Time to continue load development with my .44-77.

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

Thank you. I think the wad is the first place to start. Something is causing a few wild outliers and I need to fix that before I worry about the core group size, which isn't bad at this point.

We.ve got 4 days of bad weather coming starting today and then some cold weather. At the first break in the weather I'll start moving machines and after that I need to get back on this .44. I would be happy for now with consistent 10-shot groups around 3 inches. I can work that down through the summer at matches, but these wild, unexplained shots I would accept.

Oddly, I didn't have the wild shots with the cupped base and the same wad setup. I picked up one of those bullets yesterday that had been slowed by the snow but still hit the ground. It is bent at the nose but the rifling goes right to the top edge of the patch and the cupped base looks really good with clear impressions of the fold over even into the cup.

You should be shooting in Arizona today, right?