Kent County Black Powder League

The Club 'Black Powder Captain' confirmed that we can start shooting cards for the winter season on the Kent County Black Powder League. Shot over 10 rounds with the best 10 of 13 shots to count per round. Each division consists of 10 shooters, sorted by average. Every one shoots and the best shot in the round scores 10 points, the second best scores 9 points, etc. The highest possible competition score at the end of the season being 100 points.

Round 1 card = 76

 

The round 1 card scored a 76, with a reasonable group but about three inches too low. No 10's or V bulls. The flier at 8 o'clock was a loading mistake by me. With cold fingers, I could not tell by feel that I was using three patches instead of the normal one. Otherwise the detail went well with no hiccups other than the heavy 'fog' caused by a lack of breeze to clear away the smoke.

Round 2 card = 80



The round card also started to form a low grouping, so I tried to compensate by manually adjusting the sight picture, hence the higher shots on the card. This gave a better score of 80 ex 100, with 1 V-bull. I will now look at raising the rearsight which should result in the raising of the barrel to compensate, which should then give a higher grouping on the card.

Set-up was 9 grains of Henry Krank's fine[FFFg], 0.015 lubed Ox-Yoke patch, .354 Pedersoli ball and Dynamit Nobel 1075 percussion cap.

Stats

Detail scores: 76 + 80

Running average: 76.9

Personal best: 88.1

Barrel count: 104