Title pretty much says it all... I started to get into handloading, bought all my stuff and started learning before I realized 2 things... It will take alot of trial and error to get all the variables worked out, and I don't have a good "dry" (as in not ridiculously humid) place to do it at. Sadly I just gave up and sold my setup, maybe one day when I can afford to have a climate controlled area to store things in, I can get back into it...
back to the question, though... I'm in search of my holy grail... a rifle/revolver chambered in the same caliber, that will shoot the same load accurately. Not looking for sub MOA stuff here, 3 inches out of the rifle would make me ecstatic at 100 yards and the same round doing something minute of deer out of a revolver... So, this is just another one of the things I'm wondering about. I can pick up a 7.5 inch ruger bisley .45lc from a friend, not sure I really need it since I have a really nice blackhawk .41 but it would be much easier for me to find a rifle in that chambering... I'm still toying with the idea of a T/C encore or H&R handi rifle with a .41 mag barrel, but the single shot is holding me back a bit.
Just curious if anyone has done some testing with the .45lc leverevolution out of a pistol, (surely there are plenty), and possibly some of you cowboy action shooters who use the same factory loading in your pistols and rifles... I understand the need for 2 loads, but that would negate the purpose of having matching calibers to me, and I'm just hoping to run across my "holy grail" one day. Some kind of factory ammo that I can use well out of a rifle and well out of a pistol... Any recommendations? I don't want to go .357, but I haven't completely ruled that out either.
Oh, and this will be used on pest control of deer on the farm, not exactly "hunting" but I do eat what I shoot here.
back to the question, though... I'm in search of my holy grail... a rifle/revolver chambered in the same caliber, that will shoot the same load accurately. Not looking for sub MOA stuff here, 3 inches out of the rifle would make me ecstatic at 100 yards and the same round doing something minute of deer out of a revolver... So, this is just another one of the things I'm wondering about. I can pick up a 7.5 inch ruger bisley .45lc from a friend, not sure I really need it since I have a really nice blackhawk .41 but it would be much easier for me to find a rifle in that chambering... I'm still toying with the idea of a T/C encore or H&R handi rifle with a .41 mag barrel, but the single shot is holding me back a bit.
Just curious if anyone has done some testing with the .45lc leverevolution out of a pistol, (surely there are plenty), and possibly some of you cowboy action shooters who use the same factory loading in your pistols and rifles... I understand the need for 2 loads, but that would negate the purpose of having matching calibers to me, and I'm just hoping to run across my "holy grail" one day. Some kind of factory ammo that I can use well out of a rifle and well out of a pistol... Any recommendations? I don't want to go .357, but I haven't completely ruled that out either.
Oh, and this will be used on pest control of deer on the farm, not exactly "hunting" but I do eat what I shoot here.