9 April 2015

Start of the Kent Black Powder summer season

Started off the summer black powder season with the following setup:

Pistol: .36 Mortimer
Powder: 9.1gns of Swiss No.1
Patches: 0.010" 

Percussion caps: Number 11 - Dynamit Nobel
Lubricant: 1:2:12 Lanolin:Beeswax:Neats Foot Oil
Balls: .350" Hornady
Filler: 6.5gns of coarse ground semolina


On a day when the range temperature was around 13degC, the first card produced too many flyers to give a good score:


Overall the card scored as a 72 ex 100 with none in the 10-ring.

For the round 2 card I decided to change the patch to a thicker 0.015 Ox-Yoke prelubed. I went with the prelubed as I didn't have any of the plain 0.015 J.T. Tanner patches with me.

Patches: 0.015"  Ox-Yoke prelubed

This resulted in a tighter group with the 10 scoring shots all touching or inside the black.



With the thicker patch, and slightly harder loading, the final card score was an 81.1

STATS
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Session score(s): 72 - 81.1
Session Average: 76.60


Kent season Average: 76.60

Kent season Std. Dev: 4.55

Running Average: 79.39
Barrel count: 922


For round 3 I will stay with the thicker patch set up.

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