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I’ve used this powder twice once with volume charges not great at all . So I set my measure to 90 grains then weighed my charges finally setting on a weight of 73.1 took it to the range and using in my sidelock put 3 out of 4 in the same hole with 4th about 1/2 inch away at 50 yds. Went to 100 and hit bottom of a 5x5 plate constantly. Put up paper target shot a 1.9 inch 3 shot group . This was 4 inches low and 3 right . So I began to adjust but I ran out of my weighed loads . Tried a few volume loads back to not great .
Now as a comparison same gun but with 90 grains volume of Goex same group at 50 but 3 inches high but at 100 group 1.65 and 1.01 and centered .
So what I have found is the SW powder must be in my opinion be weighed for consistency. I threw 2 light charges because my measure got plugged by the kernels. It handles much easier on my scale than 777 . I don’t believe it is as powerful as Swiss or Triple 7 but it is much cleaner and when fired from my Traditions sidelock is much cleaner and did not exhibit a crud ring.
I am going to load up about 30 charges at 100 gr and try it in my Traditions Tracker which is setup for musket cap and concentrate at 100 yds.
I’m curious as to what you guys that use this powder are seeing if it works well in the Tracker I’m getting sold on this as an alternative to Triple 7 as some of my ml just don’t like the stuff.
Now as a comparison same gun but with 90 grains volume of Goex same group at 50 but 3 inches high but at 100 group 1.65 and 1.01 and centered .
So what I have found is the SW powder must be in my opinion be weighed for consistency. I threw 2 light charges because my measure got plugged by the kernels. It handles much easier on my scale than 777 . I don’t believe it is as powerful as Swiss or Triple 7 but it is much cleaner and when fired from my Traditions sidelock is much cleaner and did not exhibit a crud ring.
I am going to load up about 30 charges at 100 gr and try it in my Traditions Tracker which is setup for musket cap and concentrate at 100 yds.
I’m curious as to what you guys that use this powder are seeing if it works well in the Tracker I’m getting sold on this as an alternative to Triple 7 as some of my ml just don’t like the stuff.