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Post by sixshot on Feb 19, 2024 2:53:30 GMT -5
Yes, usually between 305 & 310 depending on alloy. Dang, a 41 octagon flat top, yikes!!!
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 18, 2024 17:51:39 GMT -5
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Post by sixshot on Feb 18, 2024 13:35:50 GMT -5
She likes my cinnamon rolls!
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 17, 2024 19:32:20 GMT -5
1600-1650 fps with a 180 gr bullet & you'll have to rename it, that's not really a 357 magnum anymore, yikes! You're breaking new ground. Oh, I also like 2400 over H110.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 17, 2024 17:43:37 GMT -5
Sounds like your BFR 357 is a real hummer. Seating those bullets long is reducing pressures for sure and getting 6+ firings at over 1600 fps is very impressive. Plus the accuracy is all you could ask for. The extra weight of the BFR wouldn't bother me a bit, actually I like a heavier gun. less recoil. Very nice write up.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 15, 2024 1:56:46 GMT -5
James, what about "Skillet Head Sally" in Alpine..... Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 19:01:51 GMT -5
One of my sons talked me out of my Lew Horton 3" 44 special & I've been mad ever since then. Anyway, I do have a 3" L frame 44 in the 696 & they are actually hard to tell when you put them next to an N frame. This one is a 4" 625 Mountain Gun in 45 colt that's also cuts for 45 ACP moon clips. Both are fine shooters with excellent triggers. Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 16:51:27 GMT -5
Oops, I think the town was Nixon, believe it was east of San Antonio!
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 15:43:51 GMT -5
The current HP 38 & 231 are the same powder & come out of the very same spout. If you look in the newer reloading manuals you will see them both being used at the exact same charge with the same bullets & pressures in several calibers. That wasn't always the case, they use to be slightly different.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 13:12:23 GMT -5
Started out with Unique in the 60's & I'm still shooting it. Longshot is also a favorite & 231 & WST for lighter loads. I won't run out of Unique, it goes with the 45 colt like bread & jam.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 13, 2024 13:03:10 GMT -5
Rey, if I had wine & tamales for lunch I wouldn't know a quail from a turkey & my first shot would go straight in the air, I'd be laying flat on my back for sure. The one year my wife & I wintered down in south Texas I was hog hunting with some guys & we stopped in a little cafe, I think in Dixon, Texas for some lunch & they went through enough hot sauce & jalapeno's to kill a large hog. They would bite into a burger & shake their head & say "man that's good". Not for me!
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 8, 2024 2:02:29 GMT -5
Don't ping Fowler until I get some of them, his uncle will get them all. How close is Glen Wood Springs to I-25? I'd like to get 200 lbs if I can, I'll pay now & pick them up when I go to the Holiday if that's ok. Don't sell them to that North Carolina hillbilly, he'll just shoot them single shot in the 7/30 Waters with the bent barrel & it will take it 25 years to shoot up a shoe box full.......... plus he's still got my Vaquero.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 4, 2024 14:00:30 GMT -5
WST is a good powder if you're just ringing steel or shooting field lions, Longshot is always a winner if you're really mad at something & Fermin's 135 gr cruise missile is great with a hefty charge of H110 if you really need to light the switch on the 327. In Brian Pearce's excellent article on the 327 he stated that he was getting better results just using standard primers instead of magnum primers. I don't think I've ever used a magnum cap in several years of shooting heavy loads in my 327's.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 3, 2024 19:33:01 GMT -5
I believe the knurling was actually to reduce pressure, might be wrong.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Feb 3, 2024 17:34:16 GMT -5
If there's a better nose profile out there than that one I've never seen it. I believe Rey Garza mentions shooting an elephant with a bullet where they had changed the nose profile from his previous trip & the bullet didn't work out because the nose was too wide. You can have too much of a good thing.
Dick
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