2 May 2015

Getting ahead with the Kent Black Powder Leagues

On a slightly warmer range than recent weekends, managed to shoot rounds 6 and 7 of the summer season league. Using the normal setup:

Pistol: .36 Mortimer
Powder: 10.1gns of Swiss No.1
Patches: 0.015"  Ox-Yoke prelubed
Balls: .350" Hornady
Filler: 6.5gns of coarse ground semolina


shot the first of the two cards, round 6, for an 81.0





This set the Std.Dev to date to 1.12 indicating a card shot very close to current average. Without a break, shot the second card, round 7, for an 80.0

Although there is a pair of keyholed shots in the 9-ring at 1 o'clock, the card suffered several flyers due to lack of concentration following an incident on the range mid way through the card. Whilst cleaning the barrel after shot number 7, the jag holding the cleaning swab, snapped off at the bottom of the barrel:

I was unable to extract it from the muzzle end, so had to try another [successful] method; remove the access screw from the percussion nipple housing, carefully drop in 3-4 grains of black powder, reinsert the access screw, cap the nipple and then fire carefully downrange. Thankfully the small 'explosion' ejected the remains of the jag and swab.

I then went on to complete the card!

STATS
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Session score(s): 81 + 80

Overall Running Average: 79.42
BC: 974
PB: 92.1

Kent summer season - shot average: 78.9
Kent summer season - Std. Dev: 3.60

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