The bullet is Accurate #433205C, cast at 210 grains and lubed with a homemade soft lube. Primer used was regular Federal Large Pistol with a Winchester case. I used a Lyman BP measure with a 2 ft. drop tube to charge the cases with 37 gr. by weight of Olde Eynsford FFFg, then added a single milk carton wad and further compressed the powder with a compression die to allow bullet seating.
The test involved firing a full box of 50 rounds off the bench at 100 yards without wiping or blow-tubing the bore in any way, and carefully noting the location of each shot. I did allow the barrel to cool a bit after each 15 shots. Accuracy was not great, but all 50 shots were on the target. When I got back home I used some painted metal washers to analyze the layout of each ten shots, and photographed the results. To my great surprise, shots 21-30, right in the middle of the testing, were easily the tightest group!
Here are shots 1-10:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/ZdCRWg3.jpg)
shots 11-20:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/TGe5ly5.jpg)
shots 21-30:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/vZGRMhN.jpg)
shots 31-40:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/6NRUADT.jpg)
shots 41-50:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/O3bTH7c.jpg?1)
Best of all, I was delighted to find that after 50 shots the bore fouling was still quite soft and not much of it! No lead fouling either! The bore came clean with just four patches:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/7pBW7Dg.jpg)
I plan to conduct similar experiments with the other granulations of Olde Eynsford, then once I have found the cleanest shooting one, I can start modifying the charge for accuracy. Good thing I'm retired. This may take me awhile!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
SHASTA