I was left handed for 63 years then had a rotator cuff tear, so now shooting right handed. I use a DEWC too. But the SWC definitely works better for me at 50 yards. 25 yards yesterday with the DEWC and SWC. At 65 I have to use both hands now and a red dot.Nice work! I've been retraining myself with my 686 and wadcutters, DA shooting at 50 ft. My load thus far was 3.5 gr of Red Dot with a variety of wadcutter moulds, I use a Lyman 358063 DEWC BB, and, (of all things) a rather elderly Modern-Bond design J-358-610 a conventional design with a rather unusual slight radius on the meplat. For some reason this design just fascinates me. I'm back to 3-4 inch groups at 50 yards, but my POI is low with the 358063 and I think I'll try some 382 SAECO 38 SWC next trip and see where things end up. I'm one of those guys who doesn't chase sight settings all over the place, especially just to shoot a single load. I also have more work to do with my grip, I'm still pushing a bit right (left-handed).
Oh, I know, but that was the best of the day's four groups and I usually post my groups. And, what with vision-caused hairs in the eye piece, massive floaters and little black flies floating round inside my eyes, a wrinkled retina, out-of-round target bulls, and everything else that is wrong with my vision, I'm not particularly displeased with that group. I'm going to replace the Lyman 17 A's circular insert with a Lee Shaver, and see if that improves the sight picture.Groups of less than 25 shots don't mean much. FWIW
If 20 grains of 2400 under a 405-grain solid based bullet won't group from a 45/70, something is wrong. Alloy got too tough, lube is out of its temperature or pressure range, case necks need annealing, bullets too small, primers not lighting off uniformly for a number of possible reasons, stuff like that.
I see two different things in that grip. I see a bear claw and I also see a dog's face. Looks like a Doberman with his ears up.Not today, but Monday.
Ruger New Vaquero, Lee 358-158 RF, 13.5-grain of 2400, reactive steel targets from 25 to 50 yards. Fun stuff.
The grip bear is what caused me to buy my first gun, a 6" S&W Model 28. Hmmm . . . still shooting the .357.
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We have two major factions at Wilton; Unique shooters and 2400 shooters. We have proven time and time again that the 2400 outshoots Unique in .30-06 and many other calibers if you do the work to find the right load/bullet. But some are just not willing to leave Unique. Guess you get to a certain age, and you don't see a reason to change what has worked in the past.When shooting at 50-yard targets, 2400 outshoots Unique. The same thing happens with the 03A3.