Has anybody tried Trail Boss in the .308 Win. with cast boolits in the 170 to 180g range? If so, I would appreciate your sharing your results.
Trail Boss in .308 Win.
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i use 12 gr TB w/180 bullets thru a can. works great
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I tried 12g of Trail Boss with a NOE 311-165 in a .308 Winchester MDL 11 Savage and got a 10 shot group of around 2 inches at 100 yards. There was 2 shooters involved in the 10 shot group. My son fired 5 shots and then I fired five shots. We each had a flyer and eliminating those two shots the 8 shot group measured 1.7" This load needs to be tried again, but this time with a Lee clone of Lyman's 311041.
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I used Trail Boss yesterday in CBA competition in my Savage mdl 11 and found it to be very inconsistent. I would get flyers out in the 3 ring right after putting 2 or three into the 9 or 10 rings! 1 ten shot agg was 5 inches and the other was 2.75 inches. My score was only 147 due to several hitting the 3 ring! My 5 shot groups were mostly all over 3 inches. Interesting but frustrating day! Only consolation was there were guys shooting AR platform rounds with cast boolits that did even more poorly!
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This may not be relevant, but I tried Trail Boss in a 223 with 80 grain CBs. The variation in muzzle velocity both ES and SD were the smallest of any powder I had tried. But I couldn't get it to shoot decent groups. Maybe too different from 45 Colt.
John
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Another case of ES and SD having little to do with accuracy, except for very long range where bullet drop is greater than group size.
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