I finally got a full day to spend at the range. Last year was my first year with a BP and I was only able to shoot out to about 100 yards and I never got the accuracy I had hoped for. I started shooting with 2 pellets of triple 7 and a buffalo bullet company 245 grain jacketed hollow point. I was getting good groups at 50 and 100 yards. I also tried 100 grains of pyrodex powder and it shot a little worse. The pyrodex was filthy and I had trouble loading a second shot. I then tried the pellets again with a 250 shockwave. I fired 4 shots at 100 yards and was more than pleased. 3 shots were under an inch and one was 4 inches high and right. I'd like to think I pulled that one. I was shooting from a broken shooting bench with awarped gun rest. I only had one box of the shockwaves so I shot a few more at 50 and 100 yards with great results. I couldn't wait to try a 200 yard shot. Thats the reason I bought a BP, I live in a shotgun only area and I was hoping to increase my range. I could only set up to shoot 190 yards where I was. I carefully loaded and fired my last two shots. I had a great two shot group of 2 1/2 inches and they were almost exactly 12 inches low and centered under the bull. It worked out to be 2 inches high at 50, dead on at 100 and 12 inches low at 190.

I'm going to buy a few more boxes of shochwaves and hit the range a few more times. I would have liked to try 130 and 150 grains with the shockwave to see what would happen at150 and190 yards. It turned out to be a successful day, I even got my slug gun finally shooting great groups at 100 yards. My shoulder is going to need some time to recover though.

Any day at the range is a great day in my book. It sounds like your rifle likes Shockwaves. They are without doubt a great bullet. Depending on what rifle I am shooting, I will push them to 120 grains of loose powder with excellent accuracy. Also your numbers for drop, etc sound right. Good shooting and keep working at it.

It's strange that last year shockwaves did not shoot well for me. I did lap the barrel because I had trouble loading sabots and I didn't try them again after that. Hopefully on the 18th I will get a chance to try out the shockwave on a fat NY buck.

Thompson Center changes their plastic sabot diameters occasionally. Could be why you are finding inconsistencies when loading them. Buy them from a high-volume hunting store for most recent offerings. If tough-loading continues, try the Super-Glide Shockwaves in the ugly yellow plastic sabots.