Dorado
08-16-2012, 04:35 PM
I have a Marlin 1894 in .357mag that I've been using for CAS. I'm going to start hunting with it so I've made up a couple of loads for it. I'm shooting a 160gr RNFP WW boolit over 14gr of 2400. I'm not getting any pressure signs on the brass so I'm sure it's safe. My question comes to this. How fast is this going?
It's pretty accurate, I had 5 rounds in a clover leaf at about 50 yards. I don't have any excess leading or keyholed hits. And I'm getting insane penetration. I set a 5 gallon bucket full of dirt on its side and shot it end to end. My boolits exited leaving a massive hole in the rear. So that means that they went through over a foot of dirt and still had the energy to embed themselves into the back of the ditch. I recovered one out of the twenty I tried. It got me to thinking. In my manual it showed that this should be traveling at just under 1700 fps. I don't have access to a Cronograph or I'd use one. How fast do y'all think it's going?
It's pretty accurate, I had 5 rounds in a clover leaf at about 50 yards. I don't have any excess leading or keyholed hits. And I'm getting insane penetration. I set a 5 gallon bucket full of dirt on its side and shot it end to end. My boolits exited leaving a massive hole in the rear. So that means that they went through over a foot of dirt and still had the energy to embed themselves into the back of the ditch. I recovered one out of the twenty I tried. It got me to thinking. In my manual it showed that this should be traveling at just under 1700 fps. I don't have access to a Cronograph or I'd use one. How fast do y'all think it's going?