richhodg66
04-24-2016, 08:38 PM
Been working on a cheap .357 Plinking load that will use a large quantity of fast burning powder I got for free. Tried it so far in thre revolvers, the forst two shot it pretty well.
I have one that had some considerable work done on it at one time by a previous owner including barrel porting. All the work was professionally done, the timing and trigger pull are perfect, it ought to be a great shooter, but never has shot very well with anything, but to be honest, I haven't shot it much because I lose interest in it and want to shoot others.
Today it shot groups that were three to four times as big as the other two, exact same load under exactly the same conditions. In fact, about a third of the shots key holed.
I'm about to give up on it. I'll probably load up some jacketed loads to try at some point, but I'm not gonna have a revolver that has to use jacketed. It's a six-inch, so I guess there's always the option of having the barrel cut off and making it a 4 5/8".
Thoughts?
I have one that had some considerable work done on it at one time by a previous owner including barrel porting. All the work was professionally done, the timing and trigger pull are perfect, it ought to be a great shooter, but never has shot very well with anything, but to be honest, I haven't shot it much because I lose interest in it and want to shoot others.
Today it shot groups that were three to four times as big as the other two, exact same load under exactly the same conditions. In fact, about a third of the shots key holed.
I'm about to give up on it. I'll probably load up some jacketed loads to try at some point, but I'm not gonna have a revolver that has to use jacketed. It's a six-inch, so I guess there's always the option of having the barrel cut off and making it a 4 5/8".
Thoughts?