Mid-day shooting break…
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 12:11 am
I had a really early morning today so by noon I’d already been on calls for over 7 hours when I get a call from my son-in-law. He wants to go test the BP he’s been making! He’s got rounds loaded for .41 mag, .44 mag, .45 Colt and his 50-90!!!!! AND, I have a ‘73 that needs testing!
Off to the desert we go to make sulfur smoke.
So we’re both now in love with BP shooting. Damn! Makes these big bore guns behave nicely. Accurate as all hell and velocities were actually darned consistent. Cleanup is not nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be. I think production is moving up to the next level level
And don’t have a picture but I was shooting one of my 4.5” Ubertis gunfighter style (one handed) and it REALLY felt right! Any target within 20 yards was just point and vaporize. If have to try it with my 7.5s next!
But the star or the show was the .357 ‘73! We started warming up with some old relatively mild reloads I needed to burn up, and burn up we did. This gun will make you do ACCURATE mag dumps with a big smile. You can easily have 2-3 empties flying through the air at the same time making cans roll. We ate up a few hundred rounds of ammo in a very short period of time.
The octagon barrel makes for very little recoils and it’s so accurate that we grew weary of close in targets and started looking for targets if opportunity at well over 100 yards (some waaaaaay farther than that). Neither one of us could miss with those old reloads and then we switched to factory .38 RN ammo which almost feels like your shooting a .22. Once you range a target (now I understand why buckhorn sights were so popular) it is a brainless endeavor to score hit after hit at distance.
With 12 rounds of .38 in the magazine, if I ever find myself surrounded by whooping war party they better not show me even an inch of scalp from behind the cactuses or I’ll be turning their heads into canoes easily.
Off to the desert we go to make sulfur smoke.
So we’re both now in love with BP shooting. Damn! Makes these big bore guns behave nicely. Accurate as all hell and velocities were actually darned consistent. Cleanup is not nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be. I think production is moving up to the next level level
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But the star or the show was the .357 ‘73! We started warming up with some old relatively mild reloads I needed to burn up, and burn up we did. This gun will make you do ACCURATE mag dumps with a big smile. You can easily have 2-3 empties flying through the air at the same time making cans roll. We ate up a few hundred rounds of ammo in a very short period of time.
The octagon barrel makes for very little recoils and it’s so accurate that we grew weary of close in targets and started looking for targets if opportunity at well over 100 yards (some waaaaaay farther than that). Neither one of us could miss with those old reloads and then we switched to factory .38 RN ammo which almost feels like your shooting a .22. Once you range a target (now I understand why buckhorn sights were so popular) it is a brainless endeavor to score hit after hit at distance.
With 12 rounds of .38 in the magazine, if I ever find myself surrounded by whooping war party they better not show me even an inch of scalp from behind the cactuses or I’ll be turning their heads into canoes easily.
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