JCK
Single-Sixer
I'm very fond of my Stainless Single-7.
It was bad about stiff or sticking cases at first, but repeated polishing finally cured that.
Accuracy with other than nearly impossible to source jacketed bullets either in component or loaded ammunition was BAD when I bought it. It suffered from thread choke in the threaded portion of the barrel. Repeated attempts at fire lapping and shooting max loads of H110 with jacketed bullets finally got it to where it shoots decent with cast bullet loads.
The trigger pull nearly made it a "crew served" handgun. I adjusted the spring tension and replaced the hammer because I botched the first attempt at reducing the sear engagement.
It now is the gun it should have been when it left Ruger. I've had several Black Hawks that were similar, and traded off.
I use exclusively small rifle primers in the .327 loads so as to avoid cratering and sticking the cylinder. It's decently accurate with my "field" load of #2400 under the Lee 113gr RFN-GC for about 1,300fps.
However, it mostly gets shot with the Lee 93gr RN powder coated and sized to .314" over 2,2gr of Bullseye or TiteGroup. There is however a good amount of difference in POI/POA between the loads.
The most fun I've had though is with .32acp loads with the Lyman 78gr RN bullet over 1.8gr. It's like shooting CB caps in a .22rf.
With full power.327's the cylinder pin WILL walk out. My solution is to shoot.32hr or .32swl equivalent loads which doesn't cause pin walk. When shooting.327's, I just push on the pin after shooting a full cylinder.
One day I'll replace the retaining spring…
I since have acquired a Taurus M76 in .32mag. It's a TACK DRIVER, so it gets the most attention…
That and the nearly equal S&W .30SC EZ.
Targets are 25yd groups.
It was bad about stiff or sticking cases at first, but repeated polishing finally cured that.
Accuracy with other than nearly impossible to source jacketed bullets either in component or loaded ammunition was BAD when I bought it. It suffered from thread choke in the threaded portion of the barrel. Repeated attempts at fire lapping and shooting max loads of H110 with jacketed bullets finally got it to where it shoots decent with cast bullet loads.
The trigger pull nearly made it a "crew served" handgun. I adjusted the spring tension and replaced the hammer because I botched the first attempt at reducing the sear engagement.
It now is the gun it should have been when it left Ruger. I've had several Black Hawks that were similar, and traded off.
I use exclusively small rifle primers in the .327 loads so as to avoid cratering and sticking the cylinder. It's decently accurate with my "field" load of #2400 under the Lee 113gr RFN-GC for about 1,300fps.
However, it mostly gets shot with the Lee 93gr RN powder coated and sized to .314" over 2,2gr of Bullseye or TiteGroup. There is however a good amount of difference in POI/POA between the loads.
The most fun I've had though is with .32acp loads with the Lyman 78gr RN bullet over 1.8gr. It's like shooting CB caps in a .22rf.
With full power.327's the cylinder pin WILL walk out. My solution is to shoot.32hr or .32swl equivalent loads which doesn't cause pin walk. When shooting.327's, I just push on the pin after shooting a full cylinder.
One day I'll replace the retaining spring…
I since have acquired a Taurus M76 in .32mag. It's a TACK DRIVER, so it gets the most attention…
That and the nearly equal S&W .30SC EZ.
Targets are 25yd groups.
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