caz223
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I just wondered.
I suspect that my inability to find really, really accurate loads for my bird'shead vaquero stems from the fact that I don't want to fll the case with powder.
The barrel is so short that slow powders won't work well, and fast powders don't fill up the case enough.
Some people suggested using wads of dacron, or other material to fill the case up the rest of the way, however this would be rather time consuming, I would think.
I wonder if it would be ok to trim a few .45 colt cases to the same length as .45 acp cases, and use load data for .45 acp?
Has anyone tried it?
Or should I just get the .45 acp cylinder and be done with it?
I already have 500+ pieces of brass, and love shooting the gun, but my .45 acp seems more inherantly accurate, and I've yet to find a ruger revolver that I couldn't hit with at 25-50 yards.
I just don't believe it's the gun's fault.
As a side note, I get acceptable accuracy from it, just not the accuracy I'm used to in .357 magnum, 357SIG, .45acp, and other inherantly accurate calibers.
I suspect that in full power loads, .45 colt would be very accurate, indeed.
I suspect that my inability to find really, really accurate loads for my bird'shead vaquero stems from the fact that I don't want to fll the case with powder.
The barrel is so short that slow powders won't work well, and fast powders don't fill up the case enough.
Some people suggested using wads of dacron, or other material to fill the case up the rest of the way, however this would be rather time consuming, I would think.
I wonder if it would be ok to trim a few .45 colt cases to the same length as .45 acp cases, and use load data for .45 acp?
Has anyone tried it?
Or should I just get the .45 acp cylinder and be done with it?
I already have 500+ pieces of brass, and love shooting the gun, but my .45 acp seems more inherantly accurate, and I've yet to find a ruger revolver that I couldn't hit with at 25-50 yards.
I just don't believe it's the gun's fault.
As a side note, I get acceptable accuracy from it, just not the accuracy I'm used to in .357 magnum, 357SIG, .45acp, and other inherantly accurate calibers.
I suspect that in full power loads, .45 colt would be very accurate, indeed.