingers to turn out the speed breech (777 usually fouls it too badly to do that).

The only thing that was a little weird regarding the whole shoot was that when i broke the action between shots, smoke was still rolling out of the breech hole a little bit. My Kleanbores with 777 pellets never did that. Maybe those hot primers need to cool down a bit or maybe BH209 burns much hotter, but I made sure to pause before loading more powder down the barrel for fear of an ignition while my hand was on the ramrod. Anyone else experience this?

Overall, I don't want to knock other propellants (in fact, I like the convenience of 777 pellets), but all things considered, BH209 is the way to go for me. Great shooting and minimal cleanup without swabbing the barrel after every shot. What's not to like? I'll buy more in the future (provided it doesn't run out of stock during hunting season as demand for it increases).