I had decent luck in my Knight with no excuses and BH 209, so unless you were having slight hangfires, I doubt if that was a problem. That said, looks like your bullets are making nice crisp round holes. With my Omega, they would tumble and go through the target sideways. However, they would shoot the maxiballs with a wad pretty well until I got higher than 90 gr of powder. Only real difference there is that the no excuses were bigger (460 gr vs. 370). With the Omega, I was using 777 and pyrodex. I suspect that your QLA is cut better.