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Okay, I know what you are thinking. "Dang it Ugly, another ugly group?" Well it's not so ugly if you consider I shot it with my paper cartridge quick loads. They were loaded with 100 grains 1fg, primed from the cartridge and noticed no real delay in ignition. This lock is so fast I don't think you could slow it down! Anyhow, for close in work, and time is of the essence, the paper cartridges rock. Sure glad I had them when I chased that wounded bear around in the brush...even though the brush deflected my shots, and I missed twice. !!! But hey, just a paper tube with a ball and powder in it, and dipped in hot bee's wax.
Anyhow, I was shooting her anyway, as I changed up my load. Almost out of Swiss, but I have a bit of 2fg Goex, so I upped my charge from 110 grains of 2fg Swiss, to 120 grains 2fg Goex. There was more recoil, so Goex really ain't no weak sister, or that weak of a sister.
Also used my bear grease for the first time, for patch lube. Bee's waxed felt wad over the powder, slightly bear-lubed felt wad over that, and a heavily bear-greased .017" patch around a .600" ball. Shot really nice, 3-4" at 100 yards, and same POI as the 110 grain load. Without the sun glaring off my front sight I'm sure she's a solid three-incher at 100.
I was also shooting .595" balls I got from TOW with a .023" patch previously, but discovered that they are out of round, quite a bit, so I went back to the .600"s. The thinner patch shows a tiny bit of tearing, but it's not affecting accuracy, so I'm calling it good.
Brown Rosie says: "thanks for listening"!