jeepyj
04-07-2013, 08:48 PM
First off I would like to thank the powers that be for this great website. I have been searching / researching for a cast boolit that would shoot consistent through my blackhawk for the better part of 30 years off and on. As we all know we gather knowledge for our interests and apply that knowledge to gain experience to become proficient but we don't always obtain the results that we desire. Sometimes we simply don't understand why. For me, more or less until now this has been the case with my Ruger Blackhawk. While I've never had any problems with the jword bullets but I've struggled with the cast boolits. Well after lurking and reading then joining in and still reading and all the while testing and re-testing. I came to the conclusion that I simple had the wrong boolit.
The original problem started many years ago when I was sold a casting setup by a local shop. Well thinking of it now and looking back I think over all the basic mould and sizer should have been okay but just was a but to small for that old piece of iron. The original mould was a single hole Lyman 357443 and the sizer was a .357". All the boolits that it dropped were to small for my gun after using a mic they measured .356-.357 the sizer did basically nothing except to add lube. Finally after trying different lube, a different crimp ring I read about swedging the the barrel and and it all started to come together I simply needed a bigger bullet.
Well thanks again to this wonderful site I put a WTB in for a 358477 and had a reply within a very short time and I already had a .358 sizer. 24 hours after receiving the testing started and now after the weekend the official test results are in...picture #1 is my cast boolits, Pictures #2 and #3 are some of the groups at 60 feet
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The last was after tweaking the sight a bit.
Thanks again for a great place to hang out, learn and deal with genuine good people.
Jeepyj
PS spelling and grammar not quite my strong point but I think I get my sediments across
The original problem started many years ago when I was sold a casting setup by a local shop. Well thinking of it now and looking back I think over all the basic mould and sizer should have been okay but just was a but to small for that old piece of iron. The original mould was a single hole Lyman 357443 and the sizer was a .357". All the boolits that it dropped were to small for my gun after using a mic they measured .356-.357 the sizer did basically nothing except to add lube. Finally after trying different lube, a different crimp ring I read about swedging the the barrel and and it all started to come together I simply needed a bigger bullet.
Well thanks again to this wonderful site I put a WTB in for a 358477 and had a reply within a very short time and I already had a .358 sizer. 24 hours after receiving the testing started and now after the weekend the official test results are in...picture #1 is my cast boolits, Pictures #2 and #3 are some of the groups at 60 feet
667376673866739
The last was after tweaking the sight a bit.
Thanks again for a great place to hang out, learn and deal with genuine good people.
Jeepyj
PS spelling and grammar not quite my strong point but I think I get my sediments across