Dimensioning a 2-D PPB

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

Yes it will be interesting. The 600 yard at Rapids will tell me some, but the 1000 yard match will tell a lot more. Unfortunately matches are the only chance I have to shoot beyond my 220 yards here at home so load development can be slow and have many setbacks and I will only have one match to work with this year.

I'm not sure what I would change if it didn't shoot well. Increasing the charge opened up the groups and I can't really load less than 86 grains unless I develop some sort of wad stack to take up space. So far those efforts, what little there have been, didn't work too well. I don't think the bullet will be a problem and it's really the only choice I have right now.

If it holds up well at 600 I think there is a chance it hold out to 1000 at least reasonably well. The elliptical I shoot in my .45-70 has done well and I think this .44 bullet is actually a better design. So the real question is, will the load hold good verticals at 1000? There is only one way to find out and that will happen on September 26th.