got the chance to do some more shooting over this last weekend...
10 paces at a target, I shot all 3 loads & see I do need to take some off the front sight, in varying amounts, depending on what I choose for a load... Trailboss was 6-7" low at 10 paces, 4198 was 4-5" low, & 2-3" to the right, & Unique was 3-4" low... there was a very strong cross wind from the south, & I found holding the big gun in the wind, may have opened my groups some... as most groups were strung out horiziontally
so I went back to 60 ft, & shot with my hands rested on sandbags off my bench... groups actually opened up disproportionately to the distance
anyone shoot open top revolver at slightly longer distances, find the hammer "V" rear sight to be the problem??? it seems to work great at cowboy distances, but at 60 ft... something is going on ???
anyway Unique had the best group at 10 paces, & 2nd worst at 60 ft...
will have to file my front sight down, & get groups closer, so when get my chrony out soon, I don't shoot it, ( again
) but all the groups at 10 paces I thought were acceptable at 2-4" without a rest, all had enough pressure to keep the cases clean ( no sooting ) & also low enough pressures that nothing needs sizing yet ( no swelling at the web )... so I could go up a little when trying to dial in the best group sizes later...
so next goal is get it shooting closer to point of aim, & get some speeds on the bullets through the chrony...
BTW... gun functioned perfectly this time, with no hick ups