Wheel Guns 5/24/08

Shooting wheelies is a great way to spend a morning. Started with the Single Six. Took a while to work out problems with seeing the front sight. I'm not sure if it was lighting (darker line and targets in the sunlight) or just old eyes. After 100-150 rounds I was shooting well enough to be satisfied (4" groups because I pulled a couple). SV CCI ammo seemed to do better than WalMart Bulk Federal HP's.

After 3-4 rounds getting used to the heavier trigger on the Blackhawk I started doing a fine job of making the center of the target go away. My light unique loads didn't work too well. The heavier unique loads did better, but the W231 (4.0 gr) and Bullseye (3.8 gr) did much better.

Best accuracy was with the GP100. It liked everything, but seemed to do a tad better with Bullseye. I was surprised that I did as well firing it single action or double action.

Brought the S&W police special, which hasn't been fired in 8 months. I shot low, but in the black consistently. This is still a great shooting pistol.

Wonder of wonders was that I fired the 442 with reasonable accuracy at 15 yards. I had been having a tendency to heel when I pulled the stiffer trigger. Seemed to go away yesterday. Most of the rounds were in a 6" shoot'n'see at 15 yards. I may yet figure this thing out.

All round great day. The only problem was that I only had 250 rounds of .38 ammunition.