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07-10-2011 | 12:41 PM

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cayugad

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The other inline... kind of

It rained earlier then just got HOT outside... 88ºs. Humidity was terrible. Bugs were terrible. I mean just a day you should stay inside where it was nice and cool.... Not me.

I sat and looked at the wall trying to decide what I wanted to shoot today. The I looked at the other wall and there was my choice.. the other inline. Well kind of any way. It is a straight forward ignition so that might count.

It is my .44 caliber New Army 1858 Remington target Revolver. This little beauty shoots 20 grains of Jim Shockey Gold 3f powder, a .451 lead roundball, and then fill the cylinder with grease (home made of course) The revolver is a L. L. Pietta sold by Cabela's. A very nice shooting revolver in my opinion.

I used to love to shoot revolver and pistols. But this thing was such a bear to clean until I switched over to Jim Shockey Gold powder.

I got it all set up and had the target at 25 yards.
I was shooting from a set of shooting sticks, basically to support my arm. These big pistols seem a lot heavier then when I was younger.

For the most part, this thing will really hold them if I have a support. Like I would if I were hunting. At 25 yards, I would be confident of hitting my target.. put it that way. But then what fun is that.

When I was a working man, we used to shoot 3 yards draw and fire from the hip. 7 yards.. draw, combat grip point and shoot. Then we'd shoot 15 yards aim free hand combat grip, and finally we would shoot 25 yards from barricade type incidents or prone.

So I decided that if this was used for self defense, studies tell us that most shooting situations are around 0-7 yards. Now I had no desire to fast draw, cross draw at that, from that holster. And I have no intention of every using this as a CCW.. now that it is legal in the state. But shooting at 7 yards can be done safely if the revolver is down and in the c0cked position but do so from a quick pull, point and shoot. After all I am no longer timed.

Granted I did spray a little. After all it has been many years since I used to practice this all the time. But I would have held my own. Most amazing is, I never had to break the revolver down, shooting JSG powder. Had this been black powder or Pyrodex P the revolver would have had to be cleaned a couple times. I am sure I shot sixty rounds today.

Needless to say, I got my smoke fix, was sweating like mad and came in and had to cool off.

This is how I now clean the revolver. I break it down, and then take to the sink and wash it like dishes. I have brushes that fit the barrel, the cylinder, and all the other parts. After that a few patches, some Q-tips and gun oil and it really is not the pain in the you know what it used to be, when I shot these things a lot.

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