lightfoot209
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Been having a time trying to find just what my rifle liked. Shot loads using Triple Seven (pretty much all I use nowadays as Holy Black is hard to find in my area) with 44cal bullets w/sabots, 451 bullets w/sabots 250gr Shockwaves w/Super Glide sabots and LEE R.E.A.L. 250gr cast bullet. Charges were 80 to 100grs loose powder. Just couldn't get it to settle down. So I found some Pyrodex RS powder at the local WalMart on clearance and I bought a pound (I haven't shot Pyrodex since the mid to late 70s). Wen to the range this morning and bam, right out of the gate with 70grs of Pyrodex hit 1 inch high of bull (3 inch bull) dead centered at 25 yds, cleaned bore and loaded up another round and hit top of bull at 12 o'clock , moved out to 50 yds, was hitting about 7 inches high but centered, adjusted sights and fired again and hit almost dead center of bull, tried another to make sure it wasn't a fluke and bullet hit right beside almost taking out center of bull. I never would have thought just changing powder and load (70grs of Pyrodex) would have made such a dramatic difference. Pure joy. I also noticed that Pyrodex fouling is not quite as bad as Triple Seven. Like I said, I haven't shot Pyrodex since the 70s, however I still like Triple Seven and use it in my caplock rifles and one 54cal smoothbore rifle. Guess one never gets too old to learn new tricks after all.