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Wad cutter 1911
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She is a tack driver at 50 yards. Producing 1-1/4 inch groups with a 200 grain cast SWC, CCI primer and 4.4 grains of N-310. She gets SHOT a LOT before cleaning. This is after shooting a 900 match and three NMC courses of fire.
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Sweet. [:D] It handles the wadcutters OK? I would expect some feeding problems with that flat fronted bullet.
My thoughts exactly
Im glad its accurate for you though.[:)] How many competitions have you used it in?[?]
Sweet. [:D] It handles the wadcutters OK? I would expect some feeding problems with that flat fronted bullet.
The bullets are cast SWC's like the Lyman 452460 and the Hensley and Gibbs #68. I have never had a failure to feed and only a couple of stove pipes in about 7,000 rounds. The stove pipes were from testing lighter charges.
Where did you get that fine looking Pistol[:I][:o)]
Some bony butt old coot found it under a pile of junk in a shed and found a fat guy to buy it....[:D][:D]
Im not digging the scope on the 1911....kinda makes me think of a double barrel shotgun with a synthetic stock...something just dosnt seem to jive right.[B)]
Im glad its accurate for you though.[:)] How many competitions have you used it in?[?]
I have put a few thousand rounds through it at paper targets, outdoors at 50 and 25 yards and 50 feet indoors.
The dot scope is really no advantage over irons for bullseye shooting, pistol accuracy is ALL trigger control. The dot simply helps old eyes keep shooting longer.
EDITHey Bruce you need to show the logo on the slide.
Sweet. [:D] It handles the wadcutters OK? I would expect some feeding problems with that flat fronted bullet.
i have my barrels throated, and polish the feed ramps, they feed anything, even bulged cases with swc's
nice one bpost
The Buck Mark is a little beat up.
She has led a VERY hard life, was used in Alaska in salt water to shoot halibut for 12 years before I went to a 686 with 148 grain bevel based wad cutters. That Buckmark has been soaked for days in salt water spray, knocked off the gunnel into the bilges, hosed off with WD-40 and kept firing. It was shot about 30,000 times by my sons and I before moving to Ohio.
When I started shooting Bullseye again I figured WTH I have it might as well shoot it!
Yes that Buckmark is beat to hell but I have not been able to get the fat man to purchase a 22 Rim fire from me I guess once burnt by a skinny old man he is not as easy of a fish to hook the second time. I guess Bruce is trying to take a lesson from the Guys that build RAT RODS makes everyone that is competing against him feel sorry for him until he blows their doors off [^][:D][}:)]
EDITHey Bruce you need to show the logo on the slide.
Good idea I will get a close up of the builders logo!!!
Here is the beater Buckmark:
Here is the MADORE built showing logo:
Here is the new addition to the Bullseye stable. I have a Weaver mount for it at home, along with a Volquartson match trigger kit. I'll put a 25MM Match Dot on it when funds permit.
What scope mount do you have on the 1911![?]
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What scope mount do you have on the 1911![?]
I don't know who made it but it sure is stout, I think Madore installed it when he built the gun, it has six screws holding to the slide and the metal is sculpted to funnel the empties out without a hiccup. I had to put the Warne six screw rings on it to keep the scope from moving. It is ROCK solid now....