JohnBoy said:
Hi there, Steve! I've been back to this thread daily just to appreciate your amazing photos! Excellent work.
Quick request: Could we get a range report? Thanks! Jon
Sure! I shot it on Saturday. I was outside at our cabin. I set up my target stand 50 feet away from my shooting table. I used a Hy Score rest to place the barrel on. My hands were unsupported. It was pure bright sunshine outside and my eyes are right around the corner from being 54 years old. I was having a difficult time placing the top of the front sight level with the top of the rear sight. This was due to my eyes and the sun glinting off the top of the deeply blued front sight.
My side to side sight picture was fine. My first shot was a bit low, but instead of adjusting, I just continued to shoot all six first shots with the exact same sight picture as good as I could get it. I really should have a better set up so I can rest my hands as well as the barrel.
So this was the result:
I called the flyer that went out of the bullseye to the right.
I gotta say, for a fixed sighted gun at 50 feet (I usually shoot standing offhand at 21 feet with combat pistols and more than doubling the distance while using a rest made me nervous), I was really impressed. Sometimes fixed sighted guns don't shoot directly to point of aim. l think Bobby Tyler is somewhat magical.
The trigger pull breaks at just over 5 pounds. It has the factory springs. I may install a set of Wolff Springs to lighten up the hammer pull (although it is getting lighter the more I shoot the gun).
I swapped targets for a Shoot N C and put 30 more rounds downrange at the same distance in the same manner. This was the result:
I fired a total of 100 rounds. I used the pictured Federal High Velocity Match ammo. I fired a couple cylinders full at my steel pistol targets up close and the RSSE shot and handled like all the other single actions I have. Flawlessly and easy to hit with shooting fast and one handed.
For grins I tried to hit a 10" steel plate at 160 yards. I missed all six rounds. At the end of my shooting session, I had two .22 long rifle rounds I found in the bottom of my shooting bag. I don't even know what make or velocity they were. I loaded them up, spun the cylinder around, and then aimed at the 160 yard target again.
I hit the dang thing with both rounds! The "ding" off the steel surprised me and my wife. "You hit it!" Wow.
My other Single Sixes start to get dirty cylinders after around 50 shots or so. They become difficult to load and unload. The chambers get sticky and gunked up. It's hard to push new cartridges into the chambers and hard to knock them out with the ejector rod.
Not with this RSSE. I think Bobby polished the chambers before blueing the gun because after 100 rounds, this RSSE loaded and ejected like it was the first round fired out of a freshly cleaned gun.
I love this Ruger!
-Steve