Good bad day

by Dave B @, Alamogordo New Mexico, Saturday, October 07, 2023, 15:17 (224 days ago)

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Sent a few cylinders off to Fermin a little over a week ago, went out today to give them a test run. The NM Flattop 45 shot as well as ever, only noticeable difference was the leading, before it had always leaded just a bit, even with powder coated bullets, it also was loathe to chamber a 45-270SAA bullet sized .452, both of those issues are now resolved, leading, none, nada, I mean zero, zilch, and it rand the 45-270SAA bullets like a champ. Amazingly, even with my diminishing eyesight, it shoots almost as accurately as does my FA 454. The 10mm shot well with the 180gr heavy clad bullets from Xtreme Bullets, and despite recently acquiring 300 pieces of Starline 38-40 brass, and managing to load up a box of 20 to try, I remembered the ammo, but not the cylinder, I'm kicking my own butt, try again on Columbus Day hopefully.

Dave

Ran 40 rounds of cast

by Dave B @, Alamogordo New Mexico, Monday, October 09, 2023, 15:04 (222 days ago) @ Dave B

Through the 38-40 Winchester cylinder. Good accuracy at 25 yards of shooting sticks, and zero leading from the 194gr cup point GC and powder coated bullets over Blue Dot, velocity was just a wee bit under 1000fps. Love the 38-40, it is so easy to shoot, easy to see why it was the 3rd most popular chambering by Colt in their SAA.

Dave

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