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03-23-2011, 09:13 PM
#41
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
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builder459
Actually it can shoot more if you want to play with sabotless. Ive seen guys using 1-20 DISCs shooting a sized 45-250gr FTX faster than most guys can shoot them sabotted in a 50cal. I havent tried it much yet in my 1-30. Pretty much any sabotted hunting bullet a 1-30 can shoot a 1-20 can shoot too. In a 1-30 you may have to drive them a bit faster to get the same stabilizing effect.....which isn't always a bad thing either.
BTW my Savage 50 is a 1-24 too and will handle 225gr to 400gr bullets in sabots fine with subs or smokeless. When in doubt spin it faster.
Actually it can shoot more if you want to play with sabotless. Ive seen guys using 1-20 DISCs shooting a sized 45-250gr FTX faster than most guys can shoot them sabotted in a 50cal. I havent tried it much yet in my 1-30. Pretty much any sabotted hunting bullet a 1-30 can shoot a 1-20 can shoot too. In a 1-30 you may have to drive them a bit faster to get the same stabilizing effect.....which isn't always a bad thing either.
BTW my Savage 50 is a 1-24 too and will handle 225gr to 400gr bullets in sabots fine with subs or smokeless. When in doubt spin it faster.
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03-24-2011, 04:40 AM
#42
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If you want to go with conicals and a 1:30 twist why not go traditional. My Lyman Great Plains Hunter has a 1:32 twist and is very accurate with a 425 gr lead conical and 110 gr 777. The Lyman 57 peep made to go on them is the best peep sight you can get.
03-24-2011, 12:56 PM
#43
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Yucca Valley,Ca
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Chet,after doing a bit of thinking. i have decided to buy a .45 cal GMB LRH barrel and stick it on the old renegade stock i have here. GMB states the twist on the .45 is 1:30. i like the set trigger on the renegade and since it's just sitting here doing nothing lol. why not, only thing i do not like is the weight. other than that it's a win win situation..slam a peep on it and she will be ready to go! Ray
03-26-2011, 02:00 PM
#47
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 4
Never fired conicals from it..never thought of it as a conical
gun. So do you mind sharing your loads? I don't have the time
to go and try a lot of loads so any help would be appreciated.
Oh and good luck on finding that .45
03-26-2011, 02:51 PM
#48
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
I also have a .50 Wolverine and I agree it's a great gun.
Never fired conicals from it..never thought of it as a conical
gun. So do you mind sharing your loads? I don't have the time
to go and try a lot of loads so any help would be appreciated.
Oh and good luck on finding that .45
Never fired conicals from it..never thought of it as a conical
gun. So do you mind sharing your loads? I don't have the time
to go and try a lot of loads so any help would be appreciated.
Oh and good luck on finding that .45
It rocks! on both ends...
03-26-2011, 02:57 PM
#49
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
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builder459
Ray, i have hesitated getting into this one because I honestly do know the twist rate of the GM-LRH 45 cal barrel. I have a couple of 50 GM's and they are 1/28 and I would assume the 45 would be the same thing.... BUT.... GM seems to believe that 1/30 twist (mathematically) is the ideal twist for a 45 and the shorter 45 cal bullets available. So when you look at a .451/488 gr. Bull Shop how that might do in that twist - I am really not sure. If the bullet is made well it should be OK but I just do not know.
Ray, i have hesitated getting into this one because I honestly do know the twist rate of the GM-LRH 45 cal barrel. I have a couple of 50 GM's and they are 1/28 and I would assume the 45 would be the same thing.... BUT.... GM seems to believe that 1/30 twist (mathematically) is the ideal twist for a 45 and the shorter 45 cal bullets available. So when you look at a .451/488 gr. Bull Shop how that might do in that twist - I am really not sure. If the bullet is made well it should be OK but I just do not know.
03-26-2011, 03:19 PM
#50
Nontypical Buck
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Ray, i have hesitated getting into this one because I honestly do know the twist rate of the GM-LRH 45 cal barrel. I have a couple of 50 GM's and they are 1/28 and I would assume the 45 would be the same thing.... BUT.... GM seems to believe that 1/30 twist (mathematically) is the ideal twist for a 45 and the shorter 45 cal bullets available. So when you look at a .451/488 gr. Bull Shop how that might do in that twist - I am really not sure. If the bullet is made well it should be OK but I just do not know.
Ray, i have hesitated getting into this one because I honestly do know the twist rate of the GM-LRH 45 cal barrel. I have a couple of 50 GM's and they are 1/28 and I would assume the 45 would be the same thing.... BUT.... GM seems to believe that 1/30 twist (mathematically) is the ideal twist for a 45 and the shorter 45 cal bullets available. So when you look at a .451/488 gr. Bull Shop how that might do in that twist - I am really not sure. If the bullet is made well it should be OK but I just do not know.