How effective is this load??
First of all I am very new to Black Powder guns and hunting with Black Powder. I bought a TC Encore because I wanted to take advantage of the Black powder season and try to take that late season wall hanger. I reload and shoot almost every smokeless round so I bought several different powders and bullets to establish the best group I could. A friend of mine was of about the same experience level and I went to the range yesterday and almost right away he was shooting varmint rifle groups with the combination of two fifty grain American Pioneer sticks and a 230 gr. Hornady HP/XTP in a plastic sabot sized for a .451 bullet. I tried the load in my rifle but I'm still looking. My question is how do you determine the energy of this load and would it be satisfactory for whitetail hunting with shots less than 150 yds.
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Do you mean the XTP? 0 -
Yes I mean XTP. My fingers can't keep up with my mind. 0 -
I believe you mean the 240 XTP.
I happen to have a Hornady ballistics chart here.
With 2 of the 50 grain Pyrodex pellets, the 240 XTP gives 2579 ft.lbs at the muzzle. At 150 yards, 1,335 ft.lbs
With the rifle zeroed at 150 yards, you will be 1.9 inches high at 50 yards, and 2.3 inches high at 100 yards.
Yes this would be a good deer killer out to 150.
Lots and lots of deer have been killed with the Hornady XTP.0
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