40-50 sbn

[powderburner]

Stephen ,it is a 18 .the 35 rounds I shot the other day required 1 breath down bore and it cleaned with 3 patches ,like its supposed to , the last round was on target as was the first.
Kurt , no it is a heavy half, kinda like shooting a 22.. it really hangs nice off hand,

[J.B.]

These traditional chambers have me fascinated. The idea of no sizing and patching to bore has me sorely tempted. I gather 1/18" in the 40's was a traditional twist rate , rather than the 1/16" they ran in my sons 40/70 SS ?
Hell.. Shilohs dont have blemishes, only character. Should have figured Kurt would have had a double headed penny.

it aint a blemish it is an id knot. the load is powder dropped to half way up the neck, compressed down to the base.a 30 wad / grease cookie 30 wad and for now a 285 gn patched bullet with a vellum wrap. This load needs no tooling to reload .the fired case is tight to the bullet with this combo, Rinse load and shoot ,, with barrel sights I got on out to 600 with 3 rounds per target . next run is on paper. maybe even hang some tang sights on it. its exactly what I was wanting. I am starting with Einsford 2f

[Stephen Borud]

Good deal Dean, it's shooting like its suppose too. I need to get some stuff ordered for mine, one of these days it's going to be done.

Stephen

[powderburner]

Stephen , I have a bunch of 285s loaded but I also have some of 265s I am using the bigger bullet to blow out the cases faster as it is a pretty low pressure load , You better get to gathering , it is a neat little round.prelimanary testing shows the edge goes to the 265 for accuracy , but until the pile is shot I am not going to pass judgement ,
I had to go look at the "blemish " in the picture , the stock is figured and the blemish is a change in direction of the flame pattern , interesting it showed up as it did in the picture , it does not show in the hand.

[Don McDowell]

Hmmm Powderburner shootin a weany gun....?

[powderburner]

it is pretty funny all right , but if I get it working I may be able to con my lovely wife into shooting with me, she wont shoot the big rifles .. There is a method to my madness.

[Don McDowell]

Oh you cunning little devil you.... LOL
Hope your plan works!

[powderburner]

me too ,,,,, she is a little flnchy with the recoil and dont like noise , both of these things are surprisingly missing with the 40-50.

[Don McDowell]

Watched Dean Scoggins shoot one of those at Alliance once, did real well with everything except the bear(970 yds) and the 1000 yd.

[powderburner]

it seems to hold well in the wind , I was shooting it at 600 yesterday forming more brass and if I doped the wind right it hit , I think it might be a pretty good mid range ctg,