Yesterday afternoon I took my new USFA Sheriff's Special (pictured below) out to the range for a quick check to see how it would perform.
I was actually going with a friend who's going to use a ML rifle of mine on an upcoming Traditional ML Mule Deer hunt that's an extremely limited entry hunt with good potential for a Trophy Buck. Our primary objective was to get the rifle "dialed in" using the bullets that he intended to use, so shooting the Sheriff's SAA was actually a secondary goal.
Prior to this range session, and even shooting this revolver, I changed out the Mainspring and replaced it with a Reduced Power Wolff Mainspring and a wire Heine Trigger/Bolt Spring as well.
I grabbed a box of .45 Colts that I had recently loaded up that used 255g Keith style SWCs atop of my fav load of 8.0g of Unique.
Had I had enough time I would have loaded up some 200g RNFPs that I have here, but that didn't happen.
Starting at 15 feet (probably about double the distance a typical real life gunfight takes place) I was surprisingly able to fire all 6 shots all into a 1-1/2" group, most of them touching, at EXACTLY the Point of Aim.
This was really surprising to me as well as my friend who was along to watch at this point. Using a two hand hold standing, the revolver shot flawlessly punching one hole right on top of the others, shot after shot.
Moving back to 25 feet, again the revolver printed right "on target" at point of aim although my group size opened up to ~4".
We were starting to run low on daylight so only fired one more cylinder full before calling it quits.
This was from 50', and at that distance the first two shots hit ~6" high, so switching to using a 6 o'clock hold on the 12" target, the final 4 shots all printed within 8" around the center of the target.
I had thought of getting a small length of hardwood dowel to use as an ejector rod, but heading to the range 1 day ahead of our original planned shooting date, hadn't managed that yet. At the range I picked up a 4" sliver of wood that had come off of one of the action target's frames that had been hit. That worked fine, but was actually unnecessary to use, as just tilting the revolver up allowed most of the emptys to drop out onto the table.
The knurled headed Base Pin Retaining Screw that's found on this revolver is very easy to use and actually doesn't have to be totally removed out of the frame to allow the Base Pin to be removed to take the Cylinder out. (a traditional slotted BP Frame screw is also supplied)
The Cylinder Base Pin's additional length and knurled section makes grasping the Pin very easy in addtion. The Base Pin can be used as an Ejector Rod, if necessary.
The Sheriff's Special SAA utilizes the Blackpowder Frame without the Ejector Rod lump and also retains the "V" Notch Rear Sight of the originals. I'd never shot an SAA with this configuration sights and wasn't sure how it would be. As it turns out, with adequate light, this sight configuration, while a little different than what I've always been accustomed to, seemed to work just fine.
Also, I've never shot a Colt Bisley SAA and the Bisley Hammer on this model was quite nice to use. Its crisp checkering really gives your thumb a great purchase for cocking.
In conclusion, as a gun designed to represent a "hideout" gun, even with its short barrel, this revolver shot amazingly well. I just wish I could shoot my Snubnosed S&W Mod. 60 this well.
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