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Post by clintsfolly on Oct 13, 2022 12:14:12 GMT -5
You have way to much fun! When I grow I want to be Sixshot!
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callshot
.327 Meteor
Living another day in the worlds largest playground
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Post by callshot on Oct 13, 2022 12:49:25 GMT -5
Good hunt. Wish that I had been there to help you.
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Post by contender on Oct 13, 2022 13:21:43 GMT -5
Excellent!
142 yds,, full pass through, very little running by the deer, and both lungs punched easily. Just about as good as you could ask for.
So,, now I wonder if anybody else has taken any big game with this caliber/bullet combo? If not,, it's very fitting that Dick has done so. Locally, I've been helping a young man work on his Maxi, and his plan is to try for a bear and a deer with his. Our bear season opens this coming monday. If he succeeds,, I'll be reporting on it here.
Dick, I'm extending a "virtual handshake" of congratulations.
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Post by 45MAN on Oct 13, 2022 13:38:56 GMT -5
WTG! GOOD REPORT.
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Post by flyingzebra on Oct 13, 2022 13:54:31 GMT -5
Do you have an etimate for launch speed and impact speed?
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Post by Lee Martin on Oct 13, 2022 14:00:53 GMT -5
Outstanding report Dick. And thanks so much for bloodying our bullet. I'm pretty sure you're the first to do so. I'm impressed with how it worked. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by sixshot on Oct 13, 2022 14:15:07 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm not sure of the velocity. My bullets actually weight about 197 grs & I can't remember if I've clocked them. I probably have but it's been a while. I'm sure Lee or David can tell you the muzzle velocity & most likely the impact velocity at 142 yds. I just got the deer hung up but I need one of the grandson's to give me a hand before I can open it up & see if I did hit it with the second shot, not sure. It's not hanging very steady.
Usually when a buck comes out later & follows doe's like this one did they follow the same scent line but this buck was never with them, he came from another direction & just happened to see them. If he had followed their scent line I could have shot him with the 45 Auto Rim. He was following by sight, not scent.
Dick
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Post by Lee Martin on Oct 13, 2022 14:29:41 GMT -5
Do you have an etimate for launch speed and impact speed? 18.5 of IMR 4227 goes around 1,470 fps from my 10.5" Maximum. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by harveylogan on Oct 13, 2022 15:10:16 GMT -5
I like those little guys, Very good table fair. We’re headed out next week for the “No Deer Hunt” Will be shooting everything we see with our finger guns, pew pew. NO Tags this year, but we’re still hunting all 10 days.😁
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 13, 2022 15:36:01 GMT -5
Dick.... reckon you popped the champagne on our bullet. Everything in your report has the sift of experience, an old predator with sixgun. Gladdens my heart to read your words. We did in five pigs yesterday. I had Maximum #18 loaded with the powder coat Bradshaw-Martin 194 SWC GC over 18.5/H4227. Thinking, even though this is just execution, Dick is on the mountain with our bullet----and he’s hunting! Feels so good to have a caveman steel shooter break in the bullet with a sixshooter pronounced dead decades ago by folks who didn’t understand it.
After you get it skun, look forward to final autopsy. For the hind legs to buckle, your bullet passed below the spine enough to not touch it, yet proximal enough to stun it. Wherever the second shot, sounds like your first shot was the fatal.
For you to break-in our bullet, you don’t know how good it makes me feel,
David Bradshaw
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Post by sixshot on Oct 13, 2022 18:09:37 GMT -5
David, I sawed through the brisket a few minutes ago & as you mentioned the exit was fairly close to the spine but did not hit it. As for the second shot I believe it was a clean miss as the buck was in spinning mode, not sure yet as I haven't taken the hide off. With our cool weather I'll leave the hide on for 4-5 more days, our night time temps are down into the 30's now & I only like to skin a deer once. This is the fattest young buck I've ever seen, some of the fat is over 2" thick, he's been eating better than I have.  Dick |
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 14, 2022 10:29:29 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm not sure of the velocity. My bullets actually weight about 197 grs & I can't remember if I've clocked them. I probably have but it's been a while. I'm sure Lee or David can tell you the muzzle velocity & most likely the impact velocity at 142 yds. I just got the deer hung up but I need one of the grandson's to give me a hand before I can open it up & see if I did hit it with the second shot, not sure. It's not hanging very steady. Usually when a buck comes out later & follows doe's like this one did they follow the same scent line but this buck was never with them, he came from another direction & just happened to see them. If he had followed their scent line I could have shot him with the 45 Auto Rim. He was following by sight, not scent. Dick ***** Dick.... a re-read of your hunt story jumps as well as the first visual take of the hunter and the hunted. Lee got some downrange velocities of the Bradshaw-Martin 194 via his Lab Radar, but not to the distance you shot. I’ll try to repost water jug tests at 3 load levels: two .357 Maximum, one .357 Mag. To recap my criteria for the Bradshaw-Martin 194 SWC GC: * Designed for Ruger SRM Blackhawk .357 Maximum cylinder. * 190 grains naked. * COG set rearward, away from COF. * Deep seat to crimp above front band. * No crimp groove. * Powder coat, but suitable for lube. * Four bands, one wide grease groove with slightly beveled sides (Dan’s bevel @ Mountain Molds). * Long nose, approximately from 1.605” case to cylinder face, setback provided by from band approximately .030 below case mouth. * Front band with enough shelf to catch on roll crimp, and cut target. * Long nose to increase Ballistic Coefficient. * Ogive of moderate radius to support long nose. * Meplat wide enough to convect shock. * Gas check (after powder coat). * A silhouette-accurate hunting bullet. Aside from cleanliness of powder coat, it is the anneal of heating which allows plastic upset of nose. This is the attribute of POWDER COAT which I believe sets it apart from hard cast. David: “I hope it shoots.” Lee: "If it doesn’t, we’ll try again.” David Bradshaw |
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Post by contender on Oct 14, 2022 19:50:32 GMT -5
David,, you & Lee succeeded. Quite well I might add!
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bamagreg
.327 Meteor
Woodstock, GA
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Post by bamagreg on Oct 16, 2022 19:39:40 GMT -5
I would love to get my hands on some of those bullets. If anyone has any extras or knows where I could get some please let me know
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Post by magnum314 on Oct 16, 2022 19:48:39 GMT -5
What a great write up! Great story, great review, great photos, great gun...much appreciated! Thank you, Dick! Some of you guys who play such a major role here on this site for us "newbies" may never know how inspiring your posts are to even an older guy like me. Living in the Midwest my whole life, I so appreciate the opportunity to live vicariously through so many of your adventures here and abroad. This Indiana corn-field, soy-bean field, autumn woods hunter appreciates it so much!
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