critter
February 4, 2007, 01:17 PM
I have really wanted one for a long time, but just could not convince myself to pay the steep tariff. Then I found a very lightly used one at an estate sale for a GOOD price.
It is a Freedom Arms .454 field grade-7.5" barrel. What an awsome piece of equipment! The thing is made like a TANK and it is also made like a Swiss watch. Tolerances are minimal and consistant all throughout.
I shot it a good bit on Saturday. VERY accurate and recoil is hard and snappy but managable if you are experienced with big bore handguns. If you will hold it on the lil middle of the target, she WILL put holes RIGHT THERE (I didn't even have to adjust the sights). I shot it with full bore .454 loads as well as some 'Ruger only' .45 colt loads. Both seemed to be equally accurate. I shot both jacketed bullets and hard cast ones. That, too, seemed to make no difference in accuracy. The gun is so well finished on the inside (cylinder chambers and inside the barrel) that it cleaned up very easliy.
Somebody had left a 12" X 12" piece of paper for a target at the 100 yard range (private one at our hunting camp). I fired off 10 rounds from 100 yards at the paper using a double handed hold. (Iron sights) I put 6 of the 10 on the paper!----and I CAN'T SHOOT THAT WELL with iron sights! The gun makes me look GOOD.
I have to shoot it a LOT more! and soon!
Look, all you gunnies out there. Before you quit, you really owe it to yourself to get yourself one REALLY fine gun. I think the FA pieces are well worthy of being that 'one fine gun before you go'!
It is a Freedom Arms .454 field grade-7.5" barrel. What an awsome piece of equipment! The thing is made like a TANK and it is also made like a Swiss watch. Tolerances are minimal and consistant all throughout.
I shot it a good bit on Saturday. VERY accurate and recoil is hard and snappy but managable if you are experienced with big bore handguns. If you will hold it on the lil middle of the target, she WILL put holes RIGHT THERE (I didn't even have to adjust the sights). I shot it with full bore .454 loads as well as some 'Ruger only' .45 colt loads. Both seemed to be equally accurate. I shot both jacketed bullets and hard cast ones. That, too, seemed to make no difference in accuracy. The gun is so well finished on the inside (cylinder chambers and inside the barrel) that it cleaned up very easliy.
Somebody had left a 12" X 12" piece of paper for a target at the 100 yard range (private one at our hunting camp). I fired off 10 rounds from 100 yards at the paper using a double handed hold. (Iron sights) I put 6 of the 10 on the paper!----and I CAN'T SHOOT THAT WELL with iron sights! The gun makes me look GOOD.
I have to shoot it a LOT more! and soon!
Look, all you gunnies out there. Before you quit, you really owe it to yourself to get yourself one REALLY fine gun. I think the FA pieces are well worthy of being that 'one fine gun before you go'!