Some shooting with the Whitworth
.............This was a few weeks back and the targets have been floating wround in the trunk of the car.
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Both the above targets were fired at 100 yards with the same load but different front sight inserts. The left one had a blade and the right used an apurture front insert. I had swaged up 100 slugs and then took them to work and spent a couple hours one night patching them up. These weighed 482grs +/- .3gr max. Most were within 1/10 gr as close as the Dillon could split them.
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Just a shorter version of these. These were 530gr slugs. The Load was 80.0 of Elephant 2Fg measured and poured down the barrel, as I had forgotten the drop tube. Then a .100" thick lubed felt wad was run down. After this, one damp patch and one dry patch went up and down the barrel to the wad.
At loading the patched slugs had a thin film of TC Bore Butter whipped on by finger. Then the slug was set in the muzzle and would usually beat the ramrod down the barrel :-). You could usually hear it 'Thump' against the wad before I could get the range rod set into the muzzle.
I think the left group was larger just because the blade was harder to hold consistantly then using an apurture. I don't think apurture front sights are legal in regulated competition.
The 4 rounds grouped in the right target measure 1-1/8". Just HAD to have that flyer. I think that is one of the reasons paper patch slugs aren't used more in competition then they are. It adds another variable to the equation, and that flyer could very well have been caused by a patch that didn't completly leave the slug until sometime later in it's flight.
Counting the flyer the right group is 3" :-(
Regardless it was fun!
................Buckshot