JT
YEARS AGO I BOUGHT A GREAT WESTERN
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 08:38

.357. Actually my friend in Nevada who was always finding good stuff for me messed up on this one. He bought it as ivory gripped which turned out to be plastic and the front sight was messed up. At least he got it on the cheap. Since I have a Colt barrel on hand I decided this would be the easiest way to fix the front sight. Took it to my gunsmith at Shapel's and when I went back to get it he said this gun will never shoot the reason being a range rod drop down the barrel did not line up with a single chamber. So when I shot it I started with my warm up loads. These are cast bullet loads where I'm not so perfect bullet wound up being loaded in the cartridge case. The first six rounds in this gun which had no chambers lining up with the barrel resulted in a one-hole group at 25 yards. It still shoots cast bullets just fine. Somehow they find their way out of the chamber throat and wiggle down the forcing cone and into the barrel and everything works just fine.