Today I set out to try Long Shot and Green dot as a booster to see if I can get good ignition and low ES. I have a fairly old chronograph with no sun shades and it was pretty sunny out today. Along with I managed to skip a bullet off the top of the chrono the last time I had it out, whoops. It still seems to read but I don't have allot of confidence in the graph.
First I shot two more fouling shots on the barrel which gave it a total of 5 fouling shots from a clean barrel. (I shot it three times when some friends were over because they wanted to see how it worked.)
Today's temp 37-40°
Little to no wind
McRem 45 Cal 25" Barrel
250 SST
10/60 4759/4198
Win 209 Primer (all shots)
Wool Wad (all shots)
1-2982
2-2742
Notice the huge difference between shots, this is where my confidence is low.
1st Group after fouling shots
300 BE's
10/70 LS/3031
1-2941
2-2944
3-2911
30 ES
300 SST
10/70 LS/3031
1-2911
2-2714
3-2971
*257 ES WTH*
*Notice the 200 ES--Not a confidence booster
300 BE's
10/70 GD/3031
1-2813
2-2794
3-2791
22 ES
300 SST
10/70 GD/3031
1-2546
2-2604
3-2776
*230 ES WTH*
*Another confidence booster here with ES
The last group of the day was the 300 SST which shows a lot of promise however I don't like the ES which make me feel my chrono doesn't read correctly all the time. Another thing is I my rifle only has the recoil lug bedded and I feel if I bedded the whole action and pillar bedded it the rest of the rifle would settle down. However with the ES being crazy it hard to justify bedding the rest of the rifle at the moment. IMO
Any thoughts?
Ordered a new Caldwell chronograph on amazon for $69/shipped
First I shot two more fouling shots on the barrel which gave it a total of 5 fouling shots from a clean barrel. (I shot it three times when some friends were over because they wanted to see how it worked.)
Today's temp 37-40°
Little to no wind
McRem 45 Cal 25" Barrel
250 SST
10/60 4759/4198
Win 209 Primer (all shots)
Wool Wad (all shots)
1-2982
2-2742
Notice the huge difference between shots, this is where my confidence is low.
1st Group after fouling shots
300 BE's
10/70 LS/3031
1-2941
2-2944
3-2911
30 ES
300 SST
10/70 LS/3031
1-2911
2-2714
3-2971
*257 ES WTH*
*Notice the 200 ES--Not a confidence booster
300 BE's
10/70 GD/3031
1-2813
2-2794
3-2791
22 ES
300 SST
10/70 GD/3031
1-2546
2-2604
3-2776
*230 ES WTH*
*Another confidence booster here with ES
The last group of the day was the 300 SST which shows a lot of promise however I don't like the ES which make me feel my chrono doesn't read correctly all the time. Another thing is I my rifle only has the recoil lug bedded and I feel if I bedded the whole action and pillar bedded it the rest of the rifle would settle down. However with the ES being crazy it hard to justify bedding the rest of the rifle at the moment. IMO
Any thoughts?
Ordered a new Caldwell chronograph on amazon for $69/shipped
