abunaitoo
06-20-2017, 06:29 PM
I like to play with loads.
Different powders, boolets, weights.......
I was thinking the other day (bad for me) about boolets stabilizing at different speeds.
Might just be thinking bubbles, but see what you think....
With light, fast burning powder. It kind of kicks the boolet out of the barrel, at a slow speed, and it's just lobbing it along.
I've found this works best with heavy boolets.
Works great, but you have to move the sight to shoot farther.
I'd like it to shoot POA at 50yds and 100yds.
Like with high power jacket bullets.
When I try to increase the charge, with cast boolets, the higher is gets, it reaches a point that the groups start to open up.
My thinking is it's going to fast for what the boolet is made for.
I can get it to hit center at 50/100yds, without moving the sights, but accuracy is not what it is with a lighter load.
I've been playing with a 2A for a little while.
I noticed that, at 100yds, the groups did open up as the charge got higher, but they all grouped to the left.
I just thought the sights were off, and so I didn't move it.
Funny thing is it's dead on at 50yds. Sometimes 5 shots touching.
Are the boolets just not stabilizing at 100yds because their not going fast enough????
Kind of like throwing a baseball. The correct speed, and it's a curve ball. Faster and it's a fast ball.
With this thinking, could the load just be slow enough to be curving the boolet.
If I speed it up, might it stabilize and go straight?????
Different powders, boolets, weights.......
I was thinking the other day (bad for me) about boolets stabilizing at different speeds.
Might just be thinking bubbles, but see what you think....
With light, fast burning powder. It kind of kicks the boolet out of the barrel, at a slow speed, and it's just lobbing it along.
I've found this works best with heavy boolets.
Works great, but you have to move the sight to shoot farther.
I'd like it to shoot POA at 50yds and 100yds.
Like with high power jacket bullets.
When I try to increase the charge, with cast boolets, the higher is gets, it reaches a point that the groups start to open up.
My thinking is it's going to fast for what the boolet is made for.
I can get it to hit center at 50/100yds, without moving the sights, but accuracy is not what it is with a lighter load.
I've been playing with a 2A for a little while.
I noticed that, at 100yds, the groups did open up as the charge got higher, but they all grouped to the left.
I just thought the sights were off, and so I didn't move it.
Funny thing is it's dead on at 50yds. Sometimes 5 shots touching.
Are the boolets just not stabilizing at 100yds because their not going fast enough????
Kind of like throwing a baseball. The correct speed, and it's a curve ball. Faster and it's a fast ball.
With this thinking, could the load just be slow enough to be curving the boolet.
If I speed it up, might it stabilize and go straight?????