Was a the range last Friday and was shooting my Knight Vision. I was loading 100grs. of BH209 under the Hornaday FPB bullets. I was trying the 300 gr bullet. I have been shooting the 350 gr. bullets now for a while and wanted to try the lighter bullets.

Well after shooting a couple of primers through the barrel and after running a couple of patches to clean out the barrel of any oils. My first shot fired and I new it wasn't right. It was as if I was shooting a very light load and had vey little recoil. And sure enough, when I checked out my target, the shot was very low. As much as 20" below POA. I couldn't believe it and thought my scope had how gotten off. I know I had not dropped my gun or banged it any way. My second shot was more normal and with plenty of recoil it hit close to POA.

Everything went normal after that and I came to the conclusion that the 350gr bullets were going to be my bullet of choice. The 300 gr FPBs were all over the place, no matter how much I changed my powder charge.

Well as I was shooting one of my last shots, I got the worst fire I have ever gotten with a ML'der with a full charge. It was as if I had dry loaded a bullet and removed the nipple and put a small amount of powder to get the bullet out of the barrel. It was that bad. Now this was 100gr powder load?!?! This is not making any sense to me.

All in all I fired about 23 bullets through my Vision that day. I didn't run any patches through the barrrel between shots. I don't do this with BH209 and didn't think it was necessary to do it now. This has got me stumped. This powder is new and kept in a cool dry place.

Anyone ever had this happen to them? Or does anyone have a possible explanation? I love this powder and the way it performs in my Knight Vision. I don't want to change, but I don't want this to happen to me when I am in the woods and Bullwinkle comes along!

Help!!!