Lee

All your information is correct anyway from my point of view it is.

But you also have to remember not all will see what you see. I have shot 130 grains of BH (actually 140 grains in a Knight with a 200 grain Lehigh to which velocity was less than 130) and at my elevation - I do not reach the velocity that you and Tom do.

Toby Bridges has conducted many such shooting experiments at his elevation and Montana and does not see what you and Tom see.

BH is a great powder!!! but you might as well buy a Savage and reap the full benefits of shooting smokeless at a far less cost. The additional expense of burning out a breech plug because of the primer necessary (gas cutting) and the greater heat created by BH in the bore (as with any smokeless) should also be computed into the formula. Although we may have found an answer for the breech plug issue. But even then not everyone is going to trust a couple of back yard mechanics... might even present some implications to warranties.

You and a lot of other folks see a lot of benefits, as I do but i do not see the night and day difference that might justify the cost of the powder versus others and i really think that there are draw backs also as there are with any other powders, and for me the draw backs do not weigh out.


I think Flounder may have touched it best - to those that choose to shoot BH - GREAT! and to us that shoot something else we should not be considered in the dark ages