vid of me shooting my Pieta 58

[O.S.O.K.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEADE-4EAq4

It likes em hot! As you will hear in the video (makes me sound funnier than normal ) it is loaded with 40 grains of Pyrodex P - with a lubed wad and Hornady .454" round ball. Pretty hot - and proved pretty accurate - 3.5" at 25 yards.

I tried some Lee 200 grain conicals in it and it didn't like em - at least with the load that I tried.

My Uberti dragoon on the other hand loved them with 45 grains of Pyrodex P and a wad.

Oh, and the 58 prefers #10 caps which were snug and worked great.

Here's a pic of the gun/target:

That was with a 6 oclock hold - I adjusted the rear sight to the right a bit and now it's spot on. Love the sights on this pistol!

Here's a couple of dragoon pics:

The dragoon target shows two 6-shot groups - the one on the left was with a point of aim directly below the group on the bottom edge of the paper and the second group (tighter) on the right is off-hand with point of aim center, bottom edge of the paper - so it's shooting about 12" high at 25 yards but windage is good.

 

[mec]

that is highly respectable shooting.

 

[Vermonter]

I saw that last night when I was searching for 1858 videos

 

[O.S.O.K.]

highly respectible



mec, coming from you that's a big compliment!

Do you sometimes find that your off-hand groups are better than those from a rested position?

Vermonter - yep, another 1858 video - I saw that other guy's with the heavy metal music for his "how to load and shoot" video.

I think I may put one together with some bluegrass or something

 

[mec]

Unfortunately yes. I also shoot better sometimes one-handed than with two. It's the corrupting influence of doing most of my shooting " duelist" and not having a very good bench technique sometimes.

 

[hildo]

O.S.O.K.
Great vid. Love to see the open air shooting, easier on the longs as well. Just not enough space around here.
Just ordered a Lee mold myself.
What's wrong in your opinion with the 200 grain Lee conicals?
Hildo

 

[O.S.O.K.]

Lee conicals

What's wrong with the Lee 200 grain conicals? Nothing in my opinion.

You will like the mold.

The 1858 just didn't like em with the charge that I used. The dragoon did - that's typical of my experience with handguns and guns in general. Many have a strong preferrence for projectiles/load levels.

The Lee conicals that I cast of 30-1 (lead to tin) alloy came out of the mold about .458" and did size down a bit in the chambers. They tended to center themselves when the ram pushed on the nose.

I'm not sure why my 58 didn't care for these - could be that a different charge volume would be fine - I didn't try 25 or 30 for example. My test was with 40 grains - guess the testosterone was flowing