Ruger Old Army shooting low?

[tacfoley]

My Old Army with adjustable sights shot high irrsepective of load or bullet type. I made a new taller foresight element for it to bring it down to POA.

Mine, too. I`ve had it since 1986, and have only ever shot Pyrodex in it with the one charge that suits it well - 24gr of Pyrodex P and a cast RB. I don`t use a wad, a. because I`m a tight-fisted old fart, and refuse to pay the prices they cost over here, and I often shoot around a hundred shots at a session, and b. I have used E45 as a chamber sealer, an emulsion hand preparation sold in large tubs [Boots, the chemist], since I began BP shooting back in the mid-1970`s in Germany.

Last sunday, my first five shots at 20 yds went into just over an inch and half.

Shooting the same charge with the conical results in the bullet heading up about 12 inches higher, but still very accurately. I`ve never bothered to replace the foresight, in fact, after writing a few times to Viking Arms to get ahold of one, I gave up after two years.

One of our club members has been experimenting with paper cartridges made using Rizla `reds` and a former. Having tried them out, I can say that they work VERY well, but were made using BP, a propellant I am not allowed to keep in my house for insurance reasons.

tac

PS - Please note that all weights and measures in this post are Imperial. If any or all of you are offended by this improper use of dimensional data in a metricised country, please write to your MP. Meanwhile, please convert to metric by using 1 inch = 25.4 millimeters. To save looking it up, there are thirty-six of these `inches` in one `yard`. Grains to grammes is something I`ll let you figure out yourselves.