Range report soon, Henry bbx 45c, and smith 1854 45c

[DsGrouse]

I've got one more set of items to load up, some 200 grain LSW, berry's 250grn and 185 grain xtp's

I'm loading all these with Hodgdon's CFEP. Most of them are Rifle only. I'm running a little over 8.0 grains of CFEP.
Pictures of the ammo.


Some 300-grain xtp on the left, and some 240-grain xtp mags.



I'll shoot 10 shots per rifle at 50yds. Hopefully, I'll be better at putting these on paper.

My silly hot loads of H110 that I need to pull down. I've no desire to shoot these.

[DsGrouse]

The lengthy substack article.
https://open.substack.com/pub/evandesha ... d&r=1k0ilr

[North Country Gal]

Should be very interesting. Looking forward to your report.

[Hatchdog]

Nice job with the color identifier's. Hope you get great results after all your hard work.

[DsGrouse]

I loaded the last of my test rounds.
Left to right:
Matts 280 grain Kieth SWC,
Matts 305 grain SWC GC,
Blue bullets 320 seated to 1.60 (it has two crimp groves.)


Left to right again:
185grn Hornady XTP
185grn Hornady XTP +0.5 grains
190grn LSWC
250grn Berrys plated
300grn factory seconds JSP (sierra if I am not mistaken.)

[DsGrouse]

It was not the Henry 45c or the Smith, it was a few loads for my Freedom Arms model 83.

Have pity on me, I am typing this out on my phone.


Matt's 250grn waddcutter, and Matt's 250grn Kieth swc, both loaded over 8.2 grains of cfep.

I also shot the remaining loaded Matt's 260 grn webly .458 bullet (sized to .452) also over 8.2 grns cfep.

10 shots or so at 50 yards with the 260grn Webley rounds. Average of 910fps for the webley rounds. The wadcutters left impressive holes.


I moved the rear sight over and went outside in the 38 degree weather and wind.

More shots from 25yds.

The 250 wadcutters averaged 921 fps,
The 250 Kieth SWCs averaged 956 fps.
For a pistol guy, i lack any amount of practice with a single action like the freedom arms 83.

I had a blast. My groups from 30ft.




I'll post the rest when i get home

[North Country Gal]

Very nice work. Would love to see some pics of that FA.

[DsGrouse]

Very nice work. Would love to see some pics of that FA.

It's now wearing the 45 Colt brass bead front sight, not the 454c front sight, as shown in these pics.


Gratuitous pics of the 715


On to the next.
Henry BBX .357 with my hand-me-down 158 LSWC at 50yds. To be honest, these are not the best. I think I lacked enough flare on the case when seating. I've since swapped out (45colt) for a redding two-step expander over Lee powder through expansion. I'll need to swap out my lee for my reading expansion die. I bet the result of the Lee expansion die was a lot of shaved bullets. These were difficult to keep on target. Even though they averaged 969.0 fps over 21 shots and an SD of 20.2
These two groups are 20 rounds of the 38spl; I fired over 300 at various dots with similar results.



I suppose another factor could be the increased bullet jump for 38spl, compared to 357 mag.

My aim point here is the 0. I used American Eagle 158grn 357 mag. For having a squidgy aim point I could barely see, this isn't a bad 10 shot group. Two on the far right are from another dot. I used these 10 shots to clean any lead build up from those 300 158grn LSWC out of the barrel.


The second group of 357 mag.


In my third group, 6 shots (all I had loaded) 180 grain Hornaday XTP, 1075.1 FPS average, SD of 6.4


Both the 357 mag and the 45 colt hit the swinger target with authority. Pay no attention to the legs in the target, really, honest it was not me. Grumble grumble family sighting in their rifles, brand new fricken target.

[North Country Gal]

More great shooting. Love the Dan Wesson. Did you get it engraved or have it done?

[DsGrouse]

It's a blem. I had it engraved 7 or 8 years ago.