Reeder Custom Guns - I was trying to shoot a heel type .41 Long Colt

WB
I was trying to shoot a heel type .41 Long Colt
Tuesday, April 02, 2019, 14:43

I had no bullets but found a .40 cal. .401" cast bullet worked pretty well loaded "backwards" with the truncated nose pointing back into the case. I basically loaded "blanks" with a bullet poked in the case end and placed them into the chamber one at a time to shoot my target groups.

I got 4-5" 5-shot groups at 33 yds. The "backward" .40's hit dead on the butt ends with no instability I could tell. The gun was on old Colt DA Navy 1903 Second Issue. It has not spoken in quite a while and it was a real hoot to hear it go BANG!

Loaded some 480 Achilles ammo this morning - Jim Taylor, 2019-04-02, 09:02
- what is the base case? (nm) - charlie A, 2019-04-02, 13:50
  - .45 Colt (nm) - Jim Taylor, 2019-04-02, 17:18
- Did you cast the bullets after you had the gun coming back, - ChrisG, 2019-04-02, 10:52
  - I have a bunch of the flat nose bullets - Jim Taylor, 2019-04-02, 11:06
    - I was trying to shoot a heel type .41 Long Colt - WB, 2019-04-02, 14:43
    - Gotcha. Have fun! (nm) - ChrisG, 2019-04-02, 11:10
- Very neat! (nm) - Derek, 2019-04-02, 10:03
- Unique opportunity after a decade, have fun! (nm) - Rsim, 2019-04-02, 09:13