Rangereport trying homecast bullets with chrony

[ruhler]

Today I went to the range trying out my cast bullets with both revolver and henry at 25meters to test pressure and speed with a chrony, support with a ordinary pillow.


First out was Ranchdog around 280grain, tumble lubed FNGC bullets, bhn around 12
1463fps on avarage with good precision out of my Henry, in my 10,5" Ruger it gave 1276fps

1502fps with really good precision out of my henry, no sign of pressure


Then i tried my cast Saeco #432 265grain FNGC, bhn around 14, in my Ruger 10,5" revolver since it doesnt fit my Henry
1377fps on avarage, with pretty good precision

1453fps on avarage but didnt perform as good in precision (cant find the picture to present)

Then next was to try my Lee 240grain SWC GC
1742fps on avarage with really good precision in my Henry, think i missed to take a picture of it.

Then I had to try my 44spl load with Lee LFN 200grain bullet, bhn around 14
1184fps with extreme precision (shot out the center of the target 4shot) in my Ruger SBH 10,5"


Result, a fun evening at the range shooting my homecast bullets, no leading at all in the barrels, got some experience to take with me to my loadingbench, I need to crimp a tiny bit more and can try a little higher load on the ranchdog bullet but I really dont need to.

[Henry88]

Excellent shooting and report, exactly what a range report should be. One of the very next toys I want to get is a chrony, especially for the air guns.

[RanchRoper]

Nicely done for sure. Thanks for the detailed report.

[ruhler]

Thanks yeah a Chrony is really helpful, a friend of mine had it setup. He gave me a call and told me to bring my loads and try them out.

I ran the data for the ranchdog bullet through a ballisticprogram and muzzleenergy is about 1970joule,
If I zero at 80meters the theoretical data would be this, ofc will try everything out but it looks good for hunting within range.

25meters 2,9centimeters High with 1766joule @1430fps
50meters, 3,7centimeters High with 1588joule @1358fps
80meters, center with 1400joule @1279fps
100meters, -5,3centimeters with 1330joule @1233fps
120meters, -14centimeters with 1218joule @1187fps

Got info on bullet from here: https://www.noebulletmolds.com/rd/40Cal ... _44Mag.pdf