Finally the weather has cooled a bit and the rain has somewhat stopped long enough for some shooting , the 50 Express rifle load is shooting about as good as it will get I think . The Express sights handle and show good for me , I think any animal that gets within 150 yd. of me and that combo is in serious trouble . The little parts carbine is so handy its getting a bit of shooting /hunting this season also . Have settled on a load that really shoots good in the old gun ,a Winchester mold cast bullet 45-60 @ 300 gr. 61 gr. of Swiss 2ff , Winchester primer , Jamison case all put together with the 45-60 tong tool. That little gun feeds so slick and holds its own at 100 yd. that it is going to be my Jeep gun throughout the hunting season , that means it will get lots of use starting in about two weeks . Guess I have rambled enough , hope all are well and in good health . Adios Amigos . ,,,DT
Hey Dusty
(Probably my last hurrah for a while) Been messing with burnt out pump and empty troughs - daylight till dark sunday and again this morning - finally got it right and - I AM OVER THIS!!! .
Havent shot for a while so pulled out the 76 for a final shoot before I go off to work again .
Ten at 100yards with the new CBE boolit
Had the rifle warmed up good but still dropped the first one a little low then I got three nice clusters - three shots on the left, four in the center, two joining on the right ( I think - not sure which one of those holes got four in but its in there someplace) - the whole thing is 1inch and 5/8th wide x 7/8 inch vertical -- I think those clusters probably what the barrel and load can do and the spread is what I did to it
All shot with no cleaning - blow tube about every third - but I think would do just as well without .
Have settled on this boolit for my target round - its .460dia x 466 grains CBE mold from here in Aus - If you took one base band and lube groove off a Lyman Postell would be almost identical - 72 grains of my FFg powder - 45 thou HDPE plastic wad.
Front band of that boolit just touching the rifling . That round in the picture loads quite comfortably - but much longer it would be tricky to get it in at all - I been pondering on that 90 grain PP load you showed - (man you started something with that one picture!!) - you could proly squash it in the case (Swiss powder) but dunno if the round would still load - might just be too long. Somewhere down the track I will get a chrono on this load of mine - it sounds and feels ok
I made the tang sight on this rifle, and the powder, so am pretty happy with the whole thing.
Was gonna pull the magazine off this girl and proly do it after christmas - relieve that forend wood - may even make a button mag for it (dont really like em but if it would get rid of that walk up the target deal !) its time for some long range work with this setup too.
Well hope you get some fun hunting in the next couple months.
cheers
Greyhawk