The continuing saga.........
Well, I picked up a 2nd ROA, so now I have a pair.
On the 4th of July I took them and shoot my 1st all dark match. (OK cringe now, but I have a mess of pryodex that I'm trying to use up before I get the REAL STUFF) Had my pair of ROA's, Uberti 73 in 44-40, an a TNN 12 dbl. Had an absolute ball. Though I came in 24 out of 28, I had a clean shoot!.well I didnt miss, and came in number 1 in the fun department.
I used Dick Dasterdly's ROA 210 grain mold with spg lube and about 32 pryodex P and CCI #11
OK I'll be changing to Remmington's 10. the #11 were a little squirly at times as to fit and the cap spawling off and trying to jam up the works after firing. I did size the 201's in an RCBS sizer .454 dia with SPG like the instructions that came with Dicks Mold. Noticed a little difficulty in getting the bases to go into the cylinders, but I attribute that to (1) nimble fingers, (2) alloy in casting being pure lead so I figure there was some base expansion when I sized (3) had a couple of chanbers in the cylinder that looked like it had a small bur or ding that interfeared.
Thinking about taking the cylinders and having the open end of the chambers slightly camfered about 2 or 3 thousands of an inch to allow the base to fit. On experimentation after the match and after the guns were clean, I took several bullets and trial fitted before any sizing, and they slipped right in, no muss, no fuss, up to the expansion shoulder. Overally performance was great. I really like these, and with using the big lube bullets, I didnt have to mess with bore butter or any other greassy, messy stuff.
I know this is the RATS forum, but I really like the 44-40 with black. There was virtually no blow by or crap left in the reciever area of my uberty 73 carbine. Functioned flawslessly. I use the lyman 200 grain 427666 bullet with SPG. (Sorry Dick, but I got that one before I discovered Big Lube Bullets), It does have a large center lube grove, not a big as DD's but it worked ok.
Gotta work on the shotgun loads. Have magtech's 12 gage brass ones. Used 70 grains of pryodex RS, cardboard wad, Felt 3/4 in wad soaked in bore butter, cardboard wad, 7/8 ounce #7 shot, top card board wad, elmers wood glue. That was the combination. Was my 1st black shot gun load. Overall performance we mediocre. There were several knock downs that didn;t seam to have the umpf to knock over the targets. Plus very little recoil. My 1st reaction was not enough powder. I had someone tell me to cut back on powder?
? go figure. The story line was with the felt ballet in the shel as the felt exited the brass shell, and no real chamber cut into the barrel, there was a split micro second that the hot gasses from the powder blow past the wad and causes a lot in speed varriations and thus loss of power. Gotta play with that one.
All in all, looking foreward to my next one!!!!!!