Pyrodex / Hornady Great Plains ballistics.

samsmix · November 29, 2021, 01:53 PM

I'm looking for info from anyone who has/does shoot the .50 Hornady Great Plains bullet over Prodex RS in a 24" Hawken or similar (1:48).

Have you choreographed it, and if so what kind of velocities are you getting?

noelf2 · November 29, 2021, 05:11 PM

I'm not sure one could choreograph a bullet in flight. But there is a dancing bullet app for Android devices.

**4V50 Gary** · November 29, 2021, 08:26 PM

Radar tracking could do it but I doubt if the Army or anyone else who has the equipment would cooperate.

Jim Watson · November 30, 2021, 10:33 AM

Come on, guys, he is being victimized by a spellcheck that reads choreograph for chronograph.

Any road, surely somebody in the OP's area has a chronograph he can use to get a real reading on real loads in his own rifle.

samsmix · December 4, 2021, 04:12 PM

It was in fact a smellcheck/autodefect error, but I don't mind. All work and no play makes TFL a dull site.

Oh, but it's a 28" barrel though.

cptjack · December 5, 2021, 06:56 AM

70 gr by volume gives me bulls in my hawking

Colorado Redneck · December 7, 2021, 10:48 PM

Triple 7 ffg and a Hornady Great Plains 54 cal produced 1465 fps over a chrony out of a Hawkin. Son took a nice 6x6 bull elk at around 80 yards with a single round. Sorry I have no info on powder charge, it was 12 years ago. My notes only gave the velocity.

November 29, 2021, 01:53 PM	#1
samsmix Senior Member Join Date: June 29, 2006 Location: Montana (Montucky?) Posts: 1,267	Pyrodex / Hornady Great Plains ballistics. I'm looking for info from anyone who has/does shoot the .50 Hornady Great Plains bullet over Prodex RS in a 24" Hawken or similar (1:48). Have you choreographed it, and if so what kind of velocities are you getting? __________________ You'll probably never NEED a gun. I hope you never do. But IF you do, you will need it worse than anything you've ever needed in your life. IF we're not supposed to eat animals, howcome God made 'em outta meat?

November 29, 2021, 05:11 PM	#2
noelf2 Senior Member Join Date: April 14, 2008 Location: Stuart, VA Posts: 2,471	I'm not sure one could choreograph a bullet in flight. But there is a dancing bullet app for Android devices. __________________ Liberty and freedom often offends those who understand neither.

November 29, 2021, 08:26 PM	#3
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,423	Radar tracking could do it but I doubt if the Army or anyone else who has the equipment would cooperate. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

December 4, 2021, 04:12 PM	#5
samsmix Senior Member Join Date: June 29, 2006 Location: Montana (Montucky?) Posts: 1,267	It was in fact a smellcheck/autodefect error, but I don't mind. All work and no play makes TFL a dull site. Oh, but it's a 28" barrel though. __________________ You'll probably never NEED a gun. I hope you never do. But IF you do, you will need it worse than anything you've ever needed in your life. IF we're not supposed to eat animals, howcome God made 'em outta meat?

December 7, 2021, 10:48 PM	#7
Colorado Redneck Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2008 Location: Northeast Colorado Posts: 1,978	Triple 7 ffg and a Hornady Great Plains 54 cal produced 1465 fps over a chrony out of a Hawkin. Son took a nice 6x6 bull elk at around 80 yards with a single round. Sorry I have no info on powder charge, it was 12 years ago. My notes only gave the velocity. Last edited by Colorado Redneck; December 7, 2021 at 10:53 PM.

November 30, 2021, 10:33 AM	#4
Jim Watson Senior Member Join Date: October 25, 2001 Location: Alabama Posts: 17,591	Come on, guys, he is being victimized by a spellcheck that reads choreograph for chronograph. Any road, surely somebody in the OP's area has a chronograph he can use to get a real reading on real loads in his own rifle.

December 5, 2021, 06:56 AM	#6
cptjack Senior Member Join Date: October 1, 2014 Posts: 289	70 gr by volume gives me bulls in my hawking

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