Mine shoots to POA with balls and high with various bullets. You can contact Ruger and they’ll send you the .45 Colt front sight blade. I’ve had mine a long time and have yet to swap it out. I really need to as I created a very heavy bullet for it and would like it to be easier to aim.
Those look precisely like the one I designed with Accurate Molds. Interesting.
They're a great design. I assume they must be good for hunting, they cut paper targets as well as a target wadcutter
I’m not so sure they’d do so well hunting as they don’t have a lot of mass, but more importantly they’re shorter than they are long and so may not track straight. The 195 grn version I made would be better as it’s the length of a ball at .460”, and these may or may not begin to tumble at 50 yds. Not that I’d be shooting that far though.
Years back on one of these BP forums a guy was looking at a cast Lee 160 grn bullet and heeled it I guess. Anyhow he was figuring it to be about the length of a ball and so wouldn’t take up powder room. I liked that idea but I like a wider meplat and my version ended up weighing so much more than I began work on the 170 grn version. It could potentially be a hot rod if one wanted maximum power. I only created them because I was told that my Pietta NMA likely had the slower 1:30” twist and wouldn’t shoot conicals/bullets well at all so I made these. Turns out it has a 1:16” twist.
I need to get the 195 grain mold. I swear I've shot the 170's at fifty yards and didn't see tumbling. I do a lot of 50 yard bullseye shooting with my old armies.
I don’t know that they would, but a member here felt they might. He also shoots some sort of matches at 50 yds with pistols as well.
And so you have me curious about the loads you’ve tried, what’s worked and what didn’t.
Interesting. I only have the one ROA and working from 25 grns I found it’s most accurate charge to be 35 grns, which when using 3F Olde Eynsford would weigh ~37.5 grns. And it never mattered what projectile I used (ball and a handful of bullets).
Balls shoot the smallest groups, but the lee 220 bullets made specifically for the ROA shoot the most accurate (of bullets), but high. I've also tried the lee reals and they are a bit less accurate.
I put 37 or 38 grains of 777 in my cylinder and used the 170 bullets and they barely touched the powder.
I’m no pistolero by any means, and 15 yds isn’t all that far, but I didn’t see any real discernible difference between a ball and bullet. I had wanted to do some shooting at 25 yds but I’d have to rent a stall, but hadn’t. I’m also not shooting from a rest. Nearly all of my shooting once I found their more accurate loads were with Olde Eynsford. I have and shoot Triple 7 as well, and it looks like Goex and their Olde E are a thing of the past so I’ll be shooting more T7 now.
