Originally Posted by
beefyz
Thanks to all for comments. I see most of you, like me, have had much experimentation with this rifle to find something that works, so i don't feel too bad about my efforts. Thats suppossed to be the fun of reloading, right? Forget to mention that i was shooting only 158s at 50yds & I single load using the iron sights, and yes, at my age this might also give me some problems, but it got worse ONLY with this rifle, hence all the questions. I shoot fine w/open sights using the John C, carbine, dirty-30, 32-20, & 25-35.
I was quite surprised by some of you with success in using the lightweight 125,130, 140s etc. Few yrs back in surfing this column I remember one fellow mentioned "lighter boolits DO NOT grp well in his Rossi (?). So from that time i simply avoided the lighter boolits. Same fellow rec 180s >1,700 so i assumed that meant GCs, which i wasn't considering at the time. Full Tang above doesn't rec 180s at all, but i will experiment with the lighter offerings. Ironically had some 180s at one point and got the beginning of a grping but didn't pursue it as i was intent on staying with the numerous options in 158s. In addition, some of you are using GCs; i'm open to that, as i would like to feel i'm not shooting a .22 all the time. I'd like to try 4227 & 4756 ; around 13.8/14.3 w/158RN in .357, still researching w/4756. Or 2400 @ 13.5 w/158RN using wsp and then some 180s 11.5-12.3 again w/wsp. Anyone try theses combos? Ringtinglen..."i have not had good luck with plain base boolits. Patterns, not groups were the result". hahahah , are we related ? "I really haven't found an accurate combination using .357 brass that will run below 1400 fps in my 1:30 twist Rossi"; I guess this statement best sums it up for me. Thanks again, I will continue to experiment, heeding your advices, and will get back with the results ....