Fully agreed and its why I always say, don't just list a volume, get it on a scale and list what weight your measure actually is. I can then translate that to my volume measure.
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Well even weight is batch variable so volume is still more consistent over all than is weight from my experience.
Another variable is the amount of fines left in the cans that mixes with the grains. It doesn't hurt to re-screen or "sock" each can of some powders like Goex or Elephant for more consistency. The fines will provide all the pan powder one will ever use.
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Precisely! I never got into weighing my charges until I had a fellow here run the same powder charges and the bullets I sent him so the only way to be on the same page is to weigh it.
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Ain’t that the truth! Even if you present it to them…
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And still that variable. But I’m more than good with within reason, a small field it should fall in. I feel any listed results by an accurate measure gives a good idea with a variable of +/- X fps. I’m more than okay with a good idea.
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Likewise! I guess we’re far then?
what most do not understand is the Ruger uses a .45 Colt barrel and the twist of 1 in 16 is way too fast for a RB. Shoot them with 20 gr and a filler and they do well. But for deer I use 41 gr of Swiss FFFG for 1102 FPS. ONLY close range shots because at 50 it sucks. However it will kill deer just fine at 20 yards or less.
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One finds that weight variability is far more inconsistent for long and mid range black powder cartridge competition by actual range testing than is volume measuring. This is the reason top competitors will not mix powder batches but will work up a new load when they exhaust a supply.
It is also one of the reasons they all use a drop tube to compact powder in cases so as not to fracture powder grains and change grain size which effects weight, volume and burn rate.
Some will re-screen or even "sock" their powder before loading to eliminate the fines that give them more extreme spread in fps. This is a very big deal effecting trajectory path at extreme range that hand gun shooting will never reveal but of course is still present to a lessor degree.
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Why not use a bullet for hunting? There’s a few commercial examples available, or you could create your own designs like I have. My Remington NMA also has a 1:16” twist and I’ve been working on fine tuning their most accurate hunting load starting at 25 grns and so far is 33 grns of weighed 3F Olde Eynsford in the NMA and 38 grns in the ROA, and the excess chamber space is quite similar and so I’ll be creating a universal bullet for them that looks to weigh ~235 +/-, it’ll be a screamer for sure and will be plenty accurate much further than 25 yds.
Actually, Ruger uses a Ruger 45 cal barrel and Uberti's offerings (across the board save for belt pistols) have 1:18" twist (since early 2000's). Pietta uses slow twist in their Colt open-top platform revolvers but fast twist in their Remington platform (maybe 1:16" (looks a tad faster than Uberti's)).
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Are these hammers ones you make?Here's the "thing" !
Super Blackhawk and Bisely hammers.
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They are basically "drop in" replacements. The only adjustment I've had to do is "dress" a pawl (hand) a little. They're perfect!!
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What bore should it be?
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My .357 Mag Korth didn't have any marks on the cylinder. It was used when I bought in 1982 for four times the price of a similar spec S&W, and I put an honest ten thousand through it before the Day of Doom in 1997 when we 'lost' our centre-fire cartridge-loading handguns on mainland GB.
Apropos the 'hand-in' - actually a $200,000,000 buy-in - an acquaintance of mine, who worked in a racing car development business, used a micro water-jet cutter to slice his Colt Gold Cup into 120 slices - just like a salami.... He warned the police officer taking it in not to touch it with his bare hands, and using a pencil in the muzzle, showed him why. The police officer was very annoyed - 'You can't do that!' 'Yes, I can', was his resplone, 'right now it belongs to me - you get it when you sign for it'.
The Pietta Rems are a lot slower twist and I saw no difference in performance accuracy wise with either one.
