Last Saturday (after cooling off following the range session with the .58) I decided to brave the heat again and see what happened with round balls and light charges in the .45 Renegade's Green Mountain 1:30 twist Long Range Hunter barrel.

The gun was sighted in for 200 grain .40 Hornadys in sabots with 95 grains of GOEX and I had no idea where a patched ball might hit. So I shot the first target at 25 yards with 40 grains GOEX FFFg.

Here it is.



That really got me pumped and thinking "head of squirrel at 50 yards". So I adjusted the scope using the 'aim at the bull and move the cross hairs to the bullet hole" method, and shot five balls at 50 yards.

Here's the target.



MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT! That's too big a group for head of squirrel. But it's pretty close.

I began wondering if a lighter or heavier charge would tighten it up. So I shot five more with 30 grains (target below).



That didn't do the job, but those three together are somewhat intriguing.

Would you like to see what bumping the charge up to 50 grains would do?

So would I. But I was so hot and miserable that I quit for the day, cleaned the gun on the deck under the fan, packed up, and headed for home.