Old army wads/vs no wads/ and Lee Bullets
My Old Army is somewhat load finicky. It seems to get optimum accuracy with .457 balls and 35 grains/vol of Pyrodex, swiss, goex or h777. The chamber will hold a good bit more but accuracy goes to heck. Here is a group I shot today with 35 pyrodex and the .457 ball over the standard thickeness bigiron wad. It does its job preventing fouling
I was sitting with my back rested and using my knees for a rest as I shot over the chronograph. this is fairly steady but probably doesn't demonstrate the full accuracy potential. I overlayed the above group with the same load with no wad. The velocities may be considered identical but limited observation indicates loads with the wads have a small velocity advantage. The point of aim was the same.
This revolver doesnt shoot the .457 /225 grain dedicated old army bullets from the lee mould at all well. It also doen't like the RamLok bullets that work so well in my other revolvers. The double thick bigiron wads boost velocities considerably and prevent the hard fouling that builds up quickly with these bullets shot directly over the powder.
My Old Army is somewhat load finicky. It seems to get optimum accuracy with .457 balls and 35 grains/vol of Pyrodex, swiss, goex or h777. The chamber will hold a good bit more but accuracy goes to heck. Here is a group I shot today with 35 pyrodex and the .457 ball over the standard thickeness bigiron wad. It does its job preventing fouling
I was sitting with my back rested and using my knees for a rest as I shot over the chronograph. this is fairly steady but probably doesn't demonstrate the full accuracy potential. I overlayed the above group with the same load with no wad. The velocities may be considered identical but limited observation indicates loads with the wads have a small velocity advantage. The point of aim was the same.
This revolver doesnt shoot the .457 /225 grain dedicated old army bullets from the lee mould at all well. It also doen't like the RamLok bullets that work so well in my other revolvers. The double thick bigiron wads boost velocities considerably and prevent the hard fouling that builds up quickly with these bullets shot directly over the powder.
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