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Post by toroflow on Oct 5, 2012 18:46:26 GMT -5
I bet yours was in fact made in the 1990s and then sent back to get rebored after the 405 came out in 2000. In any event, you got a nice one!! And I keep reading your tales of shooting your .405. Mine is locked up in my 2nd safe which won't open!!! The Sergeant & Greenleaf spin dial feels like its working fine, but she will NOT open. I'm told that I'm going to have to have it drilled, the old lock mechanism punched, then I can open. Then they replace the lock mechanism and put a hardened pin in where they drilled the .250" hole to punch the lock. I guess I'd better have that done soon, as your tales of shooting your .405 aren't helping any!! LOL  |
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Post by nolongcolt on Oct 5, 2012 20:59:16 GMT -5
Thats a bummer about the safe! I look forward to the next session with my .405. Loaded up some rounds with AA2015 which I have had great luck with in the .450 Marlin. Burn rate charts show it as being pretty fast powder but in straight wall cases it seems to "slow" down some and more can be used than one would think. I say that with caution of course. In my 95 I am going to start low and work up since its an unknown quantity. The gun shot lots better for me after putting the peep on thats for sure. Sorry to add to your misery!! LOL!! Get that safe open!!
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Post by nolongcolt on Nov 21, 2012 15:50:21 GMT -5
Had a good range session with mine today. After baking off 4 loads; 2 with H4895 and 2 with H335 I had a clear winner, H335. All using the Hornady spitzer 300 gr. I put 10 shots into a group under 3 inches at 100 yards with the peep sight. That may not sound all that great but for an iron sighted levergun with my 59 year old eyes on a gloomy day in WA state I was tickled! Both loads of that powder did way better than the H4895 where I had a lot of trouble with up and down spread. The last and best group was fired by covering the six inch bull with the front sight bead completely, and using the targets to either side to help align it all, and that gave my best group. I have been trying to use a six oclock hole most of the time and perhaps that is the mistake I am making due to the difficulty of actually holding to the same point shot to shot with a round bead on a round bull. Going to use the bullseye method from now on. Waiting for some Barnes Triple Shock bullets to show up today. Also slugged the bore on this gun and it is .412 inch. The Hornady and Barnes bullets are .411, however Woodleigh makes a 300 gr. of .412 diameter so will try that as well eventually, pricey though.
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Post by jfe on Nov 30, 2012 22:03:24 GMT -5
I bought one a while back. It was a Davidson special run and has a color case hardened finish on the receiver. I haven't put a peep sight on it yet but shooting factory open sights at 50mtrs (about all I can manage these days with the factory sights) it is very accurate with H4895. In fact at that range the holes cut each other with the best load. The rifle is not at all temperamental and feeding from the mag is flawless. I know they have tang safety and rebounding hammer but this model doesn't seem to receive the same sort of criticism leveled at the late model Win 86 & 92's.
FWIW my load is 58 gr of H4895 behind a Hornady 300 gr FN. This is below max in my rifle but all the same reduce the load and work up.
If you are into casting a good mould is RCBS 416-350 GC. Sized to 0.414/0.415, it works very nicely and can be pushed along quite briskly.
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Post by treborsnave on Nov 30, 2012 23:19:37 GMT -5
I've never handled an 1895 and am curious; how do you load the magazine? Through the open bolt?
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Post by toroflow on Dec 1, 2012 0:20:00 GMT -5
I've never handled an 1895 and am curious; how do you load the magazine? Through the open bolt? Yes, thru the open bolt, much the same as a bolt action rifle loads. |
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