[ulflyer]

Well, I run a few more strings this pm and rather than list a bunch of numbers I'll just report that the 200 gr/3.3 Clays came out about the same as yesterday. Yesterdays overall avg was 576 and today was 598, a tad higher. I tried "positioning" the powder, both up and down, and it did SEEM to make a slight diff, but not conclusively with the small number I fired. I did run a string of 5 thru my Springer 1911 and it avg 658...higher as one might expect. The surprise was a string of 6 (all I had) of 200 gr SWC/Bullseye 3.9 ...very consistant . Gonna hafta load up some more to see if the Bullseye is really better. a 5 shot string of XTP 230 HP/4.0 Clays produced pretty good consistant results:

200 SWC/3.9 Bullseye: hi 739, lo 682, avg 689.
XTP 230hp/4.0 Clays: hi 767, lo 740, avg 754

Then, when I went to factory stuff it really got consistant:
Rem GS 185 HP: hi 921, lo 901, avg 913.
WWB ................ hi 796, lo 781, avg 789.

At this early stage, it almost seems as tho a light load of Clays cannot produce the consistancy as a "normal" load. To soon to say for sure, but thats all I can see at this point. Maybe its the powder, as the Bullseye was a light load and it did good. Something to play with.

And as luck would have it, one shot clipped the rear of the Chrony and bent the top edge of the metal, but did'nt damage the electronics! Wheww!

edited to add: I loaded up some Bullseye in 3.5, 3.7. 3.9gr with 200 RNFP and got reasonably consistant FPS. As these are light loads, don't understand why the Clays produce more variation than the Bullseye. I ran a bunch more of the Clays and it is indeed INconsistant. However, and this is weird, its more accurate than the 3.5 & 3.7 Bull. Haven't tested the 3.9 yet for accuracy. In the tests initially reported above I didn't shoot for accuracty, just wanted to compare FPS.