I have a little more barrel to work with in the Omega. I also found that with Black Mag'3 the 209 primer made more velocity than the small rifle primer. I am not sure what you are using for primer but with shorter barrel it is possible that a hotter primer may get the charge lit sooner and give you sufficient burn to accelerate the bullet in 22 inches. I am guessing that the Pinnacle will work similar to the Black Mag'3 only from rumor that they are both ascorbic acid based propellants. I should know more when I have some to shoot. A representative from Goex told me I should not have to pay $25 a pound for Pinnacle but that is what it is costing me for five pounds with shipping and hazmat. He says they do not have a distributor in the Phoenix Arizona area yet. I ordered mine from Powderinc.

I'm still using #11 CCI Mag caps with my rifle and I think cayugad is still using caps too. The only time I ever had an ignition problem was with a Pyro pellet load and that was only a one time occurance.

I have a lb of BlackMag coming tomorrow from Mid-South, so hopefully soon, I'll be able to do some load comparisons and get some Chrony data too. I'll even break out some of the old 2fg Clean Shot I hadn't opened yet and see how it compares too.

Hey Mark,

Make sure you shoot some of those big conicals like my No Excuse 460's. Let me/us know what amount you use and the speed. Since I don't have a chrono or access to one I am looking forward to your post.

Paul

Like Mark... my Wolverine II LK-93 is an old model. It has a 22" barrel and still a #11 cap ignition.. Great shooting rifle. Why with the Pinnacle that little rifle would not shoot the big conicals of the big heavy sabots I have no idea. I should bring the Black Diamond XR out and really push the devil out of the things and see what happens.

Yes it will be real interesting to see the results you guys get over the chronographs. I should mention to someone that I want one of them. Of course no telling what you would end up with.. it can shock you.

I have the base Crony and it is very reliable. It does not have all the bells and whistles but the data is good. Just protect the parts from the muzzleblast from muzzleloaders. I burned the face of my first one and had to send it in for repair. I now have a plexiglas shield that covers the front of the Crony and keeps all the unburned powder and burning powder off the expensive face. I didn't think and set it up just like I did for smokeless loads and was I surprised and a little upset when I saw the results.

I'm using a Chrony Beta Master and so far so good on it's working well. I did not get any powder blast,etc on it from shooting the rifle last time - but I did place it about 10ft from the muzzle.
Now when I used it for my cap & ball testing and only set it about 3to 4ft from the muzzle - MAN did I coat it in crud. It didn't do any damage to the unit, but it sure peppered the painted face of it though. When I saw that I just rigged up some cardboard in front of it and that did the trick..........except the skyscreen wires sure took a good "smoking". Fortunately, black powder residue is water soluable - so a quick wipe down had everything as clean as new.