25.932" Group, 9.346 MOA @ 265 Yards

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Ed Harris posted this 11 April 2022

Bryan, you are such a handsome devil. Do like your hat.

Believe all of your shots would be on an Army "E" silhouette and all but the two highest shots on the "F" silhouette at your 265 yard range, which closely approximates the 250 meter battlesight zero used for zeroing the Army's M4 carbine!

With hog lard and beeswax lube it would be just the recipe for Afghanistan. Hooah!

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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RicinYakima posted this 07 April 2022

Those of you who remember the TV series "Lonesome Dove", think of the scene where Robert Duvall shoots the guy in the butt at 250 yards with his '73 Winchester. This proves that it could have been done.

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Bryan Austin posted this 07 April 2022

Sort of...last August or Sept I noticed the scope was loose so I had to take it off and lock everything back down. For hunting season I took three shots and zeroed it in for 75 yards. Today at 75 yards, the first shot was 4 3/4" high, the second shot was on the bullseye. I made one adjustment and dumped 6 more on paper at 200 yards. Played with some skeets in the dirt then went for the gong at 265. After a few adjustments, I was back in business!

It was a good day! I think all but maybe two under the shoulder would have made it's mark in a perfect world!!

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 07 April 2022

looks like fun to me ... and

looks like that would knock a portly desperado clean out of the saddle at a fur distance ...

just like them western movies i watched as a kid ...

... load em up agin ! ...

ken

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JeffinNZ posted this 07 April 2022

That's an usual result for you. Have you changed anything?

Cheers from New Zealand

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Bryan Austin posted this 09 April 2022

I thought this was kind of neat!

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Bryan Austin posted this 10 April 2022

The Battle of Königgrätz

Say what? During the time between 14 June and 22 July 1866, the Prussians fought the Austrians. These battles were well observed by the Swiss. It was here that the Swiss decided that they were in need of modern breech-loading weapons.

The Swiss made a Decree that they would find and arm their sharpshooters and Army with breech-loading rifles on 20 July 1866.

During the 6th and 8th days of October, Winchester had already shipped the Model of 1866 to Switzerland for the Swiss Trials. On these two days the aforementioned targets were made.

On the 12th of October the Swiss government proposed an order for 8,000 repeaters for their best outfits but soon changed the proposal to between 90,000 and 110,000 repeaters to arm all of their soldiers. A condition to the contract would be that Winchester would also provide all of the tooling necessary for the 66's to be manufactured in Switzerland. Winchester could not or would not agree and offered some sort of counteroffer with the Henry rifle. The deal fell quiet and eventually Winchester backed off. I am unsure of the details.

The Report To The Commission For The Introduction Of The Breech-Loading Arms was dated Oct 1866 and published in Winchester's 1873 catalog. The information I posted above is not included in the report. The report talks about the Winchester Rifle - A. The Trajectory, B. The Precision and C. The Rapidity of Fire.

Now you know the rest of the story.

https://sites.google.com/view/44winchester/chasing-the-44-40/winchester-history/1866-switzerland-trials

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JeffinNZ posted this 10 April 2022

Bryan! You done got chicken pox!

Cheers from New Zealand

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DBW posted this 12 April 2022

Brian, where did you get the scope and mounts? ............DBW

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shjoe posted this 15 April 2022

nice shootin, tex!

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hporter posted this 27 April 2022

Bryan,

Thank you for sharing that video. It is a lot of work setting all that up, but the end result is very nice.

Your 200 yard target video sequence illustrates why I was interested in the Wyze wi-fi camera. The local camera at the distant target is crystal clear, and the smart phone through the spotting scope shows all the mirage and lack of clarity that we sometimes get looking at distant things through optics.

I ordered the wi-fi camera on Amazon last night, and I'll be darned, a young lady in her personal car dropped it off on my front step at 6am this morning. The world is becoming unrecognizable, it is hard to imagine how fast things move these days.

I look forward to seeing what you are using now, when you have time to post it.

Harold

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hporter posted this 28 April 2022

For some reason, my iPhone keeps dropping it's mobile hotspot signal.

I was able to connect to it once, and make it work on the iPhone wi-fi hotspot. But my phone keeps dropping the signal. So I will have to investigate more.

This thing is tiny!

The reason I was interested in this camera was that it costs $35. So if a glancing bullet takes it out - you are not out much money compared to a go pro.

But I need to overcome the issues with my phone first.

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hporter posted this 29 April 2022

That looks like a good stout configuration. I've modified a couple of my old tripods to hold brass catchers and pellet gun traps. Looks like I have another project to try out. I picked up on your mention of the audio input in your earlier post. That would be a good fool proof way to keep good notes. I'll have to give that a try too.

I still can't get the camera to connect to my phone's wi-fi hot spot, which is the only way to use it in the field or at the range. It connects to the home network wi-fi flawlessly. The manufacturer hasn't responded to my query yet - but has already sent an email asking to rate their response to my question. Putting the cart before the horse.....

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hporter posted this 29 April 2022

I notice that in a lot of Youtube video's, people narrate over the original audio at a later time. I am not sure how to do that, I do know how to do basic video editing - but doing something professional would a long way from where my skill levels are now.

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DBW posted this 07 May 2022

Bryan; I have just received a Uberti Win 1873 32-20 rifle and am waiting for a front scope mount piece that was missing when I received the scope and mounts. All the data I have on the 32-20 states not for use on weak actions, but factory ammo OK.so was not sure how to proceed. Your experience with the 44-40 was helpful and with the pressure data in the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook I am comfortable with developing cast loads for my rifle. I really appreciate the work you have done on the 44-40 and your work on developing loads for the Win. 73. They are such slick actions and are fine for mild loads which can be very effective, as you have made clear in your article. Also until I saw your photos I was not aware of scopes and mounts available for the Win 73 which was the clincher on getting a rifle and cartridge that I have wanted for 50 years. Many thanks.............DBW

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Bryan Austin posted this 10 April 2022

and whiteheads!!!

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Bryan Austin posted this 10 April 2022

I added a few more. The blue dots are the 10 shots John Kort made back in 2011, black powder loads reduced to 44 Henry ballistics. 250 yards

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Bryan Austin posted this 17 April 2022

Thanks Guys, sorry for the long delay, still flying around over on the east coast of NC.

Ed, that's good news, I always wondered what a good qualification was for the M4 carbine.

DBW, let me get home and dig out the info om the mounts.

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Aaron posted this 17 April 2022

Those of you who remember the TV series "Lonesome Dove", think of the scene where Robert Duvall shoots the guy in the butt at 250 yards with his '73 Winchester. This proves that it could have been done.

If Robert Duvall did it, then it is gospel. For sure.

With rifle in hand, I confidently go forth into the darkness.

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Bryan Austin posted this 19 April 2022

Gus has his sights set to about 800 yards

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