45-70 Where is best accuracy found?

[Frank]

You're doing great. With a cast boolit I'm trying to go slower. I want it where I lay it in the rest, it goes "pop" and hits exactly what the crosshairs were on. I can click whereever I want it to go.

[Frank]

Jestergrin says

Ranch Dog 350Gr RNFP GC /Marlin 1895 GS 45-70 100 Yards. Bottom two sighters top three for group.

I'm going to load that. How much H322?

[JesterGrin_1]

Frank I would not shoot my load in a Pistol lol. In the GS it does THUMP lol.

I use the Ranch Dog 350Gr with a Remington Case with 52.OGr of H-322 and a Fed 210 primer. But since not every gun is the same I would try 51.5 52.O and 52.5 and see what you get. But I will add when I make up rounds I sort the Bullets by weight. And the norm is with in 1Gr or less.

Sorry as I have to add this. This load I use for hunting as I do not make low end loads for plinking with this rifle I save that stuff for the .44 Mag and .357 Mag Marlins.

[Frank]

Thanks. I was going to try your load in my Marlin to see what you're doing.

[Frank]

Jester, you're right. It was windy, but 52 grns was good.

[JesterGrin_1]

Frank I am glad you did well with the load. And sorry I am more of a rifle shooter not a pistolero like ole 44Man lol.

As you can tell from post 13 my norm for that load is under 1 in at 100 yards but most of the time 3/4 of an inch or less. BUT I make all of my loads in groups by weight of the bullet within .01Gr.

But since I have changed the type of scope I use the norm is now right at 1 in or a hair over. For the groups I posted I used a standard set up scope of a 3 X 9 but it met my eye one too many times and got tired of blood running down my face lol. So I now use a scout set up with a 2 X 7. And I LIKE IT and my face does as well lol.

But not being a pistolero is all my fault lol. Growing up I never had much use for a pistol of any kind as it was drilled into me that a pistol is something you use when you are saying Oh Sh_T lol. Which means you made many mistakes to get to the point you have to use a pistol then a knife and so on.


Frank I do hope that load did not hurt too much?

[Frank]

Load testing. 28 was like 27. What's with the flier? It was windy, front left to right. I think the bag needed more dusting.

[JesterGrin_1]

Frank I am not sure of your question? But I will say when I have a clean barrel the norm would be to waste the first one or two rounds then shoot for a group. If I am happy with the group and since I am going to hunt with it I do not clean the bore till hunting season is over.

Load testing. 28 was like 27. What's with the flier? It was windy, front left to right. I think the bag needed more dusting.

[JesterGrin_1]

For Hunting I am very happy with the scout scope set up with my 2 X 7 long eye relief pistol scope. You might laugh but it is the NxStar 2 X 7 and it works great. And has held up just fine so far.

[Frank]

I meant my flier. Your groups are great.

[JesterGrin_1]

I meant my flier. Your groups are great.

Frank I understood flyer but you did not mention the load.

But as I said I found from a brand new clean barrel I have had a first round flyer so for the first round from a clean barrel I shoot one or two off of the target. And I let the rifle sit about 3 min between each round when the temp is around 70F.

If I leave the barrel dirty I normally do not have a bad first round flyer in my Marlin 1895GS in 45-70.

But my Marlin 1894SS in .44 Mag I will not even go there lol.