Development of PP loads for the .44-77.

[Kurt]

Man your right!! hot!!
I went to the range today also with the .44-77 Farmer and it was a disaster!!
The Jeep thermometer said 94 and no air moving, the smoke just hung in there.
I loaded some 5 shot ladder loads with different bullets and powder. I took some sighter shots to bring the scope on target (upper left spot) and moved to the top center with some 3F 80 gr loads and the gibbs bullet. $ shots went 2 1/4" and the 5th went high. I could not see the holed through the cardboard using a spotting scope so I ran down range to see if I was close enough to the orange dot to shoot the rest of the loads ranging from 3F to 1.5F so I just shot each test load on all spots going right to left and down. The target was in the shadows and those little posters are small and hard to see so I just shot and never went back down range till the box was empty.

I have no clue what went on. It looks like I took a shot gun loaded with 000 buck. The groups drifted right and up 12" plus. A lot of sweat for nothing this morning. Everything on the scope is tight when I got home. Don't know what is going on yet.