blarby
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Or am I just missing something ?
In the vein of .44 threads lately, I thought I would start my own.
So, my .44 mag revolver is developing an irritating personality trait.
Let me explain :
When I first got this piece, I went up and down the spectrum of jacketed loads in both weight and powder charge.
It hated 300g bullets of all types and diameters.
It really liked 240g JHP's by nosler, and favored h-110. It also liked 240g plated using hs-6.
Enter cast bullets !
It liked 240's with GC's sized to .430. It used to like tumble lubes sized to .430, but lately after about three cylinders, it starts leading so bad that it shoots a pizza "pattern" at about 12 yards. Its not a group anymore. I have factory buckshot that groups far better than this.
I've had my wife shoot it- she's a much better shot than I, and you can watch the bullets spiral out further and further with each passing bullet.
I blame speer.
It tasted some 200g speer jacketed bullets using 20grs of H-110 that I got in trade some time ago, and it must have favored the delicacy- as it wont shoot anything else straight anymore.
No, they aren't oversized, these speer bullets. Best I can tell, they also haven't magically expanded my BBL.
After shooting three cylinders of cast, if I shoot one or two jacketed through it to blow out the snot, it shoots fine for one, and then further down the spiral we go again.
It still shoots 200g projectiles far better than it does anything else. I think its confused, and believes itself to be a 44 special, as the rifling is really only 3" long.
Meh, I'm really just trying to justify to myself purchasing a new sizer die for my Saeco so I can get some use out of this 215g GC-HP mold that JShirley sent to me.
I think the gun is trying to help.
So, I guess the question is : Anyone else have 44mags that like light bullets ? If velocity is the King, and fitment is the queen, this doesn't seem like a horrible combination. I just feel like my revolver has "nerfed" itself.
In the vein of .44 threads lately, I thought I would start my own.
So, my .44 mag revolver is developing an irritating personality trait.
Let me explain :
When I first got this piece, I went up and down the spectrum of jacketed loads in both weight and powder charge.
It hated 300g bullets of all types and diameters.
It really liked 240g JHP's by nosler, and favored h-110. It also liked 240g plated using hs-6.
Enter cast bullets !
It liked 240's with GC's sized to .430. It used to like tumble lubes sized to .430, but lately after about three cylinders, it starts leading so bad that it shoots a pizza "pattern" at about 12 yards. Its not a group anymore. I have factory buckshot that groups far better than this.
I've had my wife shoot it- she's a much better shot than I, and you can watch the bullets spiral out further and further with each passing bullet.
I blame speer.
It tasted some 200g speer jacketed bullets using 20grs of H-110 that I got in trade some time ago, and it must have favored the delicacy- as it wont shoot anything else straight anymore.
No, they aren't oversized, these speer bullets. Best I can tell, they also haven't magically expanded my BBL.
After shooting three cylinders of cast, if I shoot one or two jacketed through it to blow out the snot, it shoots fine for one, and then further down the spiral we go again.
It still shoots 200g projectiles far better than it does anything else. I think its confused, and believes itself to be a 44 special, as the rifling is really only 3" long.
Meh, I'm really just trying to justify to myself purchasing a new sizer die for my Saeco so I can get some use out of this 215g GC-HP mold that JShirley sent to me.
I think the gun is trying to help.
So, I guess the question is : Anyone else have 44mags that like light bullets ? If velocity is the King, and fitment is the queen, this doesn't seem like a horrible combination. I just feel like my revolver has "nerfed" itself.