Hi guys, I'm not an expert, I don't shoot much but am looking forward to getting more range and bush time, so any feedback would be great. I'm here in Australia where it's pretty restricted on where and when you can shoot.
I finally took my new 24" lever to the local range this morning. What can I say...it shot beautifully straight from the factory. As my local range is only 25m long I can't say how accurate it will be over longer distances but I managed to stay inside the 8" diameter target with every shot. (Bearing in mind, i haven't shot a long arm in 5 years).
I was using 125gn westcast bullets with 5.5gns of unique pushing them along quite nicely. The action is still a little stiff but I'm sure with more time it will become just right. (Does anyone have a favourite .357 load data to share) Once in every 10 rounds or so the next one to chamber would get hung up inside the action? I'm thinking I was being to kind with the action by cycling it to slow? Any ideas?
There are three bad points if you can call them that, one being I split my thumb nail open when pushing a round into the magazine on the sharp entry point in the side of the action. And second, after pushing 5 into the mag I couldn't fit anymore in(hence the thumb nail). I learnt when I got home that the Italians have a law saying no more than 5 magazine capacity and when I bought mine knowing it was a 12+1 capacity. So after a Dr google consult I found the offending rod inside the tube and removed it in a few minutes flat. Easy for even myself. Thirdly, the case hardening finish scratches so damn easy. I was disappointed in finding scratches after my magazine/thumb problem.
I don't have much experience with the .357mag so if anyone has anything to add, please do. I have a circuit judge coming next week in .44mag so hopefully I can share my experience with that one soon....
Cheers..Baz
I finally took my new 24" lever to the local range this morning. What can I say...it shot beautifully straight from the factory. As my local range is only 25m long I can't say how accurate it will be over longer distances but I managed to stay inside the 8" diameter target with every shot. (Bearing in mind, i haven't shot a long arm in 5 years).
I was using 125gn westcast bullets with 5.5gns of unique pushing them along quite nicely. The action is still a little stiff but I'm sure with more time it will become just right. (Does anyone have a favourite .357 load data to share) Once in every 10 rounds or so the next one to chamber would get hung up inside the action? I'm thinking I was being to kind with the action by cycling it to slow? Any ideas?
There are three bad points if you can call them that, one being I split my thumb nail open when pushing a round into the magazine on the sharp entry point in the side of the action. And second, after pushing 5 into the mag I couldn't fit anymore in(hence the thumb nail). I learnt when I got home that the Italians have a law saying no more than 5 magazine capacity and when I bought mine knowing it was a 12+1 capacity. So after a Dr google consult I found the offending rod inside the tube and removed it in a few minutes flat. Easy for even myself. Thirdly, the case hardening finish scratches so damn easy. I was disappointed in finding scratches after my magazine/thumb problem.
I don't have much experience with the .357mag so if anyone has anything to add, please do. I have a circuit judge coming next week in .44mag so hopefully I can share my experience with that one soon....
Cheers..Baz