Originally Posted by
bushka
Cool, what rifle and sights will you be using? 1" groups sounds like scope territory.Looks like you have a Miller or Haas action in your avatar?
38-55 is a beauty to load for.
Generally I cobble my loads together in the hide hunters fashion,seems to work.
I do better this way then the guys shooting Garands at 50 yards.
the bullet pulls I guesstimate at maybe 3-5 lbs just thumbseating on fired cases.
My Borchardt military model 45-70 did a 6 shot 2" group at 100yds ,open blade and groove, which generally suck as far as sights go,but it did a little better with
preloaded sized cartridges by half,was like an inch,but dammitt-forgot the load!
nextup I will try the same loads,preloaded and loaded out into the throat,
using the breech block to seat them in.maybe some cream o wheat too.