Thank you all for the nice compliments. I was really quite surprised by how nice the wood is.
rafter-7 wrote:You know i just had a thought and its black powder and paper patch i think that would be interesting to say the least
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You have to have a rather "long" throat in the chamber to be able to seat a paper-patch bullet. The normal .45 Colt throat is rather short, so the bullet engages the rifling pretty quickly. A PP throat is about an ¼ inch longer, so the paper patch leading edge isn't disturbed by the rifling.
Well... while I wait for the casting pot to warm up, (gotta cast some more bullets for this weekend, only have about 50 already cast, need about 150-200 total), I took it out and shot it. Didn't have a target set up, but... shame on me, about 35 yards from the rear of the barn is an open steel gate. With about a 6"x6" square steel plate. Latch is on the other side, plate is about 3/8" thick, and I don't care if I dent it.
Used the open barrel sight for shot #1. Ding, right where the front sight was, CENTER HIT! WOO! HOO!
Last nite I located my tang sight insert assorment. The three for my model 94 tang sight have too large diameter of threads. However, I have three from some other sight (who knows where the sight went), that fit perfectly. Although they are all about ¾" in diameter, they have 3 different size aperatures. Taking the largest, I put it in the Browning sight.
So, for shot number 2, I flipped up the tang sight, and since it sits just a tad higher than the rear barrel sight, I held at the bottom edge of the plate. Ding, right on top of the first hit! So, the tang gives me about a 3" higher P.O.I. than the barrel sight at the same 35 yards. Probably ready for the 50 yard targets on Thursday! I'm callin' it competition ready!
Just got done putting a little cold blue on the old aperature, and looking good. Shouldn't get any glare off the dark blue and rough, pebbled surface.
This might just be the rifle I need for Cowboy Silhoutte in a pistol caliber... if anyone holds matchs for pistol caliber single shots!