What a great day at the range. Seldom does everything go so well, with so much fun. I am looking forward to doing it again.
This is the Performance Center 500 magnum. 10" barrel with a 3/4" muzzle brake. I am shooting my hand loaded 370 grain Ranier lead bullets with a copper gas check. These bullets have a pretty large meplat. A meplat is the flat area at the front of the bullet. The load I used is 33 grains of H110 powder. Velocity is listed as:
H110/W296 32.0 gr. 1,452 start
H110/W296 35.3 gr. 1,614 Maximum
This is with a 6" barrel. I'd guess that I am going at least 1525 fps with the 10" barrel length, which would be 1910 lbs of energy. That really spanks the .454 with a lot less recoil.
Overall, recoil was very good. No pain after nearly 50 rounds, just a nice shove with each round. It really looks much stouter than it is, I don't hold a real tight arm lock with it. I could really feel the gas coming back from the muzzle break, like a short blast of air. That was kind of neat.
Accuracy was much better than I expected it to be. 2" at 25 yards, from a rested position as shown, was easy. I have a red/green dot on it, about a $60 Walmart model. The funny thing is, these are the same red dots that were $150 a few years back. It held zero like a champ, and never slid in the mounts. It really could not slide, as I had the rings positioned so that it could not move in them. Usually a scope or red dot will slide forward under heavy recoil. However, like I said, the recoil was far from heavy. I have shot 357's, 44's, and 454's that had much stouter recoil. Especially with the 454 Redhawk, brutal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-bvmkzqv_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmdLntfHGk
I let four other people shoot it, it was fun to watch. The dread leading up to the shot was always much worse than the actual deed itself. Here are some photos of them. If you will look at the youngster, he is shooting from the proper rest position for a revolver. The area under the frame just in front of the trigger guard is called the chin. That is where you prop a revolver up when you rest it for a shot. To rest on the barrel shroud will affect accuracy because it interferes with the harmonics of the barrel.
The youngster did not want to shoot it, I tried and tried to get him, as did his father, who took a few shots. He did ask to pose for a few photographs. The adult is his father who hit the bullseye several times at 25 yards. I'd have liked to tried it at 50 and 100 yards, but that was against the rules at the range. I went to Advanced Bullets in Temple, Ga. Great folks there, I have been going to the range they have for several years. Good, good people. Only $5 per hour to shoot.
This is the Performance Center 500 magnum. 10" barrel with a 3/4" muzzle brake. I am shooting my hand loaded 370 grain Ranier lead bullets with a copper gas check. These bullets have a pretty large meplat. A meplat is the flat area at the front of the bullet. The load I used is 33 grains of H110 powder. Velocity is listed as:
H110/W296 32.0 gr. 1,452 start
H110/W296 35.3 gr. 1,614 Maximum
This is with a 6" barrel. I'd guess that I am going at least 1525 fps with the 10" barrel length, which would be 1910 lbs of energy. That really spanks the .454 with a lot less recoil.
Overall, recoil was very good. No pain after nearly 50 rounds, just a nice shove with each round. It really looks much stouter than it is, I don't hold a real tight arm lock with it. I could really feel the gas coming back from the muzzle break, like a short blast of air. That was kind of neat.
Accuracy was much better than I expected it to be. 2" at 25 yards, from a rested position as shown, was easy. I have a red/green dot on it, about a $60 Walmart model. The funny thing is, these are the same red dots that were $150 a few years back. It held zero like a champ, and never slid in the mounts. It really could not slide, as I had the rings positioned so that it could not move in them. Usually a scope or red dot will slide forward under heavy recoil. However, like I said, the recoil was far from heavy. I have shot 357's, 44's, and 454's that had much stouter recoil. Especially with the 454 Redhawk, brutal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-bvmkzqv_k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmdLntfHGk
I let four other people shoot it, it was fun to watch. The dread leading up to the shot was always much worse than the actual deed itself. Here are some photos of them. If you will look at the youngster, he is shooting from the proper rest position for a revolver. The area under the frame just in front of the trigger guard is called the chin. That is where you prop a revolver up when you rest it for a shot. To rest on the barrel shroud will affect accuracy because it interferes with the harmonics of the barrel.
The youngster did not want to shoot it, I tried and tried to get him, as did his father, who took a few shots. He did ask to pose for a few photographs. The adult is his father who hit the bullseye several times at 25 yards. I'd have liked to tried it at 50 and 100 yards, but that was against the rules at the range. I went to Advanced Bullets in Temple, Ga. Great folks there, I have been going to the range they have for several years. Good, good people. Only $5 per hour to shoot.
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