Harter66
08-30-2014, 08:39 PM
And while I now wear glasses full time I had my 1st reminder about things going wrong . It wasn't a big deal but ........ ;
A buddy called and asked if I wanted to try out his brand new 300WSM . I'm not about to pass up a chance to see if a lefty X bolt Browning is any good . So I grabbed up some of my BP stuff I've had for a couple of months and the ol TC Hawken and off we go.
The WSM shoots fine and despite the 150s advertised at nearly 2300fps in a rifle considerably lighter (by feel we didn't actually weigh it) it was not unpleasant to shoot.
More to the point now. I ran through an 1858 Remmy 36 and an 1873 Colts percussion 44 to get the cobwebs off the trigger controls. I the got out the TC and dumped a load of screened home powder in it and rammed a Lyman Maxi home . All went well except the Maxi landed a foot low at 100 , but that's OK since it was sighted for PRB and FFG . So I loaded another round set up and letter'rip.
115000
That little boo boo is from a cap fragment about the length and width of the cap skirt. First if I weren't cross dominant my right hand wouldn't have had it's thumb up in front of the lock but probably fingers instead. That cut goes all the way down to the ligaments and was neatly cauterized around the lodged copper chunk . While a lefty rifle and parts location would deflect caps away from your face I know I'm not alone in sometimes shooting a righty gun on the left. I also have no doubt that had the fragment gone back instead of forward that the new tattoo would be on my face not my thumb and that the eye would have been cut even through the lid.
The 2nd shot went 3 inches left w / no hammer lift on 130 volume gr measured of the home screened powder where FFg Pyro at 80 gr with the Maxi would half cock the hammer on the 2nd shot. This group though cut short by the cut thumb was closer to what I have expected from rifle. .
A buddy called and asked if I wanted to try out his brand new 300WSM . I'm not about to pass up a chance to see if a lefty X bolt Browning is any good . So I grabbed up some of my BP stuff I've had for a couple of months and the ol TC Hawken and off we go.
The WSM shoots fine and despite the 150s advertised at nearly 2300fps in a rifle considerably lighter (by feel we didn't actually weigh it) it was not unpleasant to shoot.
More to the point now. I ran through an 1858 Remmy 36 and an 1873 Colts percussion 44 to get the cobwebs off the trigger controls. I the got out the TC and dumped a load of screened home powder in it and rammed a Lyman Maxi home . All went well except the Maxi landed a foot low at 100 , but that's OK since it was sighted for PRB and FFG . So I loaded another round set up and letter'rip.
115000
That little boo boo is from a cap fragment about the length and width of the cap skirt. First if I weren't cross dominant my right hand wouldn't have had it's thumb up in front of the lock but probably fingers instead. That cut goes all the way down to the ligaments and was neatly cauterized around the lodged copper chunk . While a lefty rifle and parts location would deflect caps away from your face I know I'm not alone in sometimes shooting a righty gun on the left. I also have no doubt that had the fragment gone back instead of forward that the new tattoo would be on my face not my thumb and that the eye would have been cut even through the lid.
The 2nd shot went 3 inches left w / no hammer lift on 130 volume gr measured of the home screened powder where FFg Pyro at 80 gr with the Maxi would half cock the hammer on the 2nd shot. This group though cut short by the cut thumb was closer to what I have expected from rifle. .