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I shot my .22 Jet today. It was a real blast. I did not take my Chronograph as there is a big storm heading our way. I only had the cylinder bind up three times. I was trying out different loads of 2400 and Unique. 2400 looks to be superior to Unique in my gun. It shot the .223 Hornet bullets just fine. I am looking forward to doing a lot of shooting with this revolver.
 
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I shot my .22 Jet today. It was a real blast. I did not take my Chronograph as there is a big storm heading our way. I only had the cylinder bind up three times. I was trying out different loads of 2400 and Unique. 2400 looks to be superior to Unique in my gun. It shot the .223 Hornet bullets just fine. I am looking forward to doing a lot of shooting with this revolver.
 
I guess you do know about keeping the cylinder squeaky clean, free of grease or oil, same goes for the rounds. They are addicting.
 
I bought a 6" 1961 Jet back in 1974 and untill the late 1980s it was my only .22 revolver. Shot so much Jet out of that gun the forcing cone looks like a funnel.

Have not shot any Jet ammo out of it since a coyote hunt in Arizona in 1995 but it still gets a lot of .22 Long Rifle ammo from the extra cylinder.

Please post your chrono results when you have the time. As I recall my gun ran btween 1700-1900 fps using 2400, Unique, Blue Dot and H110.

Bob
 
Just remembered I have an old article from the July 1977 SHOOTING TIMES Magazine by Dick Metcalf.

Using an 8 3/8" barreled M53:

.223 Speer 40 grain Spirepoint/8.5 Blue Dot/1992 fps

.223 Speer 45 grain Spitzer/10.2 IMR4227/1868 fps

.222 Hornady FP/9.4 AL8/2007 fps

.223 Sierra 40 grain Hornet/8.5 Blue Dot/1985 fps

.223 Sierra 45 grain Hornet/10.2 IMR4227/1854 fps

.222 Remington SP/8.5 Blue Dot/ 1972 fps

Factory Remington from M53s:

8 3/8" 1986

6" 1844

4" 1607

TC Contender 10" 2587

Bob
 
Superman:
Thanks for the load info. I just picked up a can of Blue Dot. I shall give it a try. If the weather if decent next Friday I may try and get some velocities from my Jet.
 
You guys are making me cry. I recently sold my 4 in, my 6 inch, and my 8 3/8 inch. Never fired any of them. Only had them for about 25 years!
 
What kind of accuracy were you getting for each load?
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"What kind of accuracy were you getting for each load?"

I was shooting 25 yards off hand. I was just trying the gun out. Accucracy was on a par for the other guns I was shooting (19-4 6", 48 6" and 34-1 4"). I will try it off a rest at 50 yards over my Chronograph next time weather permitting. I will post any results at that time.
 
Funny how our discussions on some guns and calibers lie dormant, then all of a sudden everyone wants to talk about them. Today at the gunshow we had a running series of those discussions. And I found a relatively cheap box of ammo!
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One guy came along and wanted to know if we've got a Jet box for sale!
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Right. Those don't occur at every show.

My experience has been that I get better performance from the .222 bullets. I get pressure signs much earlier from the .223 Hornet bullets, and its worse still with .224 size. I generally load my Jet ammo pretty light and use .222 size bullets. That has the consequence of making my brass last a long time. Accuracy is good for me (as good as I can shoot.) Muzzle blast is significant. Its enough that I've just adopted a habit of using both ear plugs and muffs. I'm still deaf.
 
Originally posted by Geronimo Jim:
You guys are making me cry. I recently sold my 4 in, my 6 inch, and my 8 3/8 inch. Never fired any of them. Only had them for about 25 years!
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Jim,
Your Jet is in wonderful hands....
it does shoot well....
Here's a photo of the 4" with the Roper grips I got from Keith....

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Terry
 
Blue Dot has a rep for fireballs in most calibers. Its great in the other magnum loadings, too. Years ago on a "guy campout" we had one guy along that was kind of sissyfied. He didn't own a gun, was kind of scared of them, and had a bunch of other, non-outdoorsman traits. When he decided he had to take a dump, he got in his truck and drove the 2 miles out to Kentucky 80 (its since been changed to 1956 or some other number). Then he traveled 8 more miles to a real porcelin toilet!
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About an hour later we heard his Toyota truck buzzing on the narrow trail. He was coming back, 3# lighter! Everyone discussed how to best scare him (he had no crap left, we assumed, so we couldn't scare that out of him.) I took action. I just walked over to the trail and stood behind one of our Giants of the forest, about 4 feet in diameter. As he passed I pointed my M19 straight up and let one go. He about wrecked. He never knew who dun-it. Buy the time he got the truck parked we were all sitting around the fire, laughing hysetrically. No other powder will do the fireball routine as well as Blue Dot.
 
There is a beautiful model 53 for sale on consignment at a local gun shop, it has a small scope mounted on it. First .22Rem Jet pistol I've ever seen. I do not know who owns it, and I am not affiliated with the shop. Just putting the info out there in case anyone is interested.
 
Originally posted by jwc0542:
What kind of accuracy were you getting for each load?
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Don't recall the exact MOA but did make the best pistol shot of my life with that M53... 4' Cottonmouth was crossing a dirt ranch road between two tanks (ponds for you non-Texans) and had stopped to sun himself. My wife and I were cruising looking for Jackrabbits when we spoted the snake. Turned off the LandCrusier, opened the door and from a doorframe rest put a bullet through the snakes head at 60 yards...

Gun had a 1.5 Bushnell Phantom scope and was using a handload of 40 grain Remington bullets and probably Blue Dot powder... Killed several Jacks that day also.

In the mentioned article by Dick Metcalf his grops were all running under 2" at 50 yards from a rest.

Bob
 
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