Shot round 2 of the Kent BP winter league with last week's setup of .350 homecast hard balls with 0.010 patches lubed with Ox-Yoke. After three shots I changed the setup as the shots were awful flyers!
I still did two scoring flyers, but the rest of the shots were 8-ringers for an overall 73.0
Down on average but not too bad.
Next time I will amend the setup to increase the powder charge up to 11gns of Swiss No.1 powder. I'll also try the addition of around 8gns of filler (I'm going to use coarse ground semolina) on top of the loaded powder. Carrying on from the second part of today's shoot, I'll be using the Hornady cast 0.35 balls, but with 0.010 lubed patches (rather than the 0.015 patches I usually use). Later on I'll try the setup with JT Tanner 0.10 patches lubed with my recipe 09 Tallow:Olive Oil 1:6 or my slightly stiffer recipe 27C Beeswax:Lanolin:Neatsfoot Oil 2:1:12.
I'm also looking to get hold of some Henry Krank 'Competition Lube' to try.
Session Stats
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Average: 73.0
Std. Dev: 4.50
Overall Stats
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BC: 792
Running Average: 79.37
PB: 92.1
Cards: 63
Kent season shot average: 79.0
Kent season Std. Dev: 6.0
Shot the first card of the Kent County black powder leagues this morning. After a 10-shot warm up to adjust to the percussion pistol trigger instead of the air pistol trigger, managed a better than average 85.0
Although not a tight a group as I would have liked, the final score, with only two flyers, was most acceptable. The setup was different from usual in both balls and patches:
Pistol: .36 Mortimer
Powder: 9.5gns of Swiss No.1
Patches: 0.01" Ox-Yoke pre-lubed
Balls: .350" home cast round balls using a Lee mould
Normally I would use 0.015" patches with a .350" ball, but the home made balls are slightly harder than the Hornady balls that I usually shoot with. This is due to the 'impure' mixture of lead in the melting pot: recovered round balls, unshot round balls, recovered .38 and .357 heads shot by underlever rifles, unshot and recovered air pistol pellets.
They seem to do well, and once I get a suitable burner to melt the lead, I'll cast some more!
STATS
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Session score: 85.0
Average: 79.47
Cards: 62
BC: 779
Std. Dev: 3.91
Kent season shot average: 85.0
Although I cannot get the full distance (only 9.87m) and slightly too low (53 inches rather than 55 inches), I have been practising at home. Although only a 20-shot practise, it tested that the setup worked and that the light was adequate. Using the Steyr LP10 and the H&N finale match pellets (4.49mm), I shot an 80.0 and an 83.0 for stats of:
Session Stats
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Average: 81.50
Std. Dev: 1.50
Overall Stats
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BC: 470
Running Average: 77.76
Running Std. Dev: 6.18
PB: 90.0
The 'aim' is to try and get my air pistol average to 80.0 by the end of the year., althoug I'd be quite happy to pass 78.0 while improving by X-ring count!
Another training session with the air pistol shot at 10m, this time indoors! The first three cards showed slight improvements each time, but the final fourth card showed a poor than average score due to tiredness, mainly in the lower back.
Shot an 80.1 - 82.1 - 83.0 - 76.0
with the second card all in the black, single flyers on the first and third cards, and a mess on the last card.
Session Stats
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Average: 80.30
Std. Dev: 2.70
Overall Stats
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BC: 450
Running Average: 77.59
Running Std. Dev: 6.26
PB: 90.0
Posted these scores online with the Targetshooting Canada for their Postal Match.
See:
http://www.targetshooting.ca/reframerize.cfm?redirect=http://www.targetshooting.ca/postals/results.cfm
