[mec]

The 5.5 Redhawk is 2" shorter than the 7.5" corbon test gun. Velocities are pretty close anyway. The .71 group with the 260 Bonded Core Hollow Point is pretty nice.
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[Wil Terry]

keep powder burns off the paper like that. I always get those itty bitty pieces of unburned powder pokin' holes in things......



gotcha!!!!!!!

[mec]

Yup Particulate Residue- big problem. Hey, I bet you know Wes Dakota I think he lives real close to you up there. Goes to those motor scooter rallys they have up there and checks out the scenery.

[Hal]

Sweet!

Looks like that gun really likes that 260 gr load. The recovered bullet almost looks like it's expansion matches the .71 " group size.

Is that Ruger box stock?

(BTW, nice shooting. I enjoy seeing fine work. Some artists work in clay, some in paints,,,,,,and some in lead and copper)

[mec]

Bullet more in the 60 caliber range when it stopped.- It's pasted on and different scale that the group. Yeh, thiis RH was on the used shelf but hadn't been shot much at all. Action was still factory semi-rough. Some Rugers come slathered with oil and some bone dry and this was one of the latter. Not a bit of lube anywhere inside. SA trigger was 6 lb 40z
Now, after a couple of hundred rounds, the trigger has settled in at 5 pounds, the action is slick as you could want. It has very little rotational play. What at first appears to be a small amount of end shake turns out to be a bit of slop in the rear of the cylinder. The front cylinder-crain cometogether is tight.

I am usually happy if I can shoot an iron sighted revolver into the 1.5" / 25 yard range and this one has turned in a large number of groups in the 1 - 1.3" range. Most of them will have four out of five rounds in an inch or less.

It seems to like jacketed bullets and gas checked lead. I shot a few 8- 900 fps loads with swcs and got small bench groups.
Heavy loaded keiths of 260 & 300 grains on the other hand are 2- 2.5" groupers.

The auto-action tuning that comes from just dry cycling and shooting the gun a bit is pretty typical and the best reason I know not to rush a new ruger off to the gunsmith.

[mec]

Here's the bullet with some scale. it went through a doubled over slab of beef brisket and knocked this exit hole in the cardboard box. I suspect it was pretty big in diameter at that point judging from the hole. It then penetrated about 6" of dry paper before coming to a stop.

the aveage JHP would have come unraveled to a much greater extent and wouldn't have gone as deep. This is one of Corbon's Bonded core Gorilla thumpers. The real mastodon stomping monstrosity is their 320 grain linotype LBT designed bullet. It is supposed to go 1275 out of a 7.5 but averaged 1293 from my 5.5 on the day I shot it. That's over 1200 fpe and 24.4 ft lbs of recoil.
That's up from 18 ft pounds with a 240 doing 1400.
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