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Ok, here's the range report for the Army I traded for a bit ago. Overall, I'm happy with the performance of the Army, but I do have a few issues to work out to get her in frequent-shooter shape.
25gn FFF Jack's Powder, .454 Hornadys, target +- 25m
First off, a little eye-candy... I had installed my Tresos on the cylinder from the '51 Navy, and they threaded on just fine. Sadly, I soon discovered they are a touch too long for the '60, and after they were capped, they hung up on the frame. The cylinder cycled about half-way, and stopped dead, but the hammer continued all the way back as it should. I was 100% confident the hand was totally screwed, and I had to manually rotate the cylinder with every shot afterwards. But there appears to be no damage, and the cylinder cycles fine after cleaning. Not sure what's up with that.
I proceeded to fire a full cylinder from the over-barricade position. Here's the target:
On the second cylinder, the caps started misfiring on the third chamber. I must have replaced about 20 caps, and just before throwing in the towel, finally saw this little nugget hiding in there. It took up just enough hammer drop to dent the caps w/o setting them off.
Once that noobish oversight was cleared up, I moved on to a freshly loaded cylinder, and changed positions. This time I sat down and rested the loading lever hinge on the log pictured above. I did this to steady the weapon as much as possible, and remove as much of my physical influence as I could. Target came out pretty similar, but closed up a bit.
My final note is on the barrel. I believe the breech is much smaller than the cylinder bores. When disassembling for cleaning, I found the barrel was jammed forward enough to embed a deep notch in the wedge. The rounds I found were also heavily mutilated, versus the '51 Navy balls which are just a little wonky from meeting with the clay-filled tires. I forgot to take pics of them, I'll try to remember to post some later for opinions.
25gn FFF Jack's Powder, .454 Hornadys, target +- 25m
First off, a little eye-candy... I had installed my Tresos on the cylinder from the '51 Navy, and they threaded on just fine. Sadly, I soon discovered they are a touch too long for the '60, and after they were capped, they hung up on the frame. The cylinder cycled about half-way, and stopped dead, but the hammer continued all the way back as it should. I was 100% confident the hand was totally screwed, and I had to manually rotate the cylinder with every shot afterwards. But there appears to be no damage, and the cylinder cycles fine after cleaning. Not sure what's up with that.
I proceeded to fire a full cylinder from the over-barricade position. Here's the target:
On the second cylinder, the caps started misfiring on the third chamber. I must have replaced about 20 caps, and just before throwing in the towel, finally saw this little nugget hiding in there. It took up just enough hammer drop to dent the caps w/o setting them off.
Once that noobish oversight was cleared up, I moved on to a freshly loaded cylinder, and changed positions. This time I sat down and rested the loading lever hinge on the log pictured above. I did this to steady the weapon as much as possible, and remove as much of my physical influence as I could. Target came out pretty similar, but closed up a bit.
My final note is on the barrel. I believe the breech is much smaller than the cylinder bores. When disassembling for cleaning, I found the barrel was jammed forward enough to embed a deep notch in the wedge. The rounds I found were also heavily mutilated, versus the '51 Navy balls which are just a little wonky from meeting with the clay-filled tires. I forgot to take pics of them, I'll try to remember to post some later for opinions.
