Marshall Will did you get that sampling of boolits yet? and have you used any? Unlike LIT I am not going to find 200 rounds stuck in behind the shelve...I need to load my bride some
All I got so far is the Desperado sample. I already have some Big Lube bullets. Now I have two more samples coming. Penn bullet is going to send a sample yet. Bear Creek is still in business so I have some .454's coming from them but they may be a while in the coming since I ordered them from the local shop. When I have everything here, I'll load a good sampling of each one and go try them all together. That will take care of one of the three issues I've been having with my accuracy.
Issue #two is also taken care of. Today I'm trying a stronger prescription contact in my right eye. So far, it is really great.
Issue #three is the front sights. I need to do something to make them more visible. I think I may need to change to brass blades, made from coins or something else historically correct. Hey, Del, you have any suggestions on what I could do to make sights I can see in all lighting conditions?
Hell, ain’t shot it ‘nuff ta know whether I like it er not. Had a Handi Rifle in .223 I used fer a plinker. It was fun. Sent it off for a 45-70 refit. Pretty nice but I sold it ‘n bought the Buff. Me ‘n Veeb were gonna go ta Creeds ta shoot the ‘assault’ rifles ‘n I was gonna carry it along but we never got there.
Will, we shoot no more than a hundred yards at the places I shoot. I wanted a flat top Marbles mounted on the barrel about like the Marlin Cowboy. Ain’t a problem hittin’ at a hundred with that. Reckon me ‘n the machinist got our wires crossed ‘n he dovetailed it at the breech. Didn’t look at it ‘til I got it home ‘n was gonna take it back but since I’ve seen a couple others done that way so I wanna try it as is. Pretty sure it’s gonna need a taller front sight.
I put a taller front one on my match rifle since it never gets shot at any distance to speak of. The BuffC is an unknown. We shoot maybe up to 200 around here. I'll have to figure something out.
I had one of the older ones, had a 22 inch barrel and the cleaning rod under the barrel back in the early 80's, think they called it a Shirika or something like that, swapped it to Dad for him a deer rifle and he got rid of it when he got his 243 pump. Been around several of the H&r break action rifles, brother owns my old Hornet, they all shot got that I know of. I know there have been some problems with the 38-55's but that's cause the specs for that round is all over the map. Only thing I don't like about them is trigger, but they ain't that bad, just like good triggers.
Mine is in 38-55 but I think I either got one of the good ones or fell into a good load the first time out. I can shoot nice, tight groups for the first 50 shots until it leads up. Couldn't tell you what vintage it is because I bought it used maybe 5 years ago. It's marked W&H so if you know when they made those, that'd give you some idea.