Got a hunting trip in 2 weeks, so I loaded up some 143 grain ELD-X for my 6.5, and some 145 grain ELD-X for my .270. I hear a lot of people say they will never use the ELD-X bullets, but I’ve had amazing results with them the last 4 years. Also loaded up a bunch of .223 rounds so if I get lucky and put meat in the freezer early in the week, I can have some fun taking out ‘yotes!
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Good luck on your hunt trip. Hope you get to fill your freezer.
What powder are you using for the.270? I’ve had pretty good results with Re-22 and a Sierra 140 gn BT.
What are you going to use for your.223?
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I'm wracking my brain, trying to figure out how that conversion was done without spending a small fortune. Which is fine if it was, it happens all the time when somebody wants something bad enough. But if you're going to go that far why choose, what at the time was, a second-rate revolver? Why not a Ruger SA? The only thing I can think of is Hawes made a .22 on the same frame. Maybe that made it easier, they drilled and line a .22 barrel, and rechambered a .22 cylinder. You couldn't do it that way with a Ruger. You'd have to make a cylinder and rebarrel it.I pulled a few bullets today. A while back I bought a revolver in 256 winch. magnum . I wasn't really interested in the pistol as I was in the scope that was on it. But after taking the scope off, an old classmate of mine who is now a pretty good gunsmith recognized the pistol as a Hawes Western Marshal.
The HWM were imported from Germany and are basically a clone of the Colt single action. Apparently, at some point this one got converted to a 256 winch. magnum. When I bought it, it came with a decent amount of reloads and some dies.
So after my gunsmith friend did some things to smooth up the action, and function properly, I just got it back a couple days ago. I have decided to put a red dot on it and play around with it a little.
When the gunsmith was shooting the gun , he noticed some cases with bulges. I am a little concerned about shooting someone elses reloads, but keep in mind these reloads were made for this gun (unless the owner possibly had a rifle in this caliber as well??). But when weighing the powder from the pulled cases, I discovered some labeled P (plinking?) had around 9 gr. of powder while otheres had about 16 gr. . In looking in my manuals , it appears that this is probably 2 different powders.
So my next step will be to shoot through a chrony, keeping a sharp eye out for bulges. I did notice in pulling the bullets (using the inertia "hammer" type puller), some were really hard to pull and some really easy. So that could be causing a big difference in pressures as well. Since these reloads are pretty old, and have some corrosion on a few cases, I am thinking that the bullets might be "stuck" in the case.
By the way, the bullets are 60 gr. soft points. The next time I pull bullets, I will probably try to see if there are any percievable differences in the powders.