.45 Colt Club - continued

w30wcf · Post by **w30wcf** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:30 pm

http://leverguns.sixgunner.com/topic.as ... hichpage=1

to continue:
Presently I have 4 single actions and one rifle. Bought my first Ruger in 1974 and my 1894 Marlin in 1997. These days, I am getting more into black powder. Here's a decent group fired with the Marlin @ the 300 meter (327 yards) steel Javelina gong with 40 grs. of Swiss FFG under a 250 gr. bullet lubed with SPG. back in Oct. 2007.

The javelina is 9" high x 22" long and is the 2nd group of silhouettes.

w30wcf

gon2shoot · Post by **gon2shoot** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:56 pm

That'll do

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:20 pm

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:13 pm

I'm with Griff again

and [8D]

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:15 pm

I've still got the four I had when the .45 Club started. Two revolvers and two lever actions.

W30WCF, I'd be grinning from ear to ear and back again if I could shoot groups like that. I don't care what powder I was using.

And that range, WOW, nothing around here like that.

Joe

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:20 pm

That's good shooting!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:21 pm

Jack--you snake in the grass!

Now I know why you always clean my clock at the levergun matches! BTW--where's that range at? It don't look like the McKean club.------------Sixgun

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:26 pm

Holy Cow 327yds

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Now that is some shooting right there.

Mike S. · Post by **Mike S.** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:46 pm

Is that the best you can do??

Just kidding.

That's some great shooting. I like to play with my .45 at 200 yds, but 327, wow thats a poke.

What kind of sights are you using?

Mike

Marlin .35 · Post by **Marlin .35** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:48 pm

That is some fantastic shooting. I'd have a hard time doing that with a scoped bolt!!!!! Congratulations!! You surely are a rifleman!!! Art

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:59 pm

One difference is with field shooting and not knowing the distance you can't figure the drop that close at long range. Shoot hair - hit hair. Then there is wind drift but great shots can do great work at known and practiced distances. But, it ain't the same.

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:21 am

Hey Fred maybe we can show him how it is done at the get together next month

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Noah Zark · Post by **Noah Zark** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:47 am

Sixgun wrote: BTW--where's that range at? It don't look like the McKean club.------------Sixgun

Looks a little like Ridgway.

Noah

w30wcf · Post by **w30wcf** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:26 am

Thank you for the kind words. On that particular day the conditions were very good and a solid benchrest was used so any one of you could have done the same thing if your eyesight was ok.

My '94 Marlin has a .06" diameter bead front sight (factory was .09") and a Lyman tang sight which certainly helped. I used a 6 o'clock hold.

I fired a total of 10 shots. It took 4 to get the right sight setting and the load was accurate enough to print a decent group. I was elated, to say the least!

Sixgun,
As Noah indicated, that marvelous range is located in Ridgway, PA. I could never shoot like that offhand!

w30wcf

Lastmohecken · Post by **Lastmohecken** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:30 am

That was good shooting, indeed. I wish we had a range like that where I live.