doghawg
02-02-2011, 05:17 PM
I WAS planning to peddle this gun and replace it with a BFR chambered in .500 JRH. So I went to the range to burn up the .500 S&W ammo I had loaded. One of the loads was the 400 gr. RCBS (408 gr. from WW's) over 11.5 gr. of Unique with a Win. LR primer. Velocity averaged 1006 fps. This was at 25 yards. I didn't paper it at 50...it was 17 degrees and windy...but the load hit the same spot on the swinger each shot.
This gun does equally well with 350 XTP's at 1650 fps or 425 LFNGC's at 1300. Maybe I"ll regret selling it???
http://www.myhostedpics.com/images/565apple/andyspics2011014medium.jpg
My beef with the long frame is the amount of "freebore" for the .500 cartridge. This same bullet at 1250 fps gave me some nasty forcing cone leading but I didn't try water dropping yet. This pic shows how far the bullet has to go to hit rifling.
http://www.myhostedpics.com/images/565apple/andyspics2011016medium.jpg
This gun does equally well with 350 XTP's at 1650 fps or 425 LFNGC's at 1300. Maybe I"ll regret selling it???
http://www.myhostedpics.com/images/565apple/andyspics2011014medium.jpg
My beef with the long frame is the amount of "freebore" for the .500 cartridge. This same bullet at 1250 fps gave me some nasty forcing cone leading but I didn't try water dropping yet. This pic shows how far the bullet has to go to hit rifling.
http://www.myhostedpics.com/images/565apple/andyspics2011016medium.jpg