dk17hmr
12-20-2006, 02:46 PM
I picked up my buddies 454 Casull today, he gave me 40 rounds and said "have fun you can shoot all these if you want because I am starting over from zero again with my reloads."
His revolver is a 9.5" SBH with a Millet red dot. I dont know exactly what his load is but he said it is a 260gr Speer hollow point at roughly 1800fps.
Well after getting my bench set up at 50 yards and targets stapled onto the target butt, I put ear plugs in and ear muffs on the settled the revolver into the bags and fired the first round....WOW recoil was less then I expected but still not even close to a 357 mag.
He had the bore spotless so after a full cylinder to get it good and fouled I was shooting something that looked like a group. On the second cylinder I shot 2 3 shot groups, both about 2 3/4"....I dont know how good that is but for never shooting this revolver or a big bore much for that matter, I think I did pretty good.
I built a 50 pound buffalo target out of 3/8" steel plate in high school shop, I set that guy up and hit him about where you would shoot a deer, tight shoulder area, before I settled back from the recoil he was flatted right down about like hitting him with one of the hotter 500gr loads from my 45-70.
I have only shot 17 rounds so far and I know if I could build my own load the groups would be smaller. Only thing I dont like about the revolver is the scope, I think if it were mine it would wear a crosshair scope of some type.
His revolver is a 9.5" SBH with a Millet red dot. I dont know exactly what his load is but he said it is a 260gr Speer hollow point at roughly 1800fps.
Well after getting my bench set up at 50 yards and targets stapled onto the target butt, I put ear plugs in and ear muffs on the settled the revolver into the bags and fired the first round....WOW recoil was less then I expected but still not even close to a 357 mag.
He had the bore spotless so after a full cylinder to get it good and fouled I was shooting something that looked like a group. On the second cylinder I shot 2 3 shot groups, both about 2 3/4"....I dont know how good that is but for never shooting this revolver or a big bore much for that matter, I think I did pretty good.
I built a 50 pound buffalo target out of 3/8" steel plate in high school shop, I set that guy up and hit him about where you would shoot a deer, tight shoulder area, before I settled back from the recoil he was flatted right down about like hitting him with one of the hotter 500gr loads from my 45-70.
I have only shot 17 rounds so far and I know if I could build my own load the groups would be smaller. Only thing I dont like about the revolver is the scope, I think if it were mine it would wear a crosshair scope of some type.