I know that volumes have been written on the load for an ROA, but I have found that mine seems to like about 30 gr. when I am shooting GOEX. Up until this morning I had been restricting my charge to 23 to 25 gr. I really can't tell you what prompted me to increase the powder charge. But at least today, 30 grains was working pretty good.
I brought along two 1860 Army Colts which I was shooting for the first time. Got both of them on Gunbroker. A polished steel (I don't say stainless steel anymore. I don't want to start any heated conversations on the board about magnetic, nonmagnetic and so forth.) with steel frame from Armi San Paolo was first. It shot pretty well, but one of the nipples is noticably shorter than the rest. Can't depend on ignition in that chamber. I brought it home with powder and ball still in the chamber. I'll try clearing it through the muzzle a little later on. Give the neighbors something to talk about.
No accuracy data on that pistol apart from the fact that I think I can get everything within six to eight inches at 25 yards.
The other 1860 is a brass frame with a real wide cylinder gap. Credit card trick has no meaning on this pistol. You could fit you entire billfold between the cylinder and the barrel. It is an Armi San Marco. I have two Remington clones from ASM and their fit is pretty good. The wedge does not go through the barrel either. It is almost as though the barrel has been replaced.
My thought is to carefully take about eight thousandths off of the back of the barrel where the barrel mates to the frame. I have a milling machine and I think I can do it without messing it up. Any thoughts on this process would be greatly appreciated.
As it is the pistol seems to shoot about four to six inches high at 25 yards. That is very preliminary since I did not shoot it much today. The powder flash blew out between barrel and cylinder so bad that I started a grass fire next to my shooting table. ( No it didn't..That was just a joke.)
I have a new place to shoot about an hour from my house. It is on Knott's Island which is extreme northeast North Carolina. I post some photos next time I go.
I brought along two 1860 Army Colts which I was shooting for the first time. Got both of them on Gunbroker. A polished steel (I don't say stainless steel anymore. I don't want to start any heated conversations on the board about magnetic, nonmagnetic and so forth.) with steel frame from Armi San Paolo was first. It shot pretty well, but one of the nipples is noticably shorter than the rest. Can't depend on ignition in that chamber. I brought it home with powder and ball still in the chamber. I'll try clearing it through the muzzle a little later on. Give the neighbors something to talk about.
No accuracy data on that pistol apart from the fact that I think I can get everything within six to eight inches at 25 yards.
The other 1860 is a brass frame with a real wide cylinder gap. Credit card trick has no meaning on this pistol. You could fit you entire billfold between the cylinder and the barrel. It is an Armi San Marco. I have two Remington clones from ASM and their fit is pretty good. The wedge does not go through the barrel either. It is almost as though the barrel has been replaced.
My thought is to carefully take about eight thousandths off of the back of the barrel where the barrel mates to the frame. I have a milling machine and I think I can do it without messing it up. Any thoughts on this process would be greatly appreciated.
As it is the pistol seems to shoot about four to six inches high at 25 yards. That is very preliminary since I did not shoot it much today. The powder flash blew out between barrel and cylinder so bad that I started a grass fire next to my shooting table. ( No it didn't..That was just a joke.)
I have a new place to shoot about an hour from my house. It is on Knott's Island which is extreme northeast North Carolina. I post some photos next time I go.