sixshot
Buckeye
A few days ago in the reloading forum I posted a couple of photo's of my 4" model 57 S&W & the plate rack I had been shooting at 40 yds out the window of my truck. I had just received the gun that day & was sighting it in with some fresh handloads using the old 230 gr Keith & 7.5 grs of W231 powder in RP cases. I reported hitting the first 2 plates & then missed a couple of times so I moved to a 20 yd paper target & the gun was shooting a bit left so I made a correction & then ran several plates without a miss.
Today was a bit warmer & I had more ammo loaded plus I had some old loads with my standard midrange load of 8 grs of Unique, a load I've used in many 41's since the late 60's. The first loads were powder coated, my old loads were not.
This first target is 20 yds out the window using the 7.5 grs of W231, the Keith 230 gr cast, powder coated bullet & a WLP primer. Not as steady as off the bench but it gives me a fair idea of how the gun is going to shoot even in bad weather. After shooting 5 shots I made a sight adjustment to the left.
Making a one click sight adjustment I switched to my old standby load of 8 grs of Unique, these were plain cast bullets lubed with LBT blue lube. I've shot many, many thousands of these loads over the years, they've always shot well in every 41 magnum I've ever owned. The first few shots surprised me, they scattered a bit, I think it was because I had been shooting powder coated bullets & switching to regular lubed bullets took a few shots for the gun & load to settle down.
The first shot went high, the next 3 went low, the 5th shot went somewhere in the middle. I reloaded & shot 5 more. I had to wipe my hands, arms & elbows off, clean off the side of my truck door & then run my truck through the car wash...... all of you know how dirty Unique is, it's terrible, there are so many powders out there that are better. Guess maybe I'll just stick with Unique, it's been working for me well over 50 years! There are 6 shots there pretty close.
Dick
Today was a bit warmer & I had more ammo loaded plus I had some old loads with my standard midrange load of 8 grs of Unique, a load I've used in many 41's since the late 60's. The first loads were powder coated, my old loads were not.
This first target is 20 yds out the window using the 7.5 grs of W231, the Keith 230 gr cast, powder coated bullet & a WLP primer. Not as steady as off the bench but it gives me a fair idea of how the gun is going to shoot even in bad weather. After shooting 5 shots I made a sight adjustment to the left.
Making a one click sight adjustment I switched to my old standby load of 8 grs of Unique, these were plain cast bullets lubed with LBT blue lube. I've shot many, many thousands of these loads over the years, they've always shot well in every 41 magnum I've ever owned. The first few shots surprised me, they scattered a bit, I think it was because I had been shooting powder coated bullets & switching to regular lubed bullets took a few shots for the gun & load to settle down.
The first shot went high, the next 3 went low, the 5th shot went somewhere in the middle. I reloaded & shot 5 more. I had to wipe my hands, arms & elbows off, clean off the side of my truck door & then run my truck through the car wash...... all of you know how dirty Unique is, it's terrible, there are so many powders out there that are better. Guess maybe I'll just stick with Unique, it's been working for me well over 50 years! There are 6 shots there pretty close.
Dick