Good info Steve.
And Lar45; that comment about the water dropped lead has been in the back of my head for some time. Guys I've spoken to personally have told me similar things of that nature. I...
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Forum: Hunting with CB's
Good info Steve.
And Lar45; that comment about the water dropped lead has been in the back of my head for some time. Guys I've spoken to personally have told me similar things of that nature. I...
Were your loads in magnum brass or special?
I have an order of 220 cutting edge solids coming & Longshot is one of the Powders I plan to work some tests with. Actually going to give those bullets...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I read the answers Poppy. Yours included. This is a forum, intended to make conversation on the topics at hand and that is all I was shooting to do by making thiis Thread Post. To start a...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
That's interesting either way. 45-70 should damn near knock one off its feet, smash every bone in the way and still kill another one behind that if there was a couple lined up. That's a big hunk of...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Appreciate the comments so far. Gemsbok & Kudu are pretty tough animals. Those bullets were probably around 10bnh if any of my tests were accurate on my own air cooled wheelweights.. I don't think...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I started casting and powder coating my own bullets a little over a year ago now. Up to that point I had a fellow nearby casting & lubing the traditional way for me (but he sold out, retired and is...
Generally, I find 25 yards is best for a zero. Myself.
That way ammo at 15 yards will still hit pop cans & such for playing and practice. And 50 yards (should) be just a couple inches low if you...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
About the comments on arrows, I'd agree that the indians had to have known where to put them and probably had more than one brave slinging arrows at them at one time to get it done back in the early...
What were your velocities chronographed at vs what Larry's data showed through the long contender barrel?
Don't feel too out of place Bisley.. I have a 97 44special, and have put every load in the book through it, proven ones from other guns and new ones trying to tailor the thing specifically for that...
My post #14 was made with stronger guns in mind, certified for 21,000psi ACP pressures. The original post said n-frame and I assumed the n frames being done as mag's and modern chamberings. So keep...
Ryan,
I shoot 6.5gr Unique with the RCBS 230cm in cowboy special brass for 950fps through a 5.5" Colt. Goes 1000fps through a 7.5" barrel. And I understand that to be a standard pressure load...
Wile & Scrum..
Appreciate your comments. There was a time about 10 years ago that I was in the same boat as you guys, no available 2400 to be found, but a similar burn-rate N110 in ample supply....
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?410374-44-SPL-the-RCBS-44-250-KT-and-VV-N110
N110 is a terrific powder for high end 44-special.. take a look at this previous thread about...
There's been more 41mag ammo regularly stocked in the stores I frequent than 44mag, or 44special. Been that way for years. Believe it or not, some places its as easy to walk in and find as what...
VvN110 is the very best unsung powder there is in 41's & 44's... it's cleaner, faster and makes a lower pressure max-load than 2400 by a sizeable margin.
16.0gr in a 41special with an NOE-255 wfn...
Power Pistol is an awesome powder.. might say it's the modern day new & improved version of what Unique was back in the day when it was somewhat new. Except Power Pistol does the same thing, in...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
I'll mirror what most others have already said.. awesome hunt
One day if the funds are ever there, and Covid ever clears, I'd love to do a handgun trip to Africa "much" like yours. Great to be...
Single action Colt barrels are absolutely better designed for handling recoil exertion than Ruger.. several smith's in the States have added a recoil pin underneath the ejector housings to assist in...
Been a number of weeks since I started this thread, and I've since settled on a great load in the SA I was referring these measurements all to. Larry as usual was onto something with his discussion...
I don't know how it would compare to your specific 255, but I just finished some load development in cowboy brass with an accurate moulds SWC weighing basically 250grains that's very similar to the...
Forum: Leverguns
How fast do those 8.0gr unique loads with 250/260grainers shoot over a chrony?
Rock Island had one of the 13 Winchesters available from an 1876 centennial presentation, upon which Winchester wished to enter the revolver market. This sale was from 2019 if anyone wishes to look...
Points all taken.. Larry & Outpost alike.
I hadn't considered the old balloon head brass likely playing its part in that old '58 cast manual that says 7.5grains unique. That point makes good...
I tend to agree with the reach for 41's & 44's when "big business" loads are on the menu, exactly the same as most here have also said. And I certainly don't mean to come across as desiring...
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