I mentioned on another thread that I had picked up several shelves of ammo from my dealer for $20. In it were 17 boxes of 38/.357 ammo, split about half. (I also picked up 3 boxes of 30-06, two partials of 38 S&W, a box of 45-70, 3 of .308, 5 of .223/.556, 5 of .45acp, and 25 boxes of 12 gauge slugs, OO, OOO, OOOO, #4,#6, #2, #6, # 7 1/2, #9. ) tonight I packed my 17 boxes of .357 and .38 ammo off to the range for some "free" shooting.
Targets were put at 50 yards and the first 10 shots of .38 ammo were a bit to the right. Target sights were adjusted and brought them back to center on the next rounds. Shifted to .357 ammo and some more adjustments had offhand shots of around 4 inches for all 10 shots. The front bead is very visible, the action is flawless and the recoil was non-existant. I was truly impressed. The .357 has always sounded very sharp and high pitched crack to me. Not out of this carbine. The loads were quite compared to all my previous shooting experience. I went through about 7 different brands of ammo of different types of bullets, and weights, .38 and .357. I had one fail to feed, a full wadcutter .38 but that was assisted by a short stroke. I pushed the second round back into the magazine and the wadcutter fed right in.
When I finished shooting, most of the shots had covered the 4-5 inch center, a couple hundred rounds total.
this one is a keeper - I don't think you will see it for sale here on the classifieds anytime this life time.
Thanks Steve!!!!!!! Thanks to the forum for your recommendations!!!!
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