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Got out for a few rounds this morning. Only had one box of lite handloads, everything else I have is for stronger actions.
Hit's a couple inches high at twenty yards. Load was 6 grains of unique with a 250 gr. LRN. Going to try upping that to 6.5 on the Unique as see what that does. Action is pretty stiff but I'll bet a couple hundred rounds will smooth that right out.
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Looking forward to spending more time with it. It's a blast to shoot!

jb 8)
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Very nice.
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Very nice
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I love those. A couple years back I got to make a holster for an original that belongs to a friend.
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Very interesting. Never have seen one.
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A "Notch In The Hammer" back sight? That's an easy POI fix, right?
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Yes, the rear sight is in the hammer but I'm going to experiment w/ different loads.
That should solve the problem. :D

jb 8)
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Nice one. Not a top-break :wink:, but an old enough design to interest me.

I think it's only a matter of time before I have one of those...

FYI, I much prefer Universal (aka Universal Clays) versus Unique; I find it burns somewhat cleaner, and is a smidge more accurate and less powder-position-sensitive in lighter reloads. Some older fellas at the range turned me onto it for those reasons years ago, and I found they were right.

Tight groups.

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Awesome, grats on getting it, been wanting one myself for years. 8)
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2ndovc wrote:Yes, the rear sight is in the hammer but I'm going to experiment w/ different loads.
That should solve the problem. :D

jb 8)
Nice gift! Won't take much more speed to drop it that amount.
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Nice.
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Reckon you got a good family, they done you good with a fine sixgun.
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drop down in bullet weight as you up the fps...
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That's lovely. I recently converted one of my 1860 Armies to 45 LC. 'Course I'm shooting black in it and it's a blast! (that's for Blaine)
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Fantastic, don't worry about the sights, all the good guy's on the big screen just point and shoot, they hardly ever miss.
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'Course I'm shooting black in it and it's a blast! (that's for Blaine)
8) 8) Hey, blind squills find a nut every so often.... :P :lol:
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Griff wrote:drop down in bullet weight as you up the fps...

Forgot about that one. Thanks Griff!

jb 8)
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