44man
01-20-2012, 11:41 AM
A friend got his BFR 45-70 a little while ago and could not find brass so he bought factory cast loads. Good stuff with Starline brass. He could not regulate the open sights so I gave him a higher front sight.
He came and cast a pile of my 378 gr PB and loaded them with my load.
He came out and we got it on at 50 yards, then he was centering water bottles at 100, good with open sights but I had to shade the sun from his front sight. We found the WLP shot as good as the Fed 155. It was COLD out. The only warmth was walking 100 yards!
I got mine with the Ultra Dot adjusted for the same load and had some 1/2" groups but hit right at 100, 2 clicks put me on the bottles.
He wanted to dump the factory loads and we missed the whole target at 50 so we moved to 25. The things were 10" high at 25 but shot some great groups. When he took out the empties over a target on the bench there were piles of unburned powder in each case. Not even discolored.
I seen they had rifle primers and sometimes 3 out of five did not go off the first time, one took 3 hits. Those that did fire had good dents, the failures had a tiny mark. I have no idea the brand. Yet we hit the gong almost every shot at 100 off hand and we had some good groups.
Before he left I went on line to Wolff and he ordered 3, 26# hammer springs.
These things are tack drivers and seem to shoot even rifle stuff beyond what problems we had with them.
He came and cast a pile of my 378 gr PB and loaded them with my load.
He came out and we got it on at 50 yards, then he was centering water bottles at 100, good with open sights but I had to shade the sun from his front sight. We found the WLP shot as good as the Fed 155. It was COLD out. The only warmth was walking 100 yards!
I got mine with the Ultra Dot adjusted for the same load and had some 1/2" groups but hit right at 100, 2 clicks put me on the bottles.
He wanted to dump the factory loads and we missed the whole target at 50 so we moved to 25. The things were 10" high at 25 but shot some great groups. When he took out the empties over a target on the bench there were piles of unburned powder in each case. Not even discolored.
I seen they had rifle primers and sometimes 3 out of five did not go off the first time, one took 3 hits. Those that did fire had good dents, the failures had a tiny mark. I have no idea the brand. Yet we hit the gong almost every shot at 100 off hand and we had some good groups.
Before he left I went on line to Wolff and he ordered 3, 26# hammer springs.
These things are tack drivers and seem to shoot even rifle stuff beyond what problems we had with them.