I have been absent from here a bit, and been wanting to catch up on things. Unfortunately there have been some personal life issues that have been dragging on (and on and on) that have kept me very busy, plus I have been doing lots of dad stuff (which I don't really apologize for but it does keep a guy hopping.) Easter weekend saw me filling plastic eggs and making dinner and all that good stuff. Always a good time with kids, and Henry the Happy Hound and Simon the Gangster Cat, who is a formerly feral cat that sometimes thinks he is still on the street (or field).
Anyways......
What this has to do with revolvers..
Well, I make a .45 Colt load that uses a 270 wide nose Elmer Keith style lead semi wadcutter. It is pretty popular as it is simply one of those good all around loads and it is quite accurate.
But a few guys had asked about a heavier .45 Colt load. I have been working on it as a side project, but have not been satisfied with the combo of speed and accuracy until this load. This one is definitely it. It is a heavy, 325 grain WFN (wide flat nose) bullet.
I was short on time, as the sun was setting, and I was not going to have time to set up a proper shooting bench, so it was just going to be one of those shooting over the hood kind of things and see how the loads do.
I was shooting over the hood of my Landcruiser. Some of you might recognize what I was using as a blast shield. It is a hot barrel bag from an M240 machine gun. The gun was my large frame shorty (4&5/8ths") Ruger Blackhawk with a red dot on it. The target was at 25 yards.
I set my chronograph and target up and shot 4 rounds.
Aiming for the green dot BTW.
I could not tell at all if I was on paper or where, so I walked down to check.
When I checked I found this:
I figured I had better take a picture of that because sure as heck, I will screw a group up like that!
My fifth shot was pretty good too.
I then shot some for the chronograph and got 1155, which for that short barrel is moving.
I am happy to say it has come together.
Funny thing is that they are too tall to fit in a traditional plastic ammo tray and cardboard box.
It is always something! But I am very happy that a load was developed that hits the sweet spot I was looking for of speed and accuracy!
Not much is going to shrug off one of those.