My Birthday Gift
- Junk Yard Dog
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Re: My Birthday Gift
These are easy to shoot, some of the larger ones can be a handful with full loads. 1847 Colt Walker, 4 1/2 pounds of steel, near five with the loads, 40-50 grains ( the real full load for the '47 was 60 grains FFFG) powder, and then the blow a hole in the world. Or you just blow up, the Walkers did that sometimes.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: My Birthday Gift
I stuck with 24 grains, I'll probably try a full load once just to see what it feels like. ![big grin :biggrin:](./images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
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1940 Tula M91/30
1941 Tula Nagant Revolver
1942 Tikka M91
1943 Izhevsk M91/30
1944 Izhevsk M44
1952 Polish M44
1954 Chinese T53
- A1RADIOMAN
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Re: My Birthday Gift
Good deal Mike ,these are like most other firearms if you change the load it may change the point of impact on the target.Mike wrote:At seven yards I shot about a 2" group centered about 2" high and right, my wife did the same. I can either modify the front sight or just learn where to aim to hit what I want.A1RADIOMAN wrote:OK so did you hit the target? How do it shoot?
I would try different powder loads before changing the sites.
They are a lot of fun.
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Plato
- Junk Yard Dog
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Re: My Birthday Gift
Full load for a brasser is 30 grains, 25 would be safer.Mike wrote:I stuck with 24 grains, I'll probably try a full load once just to see what it feels like.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt