Voodoochile
Member
Hello my friends I went to the range today with the better half & I carried my 58' Pietta NMA along with my Chronograph to meaure a few hand loads that I've done for her .45.
Well after a while Moma said that she wanted to see what my 58' would register at so I decided to run a cylinder or two through & record my results.
Now mind you I'm only pushing a .457 143gr. Ball, Remington #11's & using Pyrodex P because I'm running low on the good stuff.
35gr. Pyrodex P. - 1150 fps. avg.
30gr. Pyrodex P. - 1042 fps. avg.
BTW, I had the Chrono sitting 8 feet from the muzzle & normally it is very accurate by comparrison to 2 others that I had to check my Archery gear against "ASA only allows a max speed of 280fps."
Needless to say she was quite impressed with the velocities that I was achieving & so was I, I never thought that I'd see this type of velocities in any of my C&B revolvers except for my 3rd model Dragoon that my brother still has, does this sound right to any of you?
What have any of you achieved with your pieces?
Well after a while Moma said that she wanted to see what my 58' would register at so I decided to run a cylinder or two through & record my results.
Now mind you I'm only pushing a .457 143gr. Ball, Remington #11's & using Pyrodex P because I'm running low on the good stuff.
35gr. Pyrodex P. - 1150 fps. avg.
30gr. Pyrodex P. - 1042 fps. avg.
BTW, I had the Chrono sitting 8 feet from the muzzle & normally it is very accurate by comparrison to 2 others that I had to check my Archery gear against "ASA only allows a max speed of 280fps."
Needless to say she was quite impressed with the velocities that I was achieving & so was I, I never thought that I'd see this type of velocities in any of my C&B revolvers except for my 3rd model Dragoon that my brother still has, does this sound right to any of you?
What have any of you achieved with your pieces?