Picked up a new Betsy

Started by Roscoe Coles, October 08, 2021, 11:02:25 PM

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Drydock

Ordered and received an MVA Combination/Beach sight.  Installation was easy thanks to my Wyoming Sight Drifter https://www.wyomingsightdrifter.com/    highly recommended if you mess around with dovetailed or friction fit anything.  I had ordered a .378 sight based on my best guess, it was a little loose, but peening down the dovetail edges produced a nice tight fit.  Probably should have got the .385, but this appears to work fine.  Being a round barrel helps.  It produced an excellent sight picture, far better than the original post and bead. 
Civilize them with a Krag . . .

Pitspitr

Quote from: Drydock on October 17, 2021, 02:57:54 PM
Took it out to the farm today: OE and Triple 7 carbine loads.  The 8 groove H&R rifling prefers the 777, though both loads shot into 3" at 100 yards off the bench. 
I played with some Blackhorn 209 earlier this winter in my new (to me) muzzleloading abomination (scope sighted and black plastic) I  might have to try making a 55 gr load with that for the H&R
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Drydock

Put 21 rounds of 45-70 thru my H&R this afternoon, loaded with 47 grains (By weight) 2f 777.  Getting the sights readjusted.  Nice tight 3 shot* groups at 200 yards, no cleaning until I went home.  That just fills a Starline case to the base of an Accurate 46-405c bullet.  Been running around 3 moa bench rested.  Good stuff in the H&R barrel.

I would prefer real black, but the H&R has made it clear this is what it wants.





*Steel  plate at 200 yards.  Shoot 3 rounds, walk to the plate, paint over, walk back, adjust, shoot 3 more shots, repeat.  Good exercise.

Civilize them with a Krag . . .

Drydock

Ran the OM at the Indiana Muster this weekend.  Whole match with the above loads, no cleaning, no loss of accuracy or any other problems.  Great fun.
Civilize them with a Krag . . .

Drydock

Ran the OM HARD at the Atlantic Muster.  Every shot hit steel.  This is a great set up for skirmishing.
Civilize them with a Krag . . .

Blackpowder Burn

Lee is a great guy.  Really friendly and makes great products and is an excellent gunsmith for all the vintage rifles.  I have 4 of his sights - 3 economy soule and 1 super grade soule.  Love them.........
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