Birthday present from the family
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- 2ndovc
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Birthday present from the family
Got out for a few rounds this morning. Only had one box of lite handloads, everything else I have is for stronger actions.
Hit's a couple inches high at twenty yards. Load was 6 grains of unique with a 250 gr. LRN. Going to try upping that to 6.5 on the Unique as see what that does. Action is pretty stiff but I'll bet a couple hundred rounds will smooth that right out.
Cimarron 1871 Richards Type II conversion in .45 Colt.
Looking forward to spending more time with it. It's a blast to shoot!
jb
Hit's a couple inches high at twenty yards. Load was 6 grains of unique with a 250 gr. LRN. Going to try upping that to 6.5 on the Unique as see what that does. Action is pretty stiff but I'll bet a couple hundred rounds will smooth that right out.
Cimarron 1871 Richards Type II conversion in .45 Colt.
Looking forward to spending more time with it. It's a blast to shoot!
jb
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Very nice.
Re: Birthday present from the family
Very nice
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Re: Birthday present from the family
I love those. A couple years back I got to make a holster for an original that belongs to a friend.
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Very interesting. Never have seen one.
Re: Birthday present from the family
A "Notch In The Hammer" back sight? That's an easy POI fix, right?
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- 2ndovc
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Yes, the rear sight is in the hammer but I'm going to experiment w/ different loads.
That should solve the problem.
jb
That should solve the problem.
jb
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Nice one. Not a top-break , but an old enough design to interest me.
I think it's only a matter of time before I have one of those...
FYI, I much prefer Universal (aka Universal Clays) versus Unique; I find it burns somewhat cleaner, and is a smidge more accurate and less powder-position-sensitive in lighter reloads. Some older fellas at the range turned me onto it for those reasons years ago, and I found they were right.
Tight groups.
Old No7
I think it's only a matter of time before I have one of those...
FYI, I much prefer Universal (aka Universal Clays) versus Unique; I find it burns somewhat cleaner, and is a smidge more accurate and less powder-position-sensitive in lighter reloads. Some older fellas at the range turned me onto it for those reasons years ago, and I found they were right.
Tight groups.
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Awesome, grats on getting it, been wanting one myself for years.
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Nice gift! Won't take much more speed to drop it that amount.2ndovc wrote:Yes, the rear sight is in the hammer but I'm going to experiment w/ different loads.
That should solve the problem.
jb
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Nice.
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Reckon you got a good family, they done you good with a fine sixgun.
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Re: Birthday present from the family
drop down in bullet weight as you up the fps...
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Re: Birthday present from the family
That's lovely. I recently converted one of my 1860 Armies to 45 LC. 'Course I'm shooting black in it and it's a blast! (that's for Blaine)
The instructions said to get out your dremel with a sanding wheel and spend an afternoon cutting the loading channel. I took it to the mill and spent 10 minutes on a set-up and 10 on the cut and it was done. At some point I'll cut the barrel off and dovetail a front sight on it. About 5 inches?
The instructions said to get out your dremel with a sanding wheel and spend an afternoon cutting the loading channel. I took it to the mill and spent 10 minutes on a set-up and 10 on the cut and it was done. At some point I'll cut the barrel off and dovetail a front sight on it. About 5 inches?
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Fantastic, don't worry about the sights, all the good guy's on the big screen just point and shoot, they hardly ever miss.
Re: Birthday present from the family
Hey, blind squills find a nut every so often....'Course I'm shooting black in it and it's a blast! (that's for Blaine)
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- 2ndovc
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Re: Birthday present from the family
Griff wrote:drop down in bullet weight as you up the fps...
Forgot about that one. Thanks Griff!
jb
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