I like to shoot this gun

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Nice shooting there!

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Last night I fired almost 500 wadcutters between two Blackhawks and a 686. I increased the distance to 25 yards and 30 yards at the 3x5 cards. I can now hit and get similar group size and performance at 25 yards where before I was hitting at 20. That 3x5 card is awfully small at 30 yards LOL! All revolver testing was fired off hand.

I also tested them from the Ruger 77/357 and it will feed from the magazine as long as I cycle the bolt briskly. If I cycle the bolt slowly it fails to feed. Some rifle testing was off hand and some was from a rest.

Shooting off hand from the bolt gun it's a one hole 5 shot group at 25 yards. If it was safe to do so I'm certain that it could bust carpenter bees. Rested 10 shot groups at 50 yards are grouping ok with a few Flyers. I am of the opinion that the Flyers may be due to the 4X Simmons shotgun scope and wobbly shooting table and shooter who needs to learn a lot more. For 50 yard testing I was shooting off of a rubber thing set on top of a desk at NRA headquarters basement gun range. I suspect my group size may be similar fired off hand -the rest I was using was uncomfortable. They're very quiet from the rifle.

I noticed that my revolver group size at 50 yards at the 9-in white paper plates is now clustered the size of a tangerine instead of spread randomly all over the plate.

The biggest difference is that I've adjusted the Dillon powder measure slightly increase dispensing.

This past week I've been priming brass and loading 38 Special wad cutters every night after work.

I increased the powder charge to 3 G of Bullseye.

I stayed up late last night I deprimed all of them, and right now they're taking a bath in the Frankford Arsenal wet tumbler with stainless steel pins and Turtle Wax wash and wax.

Next week I get to do the same thing.

Life is good I love shooting pistols!

[44 AMP]

The biggest difference is that I've adjusted the Dillon powder measure slightly increase dispensing.

Don't ignore the fact that one of the differences is that you are getting more shooting practice.

Everyone is different, and for some shooting skill increases in steady incremental advances, and for others, its a plateau thing. Some people reach a certain level, and seem to stay there, until at some later point, for "no apparent reason" they start shooting better, having reached their next plateau level.

This happened to me, shooting DA years ago. I was never, and still aren't much of a DA shooter, but in my 20s, I almost literally couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from the inside, shooting DA.

Then, about the time I turned 30, and without any real practice, suddenly, I was able to ring the steel plates pretty regularly shooting DA. Not fast, I didn't even try for that, but I was accurate enough to make a good percentage of hits, and I hadn't/wasn't doing anything differently than before, or not at least that I could tell. I'd just reached a higher "plateau" level without knowing I was getting there, until I did.

Good, you're getting better, you're getting better groups further away. Sure, its the gun, its the ammo, but its ALSO the shooter. Keep it up!

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Thank you.

[CajunBass]

Originally Posted by jetinteriorguy

Whenever I need an ego boost shooting wise it’s time to dig out some wadcutters and shoot my S&W Model 14-3. It always makes me look better than I am. A revolver and wadcutters is always a recipe for fun accurate shooting.

I do the same with with one of my Colt Pythons and 38 wadcutters. It makes even me look like I know what I'm doing.

But not as well as the OP. Well done Sir.

[jetinteriorguy]

Originally Posted by 44 AMP

Don't ignore the fact that one of the differences is that you are getting more shooting practice.

Everyone is different, and for some shooting skill increases in steady incremental advances, and for others, its a plateau thing. Some people reach a certain level, and seem to stay there, until at some later point, for "no apparent reason" they start shooting better, having reached their next plateau level.

This happened to me, shooting DA years ago. I was never, and still aren't much of a DA shooter, but in my 20s, I almost literally couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from the inside, shooting DA.

Then, about the time I turned 30, and without any real practice, suddenly, I was able to ring the steel plates pretty regularly shooting DA. Not fast, I didn't even try for that, but I was accurate enough to make a good percentage of hits, and I hadn't/wasn't doing anything differently than before, or not at least that I could tell. I'd just reached a higher "plateau" level without knowing I was getting there, until I did.

Good, you're getting better, you're getting better groups further away. Sure, its the gun, its the ammo, but its ALSO the shooter. Keep it up!

This is so true, especially when learning to shoot DA. Even though my preference is DA revolvers I never really got into shooting them in DA too much until about 12 years ago when I picked up a S&W model 67 and started shooting it in DA. The trigger on this gun just worked great in DA and I started really enjoying shooting it and actually started to improve a lot. These days I pretty much have all my revolvers slicked up for DA and almost exclusively shoot them this way. I’d say 95% of my shooting is DA, mainly because as I’ve aged handguns in general are for SD use and with my eyes bullseye shooting is almost a thing of the past. Besides, I get a kick out of emptying any of my pistolas rapid fire into a four inch circle at ten yards consistently. I find this skill for me is very satisfying, although I’ll still occasionally have a good day shooting for bullseye accuracy with my model 14 and wadcutters or my Ruger Mk III target with a 5” bull barrel and ever so sweet trigger.