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Here is a picture of a target I shot today with my Merkel .500 NE double. The load was a 515 grain cast bullet with no gas check (Moyer's Cast Bullets) over 40 grains of AA5744. Velocity was 1305 fps. Damn. And the recoil is non-existent. What a fun load.  Mike | ||
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EXCELLENT RESULTS!!!  Did you use filler? What kind? How far away was the target?Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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 So does this mean the target was 20' away?? NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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You are ready for a bear hunt! | |||
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Range was with the muzzle against the target. No, it was 25 yards. No filler, just 40 grains of AA5744, a CCI magnum primer and the Moyer 515 grain cast bullet. Mike | |||
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You need to stop posting targets like that everyone knows that you can’t get a double to shoot with anything but the regulated load. Good job. Bill Member DSC,DRSS,NRA,TSRA A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one – when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers~ | |||
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Suffice it to say I was astounded. Pleased, but astounded. Mike | |||
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Mike, Great target! I'll have to try some of that in David's 500. Did you buy the bullets online? Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Mike, I've also had great luck with 5744 plinkers in the 450-400. I have used Federal 210's. Although very accurate, I have a fair amount of unburned powder. What about your loads with the magnum primers? I wonder if the hotter primer would reduce the unburned powder. Bob | |||
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BobC, 5744 is a "dirty" powder in my experience. When I looked down the bores yesterday after about eight rounds, there was some particulate in the bore but not much. I ran a boresnake through it once and it looked clean as a whistle. Rusty, here is a link to the Moyer's website: http://www.moyerscastbullets.com/ Mike | |||
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bobc, i've tried plain and magnum primers with 5744 and can tell no difference. in fact with all the Accurate brand powders that i've used i have lots of granules left over........some worse than others. that's my only gripe with them. at the range it's no big deal, but while hunting it can be a problem because i've had the granules keep me from fully seating a cartridge on a follow up shot using a single shot falling block rifle (shiloh). DRSS | |||
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5744 is a great powder for reduced big bore loads using cast bullets w/o filler. I shot a "touching" group with my 510Wells at 50 yards, also good results with 458Lott and 375H&H. Granted, these are out of single barrels at fairly close range but tight groups just the same. NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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