Originally Posted by
rafsob
I too have a Knight Vision and love it. The BH209 does do a great job and is very accurate. My most accurate load was shooting 100 grs under a Hornaday FPB bullet. I know this bullet is very heavy at 350 grs for a deer sized animal, but it is very accurate.
I have several old boxes of .45cal handgun bullets I have accumulated over the years from hand loading my Para-Ord P-12, one box I think is 300gr HP I am going to play with. Even though I think mass matters when talking killing power, nothing beats a well placed shot. I use to routinely take Caribou in AK with my 25-06 using hand loaded 120gr Noslers Partitions when I lived there.
I am ordering some 45cal Nosler handgun bullets tonight I like them so much.
I know the cost of BH209 is a draw back but it has its place I think and if I had to go into the bush I would take it as I think its the most chemically stable and resistant to climatic conditions....but then again what do I know.....
The more I use it the more I might like it.
Originally Posted by
Underclocked
No, I meant to be asking the OP. But you confirmed what I was going to suggest to him regarding the swabbing with BH209.
But I still want to know what he was using to swab with...
I was swabbing between shots with "usually" a lightly oiled patch. The fffg powder had to have the barrel cleaned well to get a follow up shot.
This is just me but the BH209 powder I thought should have been weighed vs just measured by volume.
I shot my 54cal hawkins with BH209 also and thought it was way to hot a load for it at volume measurements. Of course this is a much older weapon using balls.
I currently am bidding on a BP 12ga shotgun on Gunbroker for turkey season.