the other DWS
11-29-2009, 05:52 PM
christmas came early for me and Santa must have subcontracted his intelligence service to the CIA this year 'cause I got 2 new rifles and a new bow.
I've been posting and asking about my ML/ percussion schuetzen rifle in the BP forum; now I'm asking abut loads for my new litttle ruger 44M lever carbine. I KNOW, or I've been told plenty of times elsewhere, that this is is short range minute-of-deer. brush gun and to be happy with 4 or 5 inch groups at 100 yards. It's got a crappy trigger pull (which should be fixable) and the stock is one only Ruger's cost accountant could love. however I've gotten 3 and 4 inch groups with several kinds of factory 240 gr JHPs.
Problem is my cast handloads are all over the place and hitting a good foot low. I suspect that I need to do some case trimming and sorting and work on crrimp/neck tension. I have done a whole bunch of 44m shooting out of my custom 4" Redhawk but 44m in rifles is new to me.
I'm fish'n for any advice or suggestions for good ACCURATE bullets/loads out of rifle/carbine length barrels. Since a lot of states have opened up previously-shotgun-only areas to pistol calibre rifles I'd think there'd be a real onflux of 44M rifle loads.
I've been posting and asking about my ML/ percussion schuetzen rifle in the BP forum; now I'm asking abut loads for my new litttle ruger 44M lever carbine. I KNOW, or I've been told plenty of times elsewhere, that this is is short range minute-of-deer. brush gun and to be happy with 4 or 5 inch groups at 100 yards. It's got a crappy trigger pull (which should be fixable) and the stock is one only Ruger's cost accountant could love. however I've gotten 3 and 4 inch groups with several kinds of factory 240 gr JHPs.
Problem is my cast handloads are all over the place and hitting a good foot low. I suspect that I need to do some case trimming and sorting and work on crrimp/neck tension. I have done a whole bunch of 44m shooting out of my custom 4" Redhawk but 44m in rifles is new to me.
I'm fish'n for any advice or suggestions for good ACCURATE bullets/loads out of rifle/carbine length barrels. Since a lot of states have opened up previously-shotgun-only areas to pistol calibre rifles I'd think there'd be a real onflux of 44M rifle loads.