sandman228
Single-Sixer
- Joined
- Sep 15, 2011
- Messages
- 191
ok a few months back I bought a 357/9mm convertible and really liked it, so much so that I decided I had to have 1 in 45 also. well I was on my way to work 1 afternoon a few weeks ago and had a little extra time on my hands so I stopped by a local gunshop where I buy most of my handguns from low and behold he he a couple new convertibles there including 1 in 45 with a 4 5/8 barrel (exactly what I wanted ) it was kinda 1 of those things im glad I found it but at the same time wish I didn't. my income tax refund was just deposited to my acct that day and was pretty much all spoken for including paying off my 2 credit cards litteraly a few hours before I found this revolver . so instead of spending money that was supposed to be for something else(and pissing the wife off ) or running the credit cards back up I just put a 100$ deposit on it, it was just shy of 600$ out the door with tax and background check fees. well I picked it up last week we had a nice 50 degree day here yesterday so I decided to take it and a few other guns back to the range there was still allot of ice and snow back there but other than going to work ive been cooped up in this house for quite a while and was hell bent I was going . so I ran 50 rounds of 45 lc through this gun they were my own cast 200 gr swc bullet over 5.9 gr hp38. I kept my 45 lc rounds on the mild side because I was shooting them from a traditions bp revolver with a howells old west conversion before I bought this convertible if I remember right that was the starting load for that bullet. all and all the accuracy and grouping were decent shooting it at 25 yrds bench rested poa wasn't exactly right on but im not messing with that just yet I plan on changing the grips and probably shooting a heavier bullet (I bought a new 250 gr swc mold for this gun). so after I finished up a box of 45 lc reloads I decided to put the 45 acp cylinder in and try it out wich is what I was most looking forward to, I thought 45 acp out of a big heavy revolver would be nice and smooth easy shooting little to no recoil (like 9mm is in my other convertible) wow was I wrong. I was shooting my own cast 230 gr lrn bullet over 4.0 gr of bullseye that I shoot our of my rock island 1911 all the time im not saying it was a beast but there was more recoil out of it with this round than with the lc rounds it really shocked me . all and all im pretty happy with both of my convertibles though .I wish they would bring back the 32h&r-32 20 convertible ,if they did I would own 1 I cast for and reload 32 h&r already and shoot them out of my gp100 327 mag its a great gun too but I love the single actions
