Never gets old

[Brad]

Good shooting guns and loads just never get old.
Went to the range today with Khornet and did some shooting with the 44 mag SRH. Took me 5 rounds to readjust the scope to 100 from 200 yards then I shot these five.

Total group is just under 3 inches but 4 go into an inch.

This is an awesome load for busting clays on the 100 yard berm. This is just plain fun to shoot.

 

[Rick]

Fine shooting! Remember whenever anyone tells you that you can't do that with a revolver the proper answer is a good old fashioned belly laugh. It's even funnier when they say that cast bullets can't do it and if your using cast in a revolver all you'll do is ruin your bore.

It ain't a real gun if it ain't a wheel gun.

 

[smokeywolf]

Real nice Brad. With me, the gun may be able to do that, but I serously doubt that I still can.

 

[Brad]

Real nice Brad. With me, the gun may be able to do that, but I serously doubt that I still can.

Don't underestimate yourself. I wouldn't have imagined dong that well a year ago. I put my mind to it and asked Rick lots of questions.
So much of doing is believing. Once we decide it isn't possible it likely isn't.

 

[waco]

Nice shooting Brad.

 

[Ian]

Wow, you're really getting the hang of it now. Three of five in the same hole is impressive.

 

[Brad]

I am looking at mounts for my BH in 30 carbine now. I figure that with a scope on it I can really see what it can do. I will likely need to find the right bullet but if nothing else the recoil is easy to handle, if I can get it to recoil.

The 44 mag is a 50 round max gun for me right now. After that I get just shaky enough to make groups larger. It is more fatigue than anything.

 

[35 shooter]

VERY NICE shooting indeed...sure makes me wish i still had my old mod. 29. or maybe a SRH, or a BH!!!

 

[Brad]

Go SRH! They are heavy and ugly but built to last forever and they shoot great.
I have always wondered if a 29 would last if fed loads like this long run. This load shoots a 300 gr cast bullet at just over 1300 fps from a 7.5 inch barrel.
The SRH is also set up for easy scope mounting.

 

[Rick]

I have always wondered if a 29 would last if fed loads like this long run. This load shoots a 300 gr cast bullet at just over 1300 fps from a 7.5 inch barrel.

Pretty doubtful, fairly rare to see S&W around the long range matches. Many are accurate enough but they have the reputation of shooting loose quickly with continued full house loads.

 

[Brad]

That is what I have always heard.

 

[35 shooter]

The Rugers are much stronger for hot loads and longevity no doubt....built like tanks!
I was looking very hard at a BH in the Hunter model not long ago. This is making me think about it again lol.

 

[waco]

I run a few 429421's over 296/H10 or 2400 on rare occasion in my 29-5. It mostly sees the same bullet or a 250gr Accurate slug over 8-10gr of Unique.
I save most the heavy loads for my SBH.

 

[Pistolero]

Remember that all Elmer really wanted was a 240 gr Keith at 1200 fps. My most common
.44 Mag load is 10 gr of Unique, which throws my 250 Keiths at ~1100 from my 6" guns,
so really just a half step below what Elmer really was looking for. So, really most of the
heavy and hot loads are beyond the original concept. Heavy loads are not bad, but not necessary to
feel too wimpy for dropping back half a step. I'm not sure how much difference there
would really be in anything on this continent hit with a 240 at 1200 or a 250 at 1100.
4" guns run more like 1050.

Of course, Remington had to push it up, IIRC the original swaged/GC 240 SWC ammo went
about 1400 fps from a 7.5"bbl. Very hot stuff.

Bill

 

[fiver]

those hunters are scary accurate, I have one in 41 mag and It makes me look good.
I looked forever for a new one in 45 colt,

Brad you ain't gonna get recoil from the 30 carbine revolver.
they will shoot super flat and accurate enough though.
I popped a rock-chuck at about 120yds with mine using a 32-20 load and a 98 gr boolit. [and killed a deer at 70yds with it a few years back]
been using cut down and blown out 32-20 brass and 313 sized boolis in mine for a long time now.
I hated trying to get 30 carbine brass to work and give me a repeatable headspace.
OHHhh look at square-B for the scope mount.

 

[Brad]

Square B? Did you mean B square? If so, I can't find any of them anywhere.
I see a Weaver no drill mount available, I may look at it. Recoil certainly won't be an issue.
I have an MP 311410 mould on the way. I have lots of 30 carbine brass I can use but I will also try the 32-20 brass. I have plenty of that too.

 

[Rick]

I use 32-20 brass also, I'm just too lazy to not use the rimmed case. Had mine drilled/tapped for the mount & have a red dot on it.

 

[Brad]

I am thinking of either the Weaver no drill or a drill and tap. My father has a drill press, I don't know how hard the steel is. Drilling and tapping wouldn't be a big problem for me.

I need to do some messing with this revolver. I just measured the throats with my newly acquired pin gauges. Looks like a .308 bullet is what it will want.

32-20 is easy and I have it set up for loading on the Dillon to speed things up a bit.

Anyone else have trouble with GI carbine brass being difficult to chamber? Mine doesn't seem to like it but I was also using a .313 bullet and it might have been too snug at the case mouth.

Fiver is right on one thing, these revolvers shoot flat.

 

[fiver]

I think the issue is the case is tapered.
if you go big with the thicker brass you take that taper out.

I had to trim back the 32-20 brass but figuring the length is easy enough, I just stuck the bottom of my caliper down in the cylinders and took a reading then went [airc] .005 short.
and no 25-20 brass won't work, the rims are too thick.

 

[Brad]

I made a .308+ sizer today. That lets me seat a 311316 long enough to be in the throats and still chamber fully. That will a dirty cylinder.
No wonder I played hell with this revolver in the past, I was trying to shove a .313 bullet I to a .309 hole. Duh.

I wish I woulda learned all this sooner.