Very nice! Your first impression on how she shoots?
It shoots like a laser. The rear sight is not much to my liking, but it works. The front bead covers about 3.5" at 50 yards and that was as far as I shot it so far, but even looking right into the sun at a shaded target I managed to put ten into 3" with 8 being into two. I really wish my range was facing north instead of south and uphill, but that's what I have for now. At 25 it stacked five in the same hole, but the light was a LOT better.
Apparently I'm going to have to cast some more bullets. It's been a while since I did any serious .45 Colt loading and the only bullets I had lubed and ready were 50 from a test batch of lube that didn't work out so well in other calibers, so today was the day. The lube was Longhorn lube, a mix of beeswax, Maxima K2 ester oil, Vaseline, and lots of Ivory soap. 7.3 grains of Universal and an Accurate 250-ish grain bullet did the trick. I emptied some odds and ends of various boxes of test ammo so I could clean the brass, overall this rifle ate everything I had loaded except the Lee 305 WFN crimped in the lower crimp groove (it would chamber no problem but wouldn't clear the end of the magazine tube and thus hung up the lifter).
John, just for you I loaded a dummy round with the 45-270-SAA Keith MP bullet and it cycles fine crimped in the groove, sized .4525" and seated to 1.585" overall length.