Ruger Old Army shooting low?

[Wobbly 2]

I know that the 5 1/2 " ROA shoots low with 25 grains, but use 32 grains, and it shoots POA. Maybe worth a try.

[John Bedford]

My Pietta Remmington Texas (.44) bought S/H shot way low too when I first tried it. I had to aim so high (at 25m) that my hand obscured the target!

Messing with loads made little difference - I've now settled on 15g by weight 777 + semolina filler + felt wad + lubed (Liq. Alox) .454 ball.

With the foresight Dremelled down to near enough half its original height (in stages) the gun now shoots to point of aim.

[Smokeless Coal]

I'll second what John said, you dont need the trex. The benefit of 777 is its cleanliness compared to black or pyro, so there is no sense adding unneccesary goop.

Hodgdons recommend just a wonderlubed wad but 777 burns slightly faster and hotter and on advice from a great number of experienced American shooters just lubing the ball with alox is ideal and about as clean as you can get with m/l other than a nitro conversion.

They make these revolvers with the front sight a bit long because the only adjustment the user can do to otherwise fixed sights is shortening it.

But as said dont start filing until you have got your load sorted and getting consistant groups.

[Jim McArthur]

Hello, Smokeless! What have you been up to lately?

Jim

[steve medlock]

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.

[timtriple]

Hi

Thanks for all comments and info.

Today I tried 30gr of 777 and it shot way low!

I then tried 20g of 777 and I hit target board so I guess I need to work on that load and start practising

Tim

[Auto culto]

bend the barrel in a hydraulic press

[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.