Jeeze Louise!

[rdnck]

I fooled around and leaded my new Shiloh Roughrider shooting greasers in this hot weather. After getting the lead out, I decided to run some paper patched rounds through it to make sure all the lead was out.

I loaded 44 rounds of a 507 grain round nosed flat base bullet patched up to .447 over 69 grains of KIK 2f . I fired 14 rounds without using a blow tube or wiping, and the gun was HOT when I quit. No lead, and the last 5 shots on a freshly painted gong at 410 yards resulted in one of the best groups I have ever shot at that distance. One bullet splat, you can see the imprints of three of the five shots--the other two vanished in the lead smear. Center to center, as near as I can tell, the group goes exactly one inch. The group is still on the gong, and as soon as it cools off from the 102 degree temperature, I'm going down range and take a picture of it.

Sometimes I wonder why I fool with anything else. The gun cleaned up with four patches.