Pyrodex / Hornady Great Plains ballistics.

[samsmix]

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]

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

 

[4V50 Gary]

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

 

[Jim Watson]

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]

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]

70 gr by volume gives me bulls in my hawking

 

[Colorado Redneck]

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.