jonk
08-04-2014, 06:10 PM
Oxymoron I know.
So, I think with a little tinkering and new bullet, I may be on top of things with my musket; carbine I'm making steady progress in cutting my hit time, same with smoothbore. It's just the revolver that's eating at me now.
1863 Armi San Marco Remington New Army.
Had Eric Schuessler cut it for a dovetail and make and install a higher front sight. I drifted it for windage, then filed from a pistol rest until it was hitting dead on. And from a rest, using a .457 ball, 23 gr of 3f goex, and Mobil 1 synthetic grease, it will put every shot into about a 2" circle at 25 yards. So the gun can shoot.
When I go to shoot it one handed offhand though, well... let's just say that a result of 'not a single shot on paper' is not unheard of. And we're talking the sighter/scoring combo paper.
Now: it could well be me. But I can shoot my 1873 .45 colt at 25 yards one handed and at least keep them all on paper. It has a similar balance to it. So before I say 'it's just me' I wanted to ask if there's any other tricks you can suggest. And if it IS me, if you have any thoughts on what I might be doing? I know with one handed handgun shooting, in general, I have a tendency to break up and right, probably the result of too much trigger finger and/or squeezing the whole grip... but if that was the case, I should still (somewhere) on the cardboard backer, see *some*semblance of a group somewhere.
Any common issues for a gun that shoots well from a bench to check, or bad behaviors I should look for?
So, I think with a little tinkering and new bullet, I may be on top of things with my musket; carbine I'm making steady progress in cutting my hit time, same with smoothbore. It's just the revolver that's eating at me now.
1863 Armi San Marco Remington New Army.
Had Eric Schuessler cut it for a dovetail and make and install a higher front sight. I drifted it for windage, then filed from a pistol rest until it was hitting dead on. And from a rest, using a .457 ball, 23 gr of 3f goex, and Mobil 1 synthetic grease, it will put every shot into about a 2" circle at 25 yards. So the gun can shoot.
When I go to shoot it one handed offhand though, well... let's just say that a result of 'not a single shot on paper' is not unheard of. And we're talking the sighter/scoring combo paper.
Now: it could well be me. But I can shoot my 1873 .45 colt at 25 yards one handed and at least keep them all on paper. It has a similar balance to it. So before I say 'it's just me' I wanted to ask if there's any other tricks you can suggest. And if it IS me, if you have any thoughts on what I might be doing? I know with one handed handgun shooting, in general, I have a tendency to break up and right, probably the result of too much trigger finger and/or squeezing the whole grip... but if that was the case, I should still (somewhere) on the cardboard backer, see *some*semblance of a group somewhere.
Any common issues for a gun that shoots well from a bench to check, or bad behaviors I should look for?