I set up outside ......cloudy...damp...but no rain.
Nath, our buddy from overseas was wondering about how fast a 25 Auto would be out of a rifle. Well, Nath, I can accommodate you on that. I have a mess of antique Marbles adapters that allow you to shoot little cartridges out of big rifles......that's the way they did things back in the day...they had one rifle and a mess of ways to shoot it.
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I set up and chronoed the little Vest Model 1908 Colt along with a Winchester Model 1894 SRC I dug out of the back of the safe to test it all. The 25 Auto ammo was all factory except 1 handload.......and yes, my handload prevailed.
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No failures to feed or eject. Had one dud and one hangfire from 100 year old ammo
Here ya go.......
Most velocities are an average of 3 shots....some 5....some two. This was all shot at 7 yards.
Colt 25 Auto .....R-P somewhat fresh ....705 fps........out of rifle........865 fps
Colt 25 Auto.....old pre WW ONE..Cupro nickel bullet....599 fps...out of rifle....736 fps
One dud and one hangfire.
Colt 25 Auto.....Winchester-Western....787 fps......did not test in rifle
Colt 25 Auto......CCI Blazer.....690 fps........did not test in rifle
Colt 25 Auto.....no head stamp foreign ammo......685 fps......did not test in rifle
Colt 25 Auto......Frontier hollow point....1 shot...light bullet.....922 fps....did not test in rifle
Colt 25 Auto......1960's Peters......746 fps...did not test in rifle
Colt 25 Auto.....handload...1.4 gr. Bullseye..50 gr. Lead...828 fps...out of rifle.....939 fps
The goods....Marbles adapter plus a loaded 25-35 with a paper patched 50 grain lead bullet
One shot with 25 grains of Hi-Vel #2 military powder from WW 2.....1889 fps...poor gas seal.
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The set up in the back yard
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Don't concern yourself with this picture...I started out all serious and organized but that soon
fell apart. Groups were about 2" at 7 yards before I let it all go to hell. I just threw this in for
shyts and giggles.----6
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