Got it this afternoon and made a quick run down to my range for some shots.
First off the cylinder gap was great with .006 all around and with .004 cylinder end play which to me is a bit loose. So gap was .002-.006. Cylinder throats were .432...perfect!
Fit and finish was good....typical Ruger and the trigger has a good bit of creep before it breaks.
Now only had time to run a mix of fifty rounds thru it but it shot everything clean...no leading.
My loads were 240 gr. Keith bullet with Hi-Tek coating from MB loaded over 7 gr. of Unique,
same bullet loaded with 8.0 gr. Power Pistol, 230 gr. Lyman 429215 with GC bullet loaded over
7.7 Unique.
Picture below were the first shots of the 240 gr. MB bullet with 7.0 gr. Unique shooting off hand,one handed, standing from 12 yds. When I did my part I had 3 ragged holes together...sweet!
Need to do a little trigger work to get rid of that trigger creep though.
The sights were untouched out the box and might just need a click up to get on bulls eye.
May add a .002 shim in front of cylinder to tighten up that end play/shake a bit but
going to have some fun with this cool .44 Bisley!
First off the cylinder gap was great with .006 all around and with .004 cylinder end play which to me is a bit loose. So gap was .002-.006. Cylinder throats were .432...perfect!
Fit and finish was good....typical Ruger and the trigger has a good bit of creep before it breaks.
Now only had time to run a mix of fifty rounds thru it but it shot everything clean...no leading.
My loads were 240 gr. Keith bullet with Hi-Tek coating from MB loaded over 7 gr. of Unique,
same bullet loaded with 8.0 gr. Power Pistol, 230 gr. Lyman 429215 with GC bullet loaded over
7.7 Unique.
Picture below were the first shots of the 240 gr. MB bullet with 7.0 gr. Unique shooting off hand,one handed, standing from 12 yds. When I did my part I had 3 ragged holes together...sweet!
Need to do a little trigger work to get rid of that trigger creep though.
The sights were untouched out the box and might just need a click up to get on bulls eye.
May add a .002 shim in front of cylinder to tighten up that end play/shake a bit but
going to have some fun with this cool .44 Bisley!